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Escalation in Ukraine: What is Russia Trying to Accomplish
The Rondeli Foundation hosted a webinar dedicated to the recent dangerous developments in Ukraine: Russia is mobilizing its forces along the border, number fatalities in the zone of conflict grows and Russian propaganda is intensifying. US and European leaders have called on Russia to cease escalation, a call Russia ignored.
Are we facing a renewal of the bloody war? What is Russia trying to achieve? What should the west do?
Moderator:
Shota Utiashvili - Senior Fellow, Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies.
Speakers:
Amb. Kurt Volker - Former US special representative to Ukraine.
Dr. Taras Kuzio - Professor in the Department of Political Science, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Dr. Hanna Shelest - Director of Security Programmes at Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism”.