Former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk on Sunday lashed out at Donald Trump for his assertion that he may consider recognizing Crimea as part of Russian Federation if he wins the White House.
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In an interview with “Fox News Sunday”, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton lashed out at Trump for urging Russian Federation to release emails held on her private server while serving as US’ top diplomat.
The Republican presidential nominee has praised Putin, saying he was a stronger leader than U.S. President Barack Obama, a Democrat. “You can mark it down”. In Russia, the gesture is best remembered for the misspelling of the word in Russian, while the reset itself failed in the face of Putin’s return as Russian president in 2012 and Russia’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine two years later.
“He was saying very good things about me”.
When asked by Stephanopoulos why the GOP softened its platform on Ukraine, Trump responded that he “wasn’t involved with that”. You have now viewed your allowance of free articles.
“For Trump to both encourage that and to praise Putin despite what appears to be a deliberate effort to try to affect the election I think raises national security issues”, she said.
“When Putin goes out and tells everybody, and you talk about relationship, but he says, ‘Donald Trump is gonna win. You can put it down”, prompting some to wonder if the billionaire was unaware that Russian Federation annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, drawing sanctions from the United States and European Union. “So with all of these strong ties to NATO, Ukraine is a mess”, Trump said.
The Kremlin has repeatedly denied involvement in the hacking incident and said it does not favor any candidate in the November 8 usa election.
“OK – well, he’s there in a certain way”, Trump replied. “Crimea has been taken”.
“And as far as the Ukraine is concerned, it’s a mess”. And that’s under the Obama’s administration with his strong ties to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. “Don’t blame Donald Trump for that”. But I have no relationship with him.
“Today, (Trump) gamely repeated Putin’s argument that Russian Federation was justified in seizing the sovereign territory of another country by force”. I said something good about him when (broadcaster) Larry King was on.
Stephanopoulos also pressed Trump on changes to the Republican platform removing calls for the provision of lethal weapons so the people of Ukraine can defend themselves, which Trump said he had nothing to do with. “I said, ‘I’m gonna disavow that?’ But when Putin says good things, and when we have a possibility of having a good relationship with Russian Federation, I think that’s good”.
“We know that Russian intelligence services hacked into the DNC and we know that they arranged for a lot of those emails to be released and we know that Donald Trump has shown a very troubling willingness to back up Putin, to support Putin”, Clinton said.
“Such statement by Mrs Clinton are part of the pre-election rhetoric and do not include any specifics”, Mr Peskov said.
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In the wake of the annexation, NATO suspended the NATO-Russia Council, which led to the alliance’s worst relations with Moscow since the end of the Cold War.
