US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo won’t be winning Ukraine’s ‘friend of the year’ award. A week after he told an NPR reporter that Americans don’t care about the country, he allegedly told a Kiev audience to forget about Crimea.
That’s according to Novoye Vremya (NV), an influential Ukrainian news outlet, which quotes Pompeo as saying: “Crimea is lost [for Ukraine]. World leaders understand this. Ukraine has given up Crimea, and Russia is not [a state] from which something [like this] can be taken away.” NV says the reality check was delivered at a private meeting last Friday, in response to a question from a Tatar activist.
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