"It is my firm belief we have, in the media, not done a very good job of explaining what is going on there. Who are russian separatists and what do they represent? Well i don't blame you for not doing a good job, because it's a terrible mess," he says. "There was authentic disagreement in ukraine about yanukovitch."
Vladimir Putin says Ukraine isn’t a country. He’s wrong.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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