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In the may 29th letter from president trump. we could give him no firm answer. after our meeting with president zelensky, ambassador volker and i traveled to the front line in northern dambas to receive a briefing from the commander on the line of contact. arrivinging at the briefing in the military headquarters, the commander thanked us for the security assistance. but i ways a ware this assistance was on hold, which made me uncomfortable. ambassador volker and i could see the armed and hostile russian-led forces on the other side of the damaged bridge across the line of contact. russian-led ...

Also held pemd pending announcement by president zelensky if before that, i had only understood from ambassador sondland that the white house meeting was conditioned. and at this time, after i heard of this conversation, it struck me -- it was clear to me that security assistance was also being held. >> you said previously that you were alarmed to learn this. why were you alarmed? >> it's one thing to try to leverage a meeting in the white house. it's another thing, i thought, to leverage security assistance, security assistance to a country at war, dependent on both the

Joined the call, ambassador volker separately told the u.s. participants he ambassador volker planned to be express wit president zelensky in a one-on-one meeting in toronto on july 2nd. in that meeting, ambassador volker planned to make clear what president zelensky should do to get the white house meeting. i did not understand what this meant. but ambassador volker said he would relay that president trump wanted to see rule of law, transparency but also specifically cooperation on investigations to get to the bottom of things. once president zelensky joined the call the conversation was focu...

Eager to end this war and they are eager to end it in a way that the russians leave their territory. these negotiation, like all negotiations, are difficult. ukrainians would like to be able to negotiate from a position of strength or at least more strength than they now have. part of that strength. part of the ability to negotiate against the russians, with the russians for an end to the war in dambas depends on the united states and other international support. if we withdraw or suspend or threat on the withdraw, our security systems, that's a message to the ukrainians, but it's at least as ...