LIZ: WE ARE JUST GETTING THIS
BREAKING NEWS.
RUSSIAN OFFICIALS JUST RELEASED
A STATEMENT SAYING UKRAINIAN
NAVAL VESSELS IGNORED WARNING
SHOTS ON THE BLACK SEA
YESTERDAY, FORCING RUSSIAN
VESSELS TO OPEN FIRE ON AND
SEIZE THE THREE WATERCRAFT.
MOMENTS AGO, PRESIDENT TRUMP
SAYING HE'S NOT HAPPY ABOUT THE
SITUATION.
THE RUSSIANS MAINTAIN UKRAINE
ILLEGALLY ENTERED RUSSIAN
TERRITORIAL WATERS IN THE KERCH
STRAIT, THE MAJOR CHOKE POINT
BETWEEN THE BLACK SEA AND THE
SEA OF AZOD WHICH UP UNTIL NOW
HAS BEEN CONSIDERED A PASSAGEWAY
BOTH COUNTRIES HAVE USED.
YOU CAN SEE IT DEVELOPING RIGHT
THERE.
A RUSSIAN COAST GUARD VESSEL
RAMMING ONE OF THE UKRAINIAN
BOATS, THEN SEIZING THEM AND
SOME 28 SAILORS.
UP TO SIX UKRAINIAN SEAMEN WERE
REPORTEDLY INJURED.
THIS RACHETING UP TENSIONS
BETWEEN THE MEETING BETWEEN
PRESIDENT TRUMP AND VLADIMIR
PUTIN AT THE G20 IN ARGENTINA.
THE GUARDIAN SAYING FORGET
BREXIT, UKRAINE IS THE BIGGEST
THREAT TO EUROPE.
WITH US IN A FOX BUSINESS
EXCLUSIVE, FROM MOSCOW, THE MAN
SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS PUTIN'S
BANKER, ANDREY KOSTIN, CHAIRMAN
AND PRESIDENT OF VTB, RUSSIA'S
SECOND LARGEST BANK.
BOTH HAVE PERSONALLY BEEN
SANCTIONED.
ANDREY, THE WESTERN WORLD IS
SAYING THIS IS RUSSIAN
AGGRESSION AND MUST STOP
IMMEDIATELY AS IT PERTAINS TO
WHAT HAPPENED AT THE KERCH
STRAIT.
IS THIS RUSSIAN AGGRESSION?
>> THAT'S VERY STRANGE TO HEAR.
THE ONLY PERSON WHO BENEFITS
FROM THIS IS MR. POROSHENKO
BECAUSE HE HAS PROBLEMS WITH HIS
ELECTIONS BUT DEFINITELY THIS
HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIAN
AGGRESSION.
IT WAS PROVOCATION, THAT'S QUITE
CLEAR.
LIZ: POROSHENKO THE PRESIDENT OF
UKRAINE.
YOU SAY IT'S HIS WAY OF SECURING
THE VOTE THAT'S COMING UP.
I HAVE TO EL THE YO
I HAVE TO TE THE YO
I HAVE TO TELLHE YO
I HAVE TO TELL E YO
I HAVE TO TELL YOYO
I HAVE TO TELL YOU, THE WORLD IS
WATCHING.
WE HAVE VIDEO OF A RUSSIAN SHIP
RAMMING THE UKRAINIAN TUGBOAT
WHERE BOTH COUNTRIES ARE ALLOWED
TO PASS THROUGH, TO NAVIGATE.
WE ARE JUST DAYS FROM THE G20.
HOW DO YOU FORESEE THIS ALTERING
WHAT WAS TO BE AN AGENDA BETWEEN
VLADIMIR PUTIN AND DONALD TRUMP
ON OIL PRICES AND RENEGOTIATING
THAT 1987 INTERMEDIATE RANGE
NUCLEAR FORCES TREATY, BECAUSE
THE PRESIDENT SAYS HE'S GOING TO
WITHDRAW FROM IT BECAUSE THE
RUSSIANS ARE CHEATING.
HOW DOES THIS CHANGE THIS
AGENDA?
>> LIZ, WE HAD IT BEFORE.
BEFORE WE DECIDED TO DISCUSS
SOMETHING BETWEEN YOUR PRESIDENT
AND OUR PRESIDENT OR RIGHT AFTER
THAT, SOMETHING HAPPENED, WHICH
PREVENT ANY IMPROVEMENT OF
RELATIONS BETWEEN OUR TWO
COUNTRIES.
ON ONE HAND, MR. TRUMP IS SAYING
TO MR. PUTIN HE WOULD LIKE TO
SEE BETTER RELATIONSHIP WITH
RUSSIA, BUT SOON AFTER THE
MEETINGS, THE NEW SANCTIONS, THE
NEW ACCUSATION SO WE JUST GET
USED TO THIS.
LIZ: DO YOU NOT EXPECT MUCH,
THEN, BUT SANCTIONS WERE SURELY
GOING TO BE ON THE TABLE DURING
THE PUTIN/TRUMP MEETING AND
THESE WERE SANCTIONS PUT INTO
PLACE STARTING BACK IN 2014,
WHEN RUSSIA AND ITS MILITANTS
HAD SNAPPED OFF CRIMEA.
YOU PERSONALLY HAVE BEEN
SANCTIONED WHICH MEANS FOR NOW,
YOUR ABILITY TO DO BUSINESS WITH
THE U.S. IS FROZEN.
HOW ARE YOU CONDUCTING BUSINESS
WITH THIS FREEZE?
>> WELL, YOU LIVE AND YOU THINK
I WILL DIE, I WILL DIE, I WILL
DIE EVERY DAY, YOU GET CRAZY.
IF EVERY DAY SOMEBODY IS SAYING
YOU ARE UNDER SANCTION, YOU ARE
UNDER SANCTION, YOU JUST ACCEPT
IT AS A PACK OF LIES.
I'M 62, I'M TOO OLD TO BE AFRAID
OF ANYTHING IN THIS LIFE, I
THINK.
SO FROM THIS POINT OF VIEW, I
CAN'T INFLUENCE THE SITUATION.
M
I'M A BANKER.
I ALWAYS CONDUCTED GOOD AND FAIR
BUSINESS WITH ALL AMERICAN
BANKS.
LIZ: RUSSIA, THOUGH, IS
INCREASINGLY ISOLATED.
AS YOU AND YOUR BANK HAVE BEEN
SANCTIONED, NOW YOU HAVE BEEN
DISINVITED FROM THE WORLD
ECONOMIC FORUM IN DAVOS.
YOU HAVE BEEN GOING FOR YEARS.
WE MET THERE.
I THINK I CONDUCTED NO FEWER
THAN SIX INTERVIEWS OVER THE
YEARS WITH YOU.
HOW DID THE DAVOS PEOPLE TELL
YOU ARE NOT WELCOME?
>> LOOK, I WAS RECENTLY AT THE
APEC MEETING AND I CAN TELL YOU,
MOST OF THE PARTICIPANTS WERE ON
SIDE OF CHINESE.
DAVOS IS STILL TWO MONTHS TO GO
SO WE SHALL SEE.
LIZ: YOU JUST SAID MOST OF THE
COUNTRIES WERE ON CHINA'S SIDE,
NOT THE U.S., BUT WOULD VLADIMIR
PUTIN STAND BY IF HE FELT THAT
ANOTHER COUNTRY WAS CONDUCTING
UNFAIR TRADE AND WE ARE PUSHING
YOU ON THIS BECAUSE IT REALLY
MATTERS TO PRESIDENT TRUMP AND
HE'S PUT A MAJOR FLAG IN THE
GROUND ON THIS ONE IN SAYING WE
HAVE GOT TO GET A BETTER DEAL
WHEN IT COMES TO TRADE, A FAIRER
DEAL, WITH CHINA.
WOULDN'T RUSSIA STAND UP FOR THE
SAME THING IF IT FELT THERE WERE
PROBLEMS WITH THE WAY FAIR TRADE
WAS BEING CONDUCTED?
>> I AGREE WITH MR. TRUMP ON ONE
THING.
HE PUTS AMERICA FIRST.
WE WOULD LIKE TO PUT RUSSIA
FIRST.
THAT'S TRUE.
EVERYTHING ELSE, YOU KNOW, WE
CAN TALK HOURS ABOUT WHO'S
RIGHT, WHO'S WRONG.
LIZ: IF YOU ASK THE UKRAINIAN
PRESIDENT, WHICH WE DID JUST A
YEAR AGO, HE WOULD SAY UKRAINE
FIRST.
THIS SITUATION IS FAR FROM OVER.
HERE'S WHAT HE SAID.
WILL YOU GIVE CRIMEA BACK?
>> WE WILL GIVE CRIMEA BACK.
LIZ: WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THAT?
>> WELL, I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST
THE STATEMENT THAT MR.
POROSHENKO WOULD SAY IT'S
UKRAINE FIRST BUT IF CRIMEA IS
PART OF UKRAINE BY BRINGING THE
SHIPS TO THE TERRITORY, TO THE
SEA, BUT IF TOMORROW HE DECIDES
TO BRING TANKS TO CRIMEA, SAYING
IT IS UKRAINIAN TERRITORY,
WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN?
JUST IMAGINE.
LIZ: THIS WEEK I WAS SUPPOSED TO
ATTEND YOUR RUSSIA CALLING
CONFERENCE, THE VTB IS PUTTING
ON, THEN THEY REASSIGNED ME TO
THE G20.
LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT.
HAVE ANY U.S. BANKERS WITHDRAWN?
WHO'S COMING?
DO YOU GET A SENSE IT'S HARDER
WHEN YOU HAVE SANCTIONS ON YOU
TO DRAW INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
LEADERS?
>> THIS YEAR, WE EXPECT MORE
THAN 2,000 GUESTS FROM 53
COUNTRIES AND AS FAR AS I
REMEMBER, 39 ARE PEOPLE FROM THE
UNITED STATES.
THEY REPRESENT DIFFERENT
INVESTMENT FUNDS.
LIZ: THANK YOU, AS ALWAYS.
WE APPRECIATE THE RUSSIAN