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Ukraine-U.S. Relations
What You Need To Know:
✅ US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will meet in Washington ahead of the G20 summit taking place in Hamburg on July 7-8.
✅ One of the key questions surrounding this meeting is how US policy on Ukraine will develop under the current administration: “I would like to see a stronger American policy, I believe we should provide defensive weapons to Ukraine. I think it would be a good thing for Mr. Poroshenko to ask for that, and would be an even better thing for the United States to agree,” John Herbst, Director of Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Centre told Hromadske.
✅ US-Russia relations under the Trump administration is another important issue for Ukraine, given concerns about Russia’s influence over the new US president. However, as John Herbst noted, “I think it will be hard for there to be a major improvement in US-Russian relations unless Mr. Putin is willing to step back from the aggressive policies he has been pursuing”.
Hromadske spoke to John Herbst, Director of Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Centre and former US Ambassador to Ukraine (2003-2006) in Kyiv on June 17.
