say but he was basically a a puppet of russia, of vladimi russia had paid for his political rise and for his political party. they had worked to install him in power. they totally controlled him. he was theirol guy. that was how russia controlled ukraine. they controlled the ukrainian president. they installed him in power and they told him what to do, and he did it. and russia, of course, didn t want ukraine to have better economic ties to the west. they didn t want ukraine to have any ties to the west. they wanted ukraine to only be tied to russia. and so when ukraine had the opportunity to sign-on to this pro-european trade deal russia didn t want thempe to do it, an russia s guy in ukraine, this very corrupt, very compromised pro-russian president he said he
0 it was actually 108 people in the heavenly hundred. the youngest of them was just 16 years old. it all happened as the combination of protests that had started the previous november. people are protesting in ukraine. because the government of that country had had the chance to sign on to a big trade deal with europe, a deal that was expected to have big economic benefits for ukraine, just episode bring ukraine closer to europe, and closer to the west. people in ukraine bought weird forward to it. this is a popular thing that they re very much wanted. but the president of ukraine at the time he decided he wasn t going to do it and he basically decided that because russia didn t want him to do it in 2014 the president of ukraine and i know this sounds rude to say but he was basically a a puppet of russia, of vladimi russia had paid for his political rise and for his political party. they had worked to install him in power. they totally controlled him. he was theirol guy. that was how