Russia Ukraine war, page-237929

Correct. “No formal or written undertakings given”, but there were discussions, right.

If nobody could have predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union, 9 months out from the conversations I have provided the evidence for, would you, following that logic, find it impossible to have predicted back in 1954 the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Ukrainian independence, almost 4 decades later?

1954, was the year the ownership of Crimea was slightly changed. Do you believe that such a decision would have been made, if the government and the people of the Soviet Union knew what was to come?