Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last month challenged a reporter to locate Ukraine on a blank map. While visiting Kyiv in late January, Pompeo described Ukraine in a colorful manner, as “the hinge of freedom.” The country, he said, “sits right on the edge between Europe and Russia.” Yet, mixing his metaphors, he said Ukraine is “firmly anchored in the West.”
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(FILES) A Ukrainian mother wearing a national flag holds her daughter wearing a European Union flag as they attend a gathering in the iconic Maidan square in Kyiv, to celebrate the signing of a historic EU-Ukraine association agreement, on June 27, 2014.
