“Putin is scared of political solidarity”: Former president of Ukraine Yushchenko on the EU's help to Ukraine and our future

Viktor Yushchenko, who served as president of Ukraine from 2005 to 2010, was a central figure in Ukraine’s democratic trajectory. He played a key role in the Orange Revolution of late 2004, a precursor to the Maidan Revolution ten years later that fundamentally changed the country’s future. On my trip to Ukraine in early October with a group of international journalists, the former president spent three hours with us in his office discussing the country’s path since then and how Russia’s yoke over Europe’s breadbasket continues to imperil its, and our, future.