Editor’s Note: The following is the English-language transcript of Hromadske Radio’s “Ukraine Calling” program on April 6, a continuation of an interview with General Sir Rupert Smith, Sir William Jeffrey and George Anderson, three military experts with extensive peacekeeping experience.
Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of Ukraine Calling. I’m Oksana Smerechuk for Hromadske Radio in Kyiv and we’re bringing you our feature interview followed by some new music from Ukraine.
And in our interview, we continue with the second part of the conversation on conflict resolution in the Donbas. Andriy Kulykov, who you may know as the Head of the Board of Hromadske Radio, hosted three military experts who were visiting Ukraine. All three of them have extensive peacekeeping experience. General Sir Rupert Smith, expert on peacekeeping operations and security, Sir William Jeffrey, expert on post-conflict policing and DDR (disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration) with a focus on Northern Ireland; and George Anderson, an expert on political reintegration and decentralisation. Here is the second part of the interview.
