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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Trump thought Ukraine ‘must be part of Russia’ during presidency, book says

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Author David Sanger writes that Trump’s view of Ukraine was ‘essentially identical’ to that of Vladimir Putin. Photograph: Pablo Martínez Monsiváis/AP

As president, Donald Trump “made it very clear” that he thought Ukraine “must be part of Russia”, his former adviser Fiona Hill says in a new book about US national security under threat from Russia and China.

“Trump made it very clear that he thought, you know, that Ukraine, and certainly Crimea, must be part of Russia,” Hill, senior director for European and Russian affairs on the US national security council between 2017 and 2019, tells David Sanger, a New York Times reporter and author of New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West.

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