the country was informed about everything by the interpress-news portal and further a quote by kurt volkerno longer a leader many years ago we said that georgia was the best prepared for an offensive before joining nato or even the european union, now everyone sees georgia as a country whose democracy has returned and volker explained the reasons for this, he said that georgian democracy was affected by low-quality elections, the opposition's decision not to go to parliament, ignoring charles michel's agreement, julia, i don't know what you understand, i apologize for the ukrainian language i said, i'll explain kurt volker's statement. you probably understood what the conversation was about, that georgia is no longer a regional leader and, uh , the whole. leader in the caucasus, for some reason i think that it is azerbaijan, what is your attitude to kurt volker's statement and where should we now look for help to ukraine in the caucasus ? since georgia itself is quite neutral, as it seems to me, maybe i am mistaken, it refers to russia's war against ukraine and our defensive actions. they

in the west with nadia, new elections are expected in this country, next is a direct quote from kurt volker is no longer a leader, many years ago we spoke that georgia is the best prepared for joining nato or even the european union, now everyone sees georgia as a country whose democracy has turned back end of volker's quote well, he explained the reasons for this said that georgian democracy was affected by the quality of the elections held, the opposition's decision not to go to the parliament, the ignoring of the charles michel agreement . your forecast, your word please. georgia, unfortunately, declares one thing and does something completely different, and it is precisely the case with ukraine where we see that georgia has not introduced any sanctions against russia, that georgia continues to trade with russia showed the world that georgia is actually pro-russian and that government, which er, also various er, journalistic investigations and not only recently showed additional connections of the current ruling elite of georgia, the georgian oligarchy, with the russian oligarchy, and ev

ambassador to nato, who also worked as a special agent with the us representative in to ukraine, kurt volkersaid that the russian troops could make a strategic mistake by abandoning everything they have to kill severodonetsk, because after this battle, this is the opinion of kurt volker, the russians will be significantly exhausted. my colleague albi schunder was with us about the course of hostilities in ukraine at the same time as the situation in donbas bbc correspondents jeremy bowen and tv journalist fred scott visited the city of bakhmut, a front-line city that may become one of russia's next targets, and from there they reported that life in donbas was never easy, but at least it was usual now that the war is getting closer to this home for the elderly it is time to go these women have no families that could support them one of the ukrainian volunteers admitted to me russian soldiers are worse than beasts they cannot leave the women here to their own devices they are taking them to the west away from donbas, away from the russian invasion, it's normal, this is the result of the russia

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i'm joined now by kurt volker, former us ambassador to nato in 2008 until 2009, and was special representatives between 2017 and 2019. it is great to get you on the programme. in the first instance, were you surprised by this or where you expecting this or where you expecting this to happen following russia's invasion of ukraine? there has been a lot of talk about finland and sweden joining nato really ever since the end of the soviet union and the end of the soviet union and the fall of the berlin wall. what does neutrality really mean and a modern world? so there are these discussions, but i went to a high school in sweden so i understand the traditions there and the traditions there and the traditions attached to non— alignment and peacetime. when you look at russia and the way it has behaved, attacking a neighbour, engaging in all of these barbaric acts as we jostle in your report, this is something that is showing that nonalignment is no longer a safe option, so nato membership is really the only way to go to protect their populations. doesn't this increase though the chance of further es

kurt volker was an american envoy to ukraine, and i travelled with him to the conflict zone in 2018.ths in power, he believed he could do a deal with russia's president. i remember even in ourfirst meetings saying "i understand you want peace, but putin doesn't want peace". this is what he wants to do, he is attacking ukraine on purpose. it is not for lack of some formula, he is doing it because he is trying to weaken ukraine. i think he was initially sceptical of that, but i think as he tried to talk with putin, tried to do a couple of prisoner exchanges, i think he came to the view that actually putin is fighting a war that he wants to fight. later that year, the only meeting between zelensky and president putin took place in paris, with the leaders of france and germany acting as chaperones. but the talks were frosty and went nowhere. paris was the endpoint for zelensky�*s attempts to strike a deal. until this war broke out, zelensky�*s time as president was showing some signs of fizzling out. he'd promised a lot and, perhaps understandably, was struggling to deliver on it. his on

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don’t know how far they are from us, but we should talk less about the fact that, for example, kurt volkeran american diplomat in davos, er- i think he said after the war with russia, ukraine should become a member of nato. everything changes, for example, before the full-scale question of accession. the european union did not look promising. but after the start of aggression, many things will change. i believe that the guarantee of ukraine's security is cooperation with nato. in my opinion, it is a reasonable decision of president zelensky to withdraw the entry into the north atlantic alliance is on the agenda so that everyone can see that russian president putin is at war with ukraine not because of nato, but simply because of our existence, so remove it on the agenda is the entry of ukraine into nato, how do you see it in view of all the above, well, what kind of domestic political dynamics is yours, what your president zelenskyy said. and of course, my colleague kruzokeri . at the international forum, you have to listen, well, he knows ukraine and nato very well, so he gives his own re

we spoke to kurt volker, former us ambassador to nato from 2008 until 2009 and was the special representative and 2019. there has been a lot of talk about finland and sweden joining nato really ever since the end of the soviet union and the fall of the berlin wall. what does neutrality really mean in a modern world like this? and so, there are always discussions, but i went to a high school in sweden so i understand the traditions that are there and the attachment to to nonalignment in peacetime. and yet, when you see russia behave the way it has, unprovoked, attacking a neighbour, engaging in all of these barbaric acts as we just saw in your report, this is something that signals to the finns and swedes that nonalignment is no longer a safer option, and so nato membership is really the only way to go to protect their own populations. what putin was talking but when he said nato was planning to expand, he was talking about ukraine which was actually not going to happen. there had been no movements on ukrainian membership in nato for 1h years. but what's happened now is with russia's aggressio

after the end of the war, the american diplomat and former us special representative in ukraine kurt volkerd in davos, according to him, putin is at war with ukraine not because of nato, but because of his desire to destroy our state by e-e, of course, more should have been done before russia started this crazy war with all the consequences of mutilated lives and tragedies, this is aggression against the sovereign state of ukraine without meaningful explanations and the west 100% must say that this is unacceptable and must do everything to stop it. i believe that the guarantee of ukraine's security is cooperation with nato. i think it is a very smart decision by zelensky to remove nato from the agenda so that everyone can see that putin is not fighting through nato but simply wants to destroy ukraine and i i believe that after the war, ukraine should become a member of nato, everything changes, for example, before the war, the question of joining the eu did not look promising. and essentials, they say that volunteering helps them survive difficult times as well. my colleagues, please contin

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let's bring in kurt volker, former u.s. am be as -- ambassador to nato. a bit of confusion there.n this reticent of the president to antagonize russia. >> right. there's some things that shouldn't be communicated this way. the first thing is, let's be clear. we're sending ukraine multiple launch systems but they're of a long range. this is important because the russians right now can shell the ukrainians and the ukrainians can't shell them back. this will change that. this is good. everything else about the roll-out of this decision has been botched. first off, we should not be telegraphing to the russians what we will not do. we should not be saying some weapons are in and some weapons are out what if the ukrainians did hit the russians in russian territory? why is that a problem when russia is committing car crimes, atrocities? i don't see the problem here. >> trace: people have said for months now, we are we so afraid of offending russia when russia has done nefarious deeds? you've been adamant that the west does not pressure ukraine in giving up territory. >> absolutely. >> tr

special representative for ukraine, kurt volker. mr. ambassador, thank you for being here. sofa sill tating mig fighters to ukraine, that was thought to be too provocative but battlefield intelligence that kills generals or sinks a ship, that's okay. help me understand the parameters of our involvement. >> right. well, thank you for having me. and to start off on that, i would have thought we should have facilitated the pols providing the mig 29 aircraft because the ukrainians are in a war of self defense. russia has attacked them. they have killed thousands of people. they have killed civilians. they have committed war crimes. and ukraine has a right to self defense under the u.n. charter, article 51, they have a right to defend themselves. with that, why wouldn't a country like poland say if the ukrainians need mig 29s, we'll provide them. why wouldn't the u.s. say poland, we got your back. you're a nato ally. we'll be there for you. and similarly, information about where the russians are when they're attacking the ukrainians, i don't find that to be controversial in shar

we're also working to get kurt volker with us, the former nato ambassador from the u.s. general, thank you for being here with us. i want to ask you about what we just heard regarding the azovstol steel plant, and the courage on display by some of the ukrainian forces who are simply refusing to give up. >> well, this is a sign of what they've been doing now for almost a month, isn't it? they were surrounded before any of the western aid could get to them because western aid was slow and starting up, and so they fought without the new weapons and things that we are now sending in to ukraine, and they've held out for a long time, and tactically, what that means is they have tied up russian forces, battalion task groups around mariupol that were not able to go to the rest of the fight. sadly now as mariupol falls, those forces will be able to join the rest of the fight in the region. >> now, we have ambassador volker with us. i want to ask you about the other moves parts we have today. the leaders of finland and sweden met on the heels of applying to nato, and yet, turkey i

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