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#UKRAINE: CRIMEA BLAME. COLONEL JEFF MCCAUSLAND , USA (RETIRED) @MCCAUSLJ @CBSNEWS @DICKINSONCOL

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🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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#UKRAINE:  CRIMEA BLAME. COLONEL JEFF MCCAUSLAND , USA (RETIRED) @MCCAUSLJ @CBSNEWS @DICKINSONCOL
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0:00.0

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0:06.8

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0:13.0

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0:18.7

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0:34.9

I'm John Battsu with my colleague, Colonel Jeff McCausen, CBS News, Dickinson College,

0:39.5

Diamond Sixth Leadership and Strategy, the negotiation between Washington and the Kremlin. What we know is that there was meant to be a meeting attended by the

0:47.1

Secretary of State and perhaps Mr. Whitkoff in London. That did not happen, although the meeting,

0:52.7

I believe, went forward. The news came that Mr.

0:55.2

Whitkoff was on his way to Moscow. He might already be there to talk directly to Mr. Putin.

1:01.0

Something to do with movement in the negotiation, but the President of the United States has now

1:06.9

spoken out saying there is a deal, but it's rejected by Zelensky, not Putin, Zelensky.

1:15.6

Jeff, my scorecards are all marked up here. I need your help. The deal involved Crimea. Which way was to Crimea going and who rejected what?

1:24.6

The way the deal seemed to be going was this bilateral negotiation between the United

1:30.1

States and the Russians, really over the heads of the Ukrainians and the Russians then trying

1:34.7

to urge us to impose an agreement upon Ukraine, which is still, I think, in the cards, at

1:39.4

least as far as the Trump administration is concerned.

1:42.6

That particular agreement would have forced the Ukrainians to acknowledge the sovereignty

1:46.9

of Russia over Crimea, which they occupied in 2014.

1:52.9

It probably also forced the Ukrainians to publicly decide that they would not become

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