Photo: Kateřina Cibulka, Czech Radio
Czech President Petr Pavel recently visited Ukraine. While there, he said that Czechia is ready to provide troops to Ukraine in case that a full ceasefire is agreed upon between Russia and Ukraine. The president also said that it’s likely that Ukraine will have to, at least temporarily, give up Russian-occupied territories to the invaders because of the logistical impossibility of recapturing them at this stage of the war. So, I sat down with Petr Kolář, advisor to Pavel, and former Czech ambassador to the US and Russia, to reflect on these comments and gauge his overall sense of what went wrong with EU-Russia relations.
So, you were Czech ambassador to the US from 2005 to 2010 and then to Russia from 2010 to 2012.
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Author: Jakub Ferenčík