We knew in 2011 Putin would attack Ukraine, says Bill Clinton

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Who trusts him? Enough of this rampant trust deficit.

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Vladimir Putin told Bill Clinton three years before his 2014 attack on Ukraine that he was not bound by the Budapest Memorandum guaranteeing the country's territorial integrity, according to the former US president.

Clinton said he had talked to the Russian president at the 2011 World Economic Forum in Davos, where Putin brought up the issue of the memorandum, under which Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan agreed in 1994 to give up the nuclear arsenal they inherited on their territory from the Soviet Union, in return for assurances their sovereignty would be respected "Within existing borders".

"Putin said to me: ' I know Boris agreed to go along with you and John Major and Nato, but he never got it through the Duma. We have our extreme nationalists too. I don't agree with it and I do not support it and I'm not bound by it.'."I knew from that day forward, it was just a matter of time," the former president said of Putin launching an attack.

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