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slack on messaging, according to some in diplomatic circles, as the polling on Americans sentiments about Ukraine support are reflective of a White House that has failed to adequately sell to the American people why the United States is supporting Ukraine in the first place, according to John Herbst,

This fits the pattern of our policy toward Russia in the Trump administration, said John Herbst, a Russia scholar at the Atlantic Council. If you just look at policy, this administration has taken steps the Obama administration was not willing to, such as supplying antitank missiles to Ukraine. T

And with Russia continuing to fuel the conflict in eastern Ukraine, arms smuggling will continue to pose a threat, argues John Herbst of the Washington-based Atlantic Council. He says the Donbas could become more of a risk than Transdniester, a breakaway region in Moldova that is backed by Moscow, a

One of the authors, former US ambassador John Herbst, told me: "There has to be some push back on the ground so Mr Putin understands that a diplomatic solution is in his interests too. His statements against the Baltic states show his goals are greater than Ukraine."

Its not a welcome development, said John Herbst, director of the Atlantic Councils Eurasia Center and a former US ambassador to Ukraine. There is a lot to be concerned about. Government unity is important for dealing with the current security dangers, but this is something for Ukrainians to wor

According to Agentstvo, the former U.S. ambassador who also suffered a similar illness is John Herbst. Once the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine and Uzbekistan, he is currently the senior director of Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center.

This is bad news for our national interests, said John Herbst, who served as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2003 to 2006 and now heads the Eurasia Center in Washington. It is in our interest to help Ukraine make things difficult for Putin in Donbas. All we need to do is help them, send arms, mai

"President Putin's aggression in Ukraine [and Syria] has led to international sanctions and at least a partial isolation internationally,"John Herbst, the US ambassador to Ukraine from 2003 to 2006 and former director of the Center for Complex Operations at National Defense University in Washington

Putin thinks the annexation was an unvarnished success and hes using that to pump up his reputation with the Russian people, said John Herbst, director of the Atlantic Councils Eurasia Center, who served as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2003 to 2006.

art; and by nature, cautious, meticulous, very much someone who follows the rule book. And with great integrity, so she follows instructions and stays within policy guidelines, but shes also not going to do anything that she believes is wrong, said John Herbst, a former ambassador to Ukraine. Yovan

She is a top-notch diplomat, careful, meticulous, whip smart, and unlikely to have badmouthed Trump, either to Ukrainian officials or her colleagues, said John Herbst, a predecessor as ambassador in Ukraine who worked alongside Yovanovitch there in the early 2000s.

I think it would be useful to raise. I dont think Secretary Tillerson needs to make it a major point, said John Herbst, a foreign policy expert at the Atlantic Council who served as ambassador to Ukraine under the George W. Bush administration. Moscows been doing this without a serious response

By constantly coming to Trumps defense, they are actually making Trumps situation worse, says John Herbst, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and Eurasia analyst at the Atlantic Council. Undermining Trumps position undermines their own in advancing their policy goals. Moscows endgame is having

Whether Putin's acknowledgement of Russia's role in eastern Ukraine will lead to greater determination to implement all terms of the Minsk agreementis unclear, but he apparently hoped to signal that he will cooperate, said John Herbst, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine whos now at the Atlantic C

"It is better to tactically single him out than to blame 'nasty Russian policy,'" said John Herbst, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who informally advises Republican candidates. "That way you don't have to alienate the whole country."

Even so, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk are products of "the old system" and have been slow to move on necessary reforms, said John Herbst, a former ambassador to Ukraine who is now at the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank.

"These appointments raise expectations that Poroshenko and (Prime Minister Arseniy) Yatsenyuk are going to move swiftly against corruption and on other key issues that will transform Ukraine's economy and governance," said John Herbst of the Washington-based Atlantic Council think tank.

The Kremlin hope that the east would rise against the center, against the interim government in Kiev and now Mr. Poroshenko, has proved to be a false hope because the people of eastern Ukraine want to be part of a unitary Ukraine, they do not want to be part of Russia, John Herbst, a former U.S. a

s the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, John Herbst, said of Mr. Putin in an interview last month, if he knows that Western antitank and antiaircraft equipment are part of Ukraines military arsenal, the price of an invasion rises dramatically. Ukraine does not ask for American soldiers to defend