In December 2019 I was sitting at a round table in the Élysée Palace opposite Putin. The night before, the President of Ukraine had requested my presence at negotiations on the vital question of the transit of Russian gas through our country.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Yuriy Vitrenko: Looking Putin in the eye
From left: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron, Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend a Normandy Four meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on Dec. 9, 2019, to negotiate peace in the Donbas.
