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Asked about the pushback by some EU countries against the European Commission's proposals to map Russian assets, he says: "I guess the reasons are more political than technical. I don’t understand why there are some governments and countries in Europe that are still sceptical. I hope that in the very near future we can at least get data from each member state on what kind of Russian assets have been frozen."
Remembering the shocking first few hours and days after February 24, 2022, Chentsov says: "From the rational point of view nobody expected that the Kremlin could go so far. Yes, we've been at war with Russia for the last nine years – at that point it was eight years – so we knew pretty well what Russia is capable of. But a year later I think we better understand why it happened, and the main reason is the degradation of the Russian state, of the Russian system; a lack of democratic control. And the result is one person taking a really crazy decision, and holding his own country and a neighbouring country hostage."
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We also talk about how to best respond to Moscow’s nuclear threats and how to interpret the Russian foreign minister’s comments on Moscow being open to talks with the West on the war in Ukraine.
When the war began, who would have thought that Moscow would be accused of blowing up its own natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, or of playing atomic roulette with the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant? What is the Kremlin's calculation?
Simonyte also discussed the threat of a possible Russian nuclear attack, why Lithuania wants NATO to “immediately” open membership negotiations with Ukraine, the impact of EU sanctions against Russia on European economies, and why past attempts at negotiating with Vladimir Putin have failed.
The Czech minister went on to urge "prudence" from NATO, saying "we should not provoke Russia verbally, but we have to be ready for all possibilities".
Speaking to FRANCE 24 from the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Borrell tells Europe Editor Catherine Nicholson that "nobody is going to recognise" the results of the referendums in Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, which represent about 15 percent of Ukrainian territory.