Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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"The place where people died in great numbers was Slobozhanshchyna, so Kharkiv, northern Donetsk and Luhansk provinces, as well as Poltava. So they were as much Ukraine as any other part of Ukraine. They suffered the worst of the Holodomor. And again, I think that was an artificial distinction, which should have been put to rest after 2014"

Our own Julia Tymoshenko, head of Ukraïner, sat down with American diplomat George Kent for a wide-ranging conversation about American support for Ukraine, the major corruption scandal dubbed “Mindichgate,” and why Ukraine’s eastern regions and Crimea are integral to the country.

Watch the full interview on the Ukraїner in English YouTube channel.

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