Former President Bill Clinton Feels Responsible for Negotiating Ukraine's Giving Up Nuclear Weapons

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00:00President Putin did not support the agreement President Yeltsin made never

00:10to interfere with Ukraine's territorial boundaries. An agreement he made because

00:14he wanted Ukraine to give up their nuclear weapons. They were afraid to give

00:20them up because they thought that's the only thing that protected them from an

00:23expansionist Russia. When it became convenient to him, President Putin broke

00:29it and first took Crimea. And I feel terrible about it because Ukraine is a

00:38very important country and I feel a personal stake because I got them to

00:43agree to give up their nuclear weapons and none of them believed that Russia

00:48would have pulled this stunt if Ukraine still had their weapons. So I think what

00:54Mr. Putin did was very wrong and I believe the Europe and the United States

01:00should continue to support Ukraine. There may come a time when the Ukrainian

01:06government believes that they can think of a peace agreement they could live with,

01:13but I don't think the rest of us should cut and run on them.