Viktor Yushchenko

Another 62% say that they are ready to endure the war as long as necessary.

if you're hearing reports that they're ukrainians they just want to give up they just want peace they just want the war to end it doesn't look that way to me here's rt and i'm showing you that it's an rt because of this line here he did not specify whether king leonidas took cocaine though what are you talking about well this is former president yushchenko saying ukrainians are today's 300 spartans and here's here's him saying that

Yeah,

why? Why is he saying that? He's saying that because they're defending the front for Europe.

What's it like meeting Putin? What was he like, just one-on-one?

So I've actually never met Putin.

The president did that meeting.

I've talked to him on the phone a number of times.

For example, Leonid Kukma was prosecuted for murder.

Viktor Yushchenko was prosecuted, I'm sorry, investigated for bribery.

Viktor Yanukovych was convicted of treason and sentenced to 13 years in prison.

And Petro Poroshenko was prosecuted for treason as well.

Uh, maybe once he left the presidency, the second Czech presidency was to some extent weaker because, you know, until 1997, despite all his differences with Klaus, he was able somehow to moderate this, to cooperate, not to engaged in a mortal fight.

You know, what I usually argue, what did not happen in the Ukraine once the Orange Revolution has won, then Yushchenko with Tymoshenko immediately started to fight each other, and thus Ukraine missed the unique window of opportunity when Russia was still weak to do something substantially.

Uh, in our case, this most important, uh, period, you know, 1990 to '97 when we fixed everything important, transition to democracy, transition of the mar- uh, of, of, uh, the, the economy into the market, into the privatization-

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Yushchenko?

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Yushchenko.

Yushchenko.

The one, yeah, whose face was modeled by-

That was 2004

So he didn't hit anything.

Don't you just fucking hate Trump? Don't you just fucking hate that piece of shit? Ex-Ukrainian President Yushchenko wrote an open letter to Trump saying Ukraine's desire for peace is not a willingness to surrender.

The problem is it was a very well thought out and long letter.

And Trump's attention span is just short of a goldfish.

You can go online and read it.

President Yushchenko, C-H-E-N-K-O.

I just don't have time to put it in here, and I'm sure you're, you know, you might be a goldfish too.

Who knows? The most recent pro-Russian turn of the U.S.

It's not always the Mandela's and Havel's of the world.

You know, the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, for instance, was led by this guy, Viktor Yushchenko, who used to work in the old semi-autocratic regime.

Same in Serbia in 2000, going way back.

But you asked a different question, which is, I don't have a good answer.

They're not asking you to do that, by the way, so why do it? And when you do that, I think it's a sign of weakness.

I think it's a signal.

I mean, the guy I know the best is Putin.

I've dealt with him.

Uh, David Miliband came, came, came out to Kyiv about a week after I got there, just after Russia had invaded Georgia, so he was coming out to show support for the Ukrainians, a very good move.

And, um, the Ukrainian politicians, it was Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was, uh, in power at the time, and President Yushchenko, and Tymoshenko really hated the head of the party of the regions.

It was a guy called Yanukovych, who later became president.

And in order to stop Yanukovych from meeting David Miliband, she completely changed the whole program, literally as we were on the way to the airport to pick up David Miliband.

Um, and, uh, so the entire program was in complete chaos from start to finish, but didn't mean it wasn't a great visit, and, uh, I, I admired, uh, Miliband's ability to deal with the total chaos that he confronted.

And of course, Yulia Tymoshenko, quite a, a startling personality, interesting person to meet, as well as Yushchenko, who is the guy you may remember who had that terribly ravaged face after being poisoned almost certainly-

Oh, yeah.

Of course

And it's very interesting that when you do go down the biographies of the key players in Ukrainian politics today, and I'll just give you five names.

Um, Yanuk- Yanukovych, Yushchenko, uh, Yulia Tymoshenko, uh, Poroshenko, and Zelensky.

Those five names.

Every one of them grew up in a Russian-speaking household-

So they're all, they're all multimillionaires, all of them.

Um, Yanukovych is in exile in a, a dacha or an estate in Sochi.

Yushchenko's somewhere in a village near, near Kiev.

Uh, Tymoshenko's still around somewhere in Ukraine.