I think that gave Vladimir Putin a lot of encouragement that the United States was, you know, certainly not the Trump administration was going to be supporting Ukraine.
Marie Yovanovitch: “I think that gave Vladimir Putin a lot of encouragement that the United States was, you know, certainly not the Trump…”
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Yovanovitch discusses how Trump's handling of U.S.-Ukraine relations may have emboldened Putin.
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