How far we've come back to the center is one thing that Russia and Putin was pushing is they wanted all the land that a Russian soldier had set foot on, which would have been absolutely ridiculous. And so we're pushing back. We always knew we were going to lose part of [Donbas]. Dumbass. We understood that Zelensky, I don't think wanted that at all. In fact, I know he didn't want it. We had had conversations about that Kyiv was never going to be able to be put back into Ukraine. (00:59–01:02)
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Asserts that losing part of Donbas was anticipated in negotiations.
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