I sure didn’t expect I’d get the chance to meet the president of Ukraine, but it happened. Like so many events here, it just casually popped up out of the blue—like, hey, do you want to go grab some coffee? So one day I’m sitting in the office and my counterpart breaks from her phone conversation and asks, “John, would you like to go see Poroshenko on Wednesday?”
“Sure,” I answered.
“He says, ‘da.'”
And just like that I was on the list.
Turns out President Petro Poroshenko was coming to Mykolaiv for a working visit and to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Ukrainian Marine Corps. Since
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