Editor’s Note: The following is the English-language transcript of Hromadske Radio’s “Ukraine Calling” program on March 31, interviewing 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. We’re trying something new this week. We’re airing the first part of an interview, and the second part will air in next week’s show. Andriy Kulykov, Hromadske Radio co-founder and CEO, spoke to three military experts with extensive peacekeeping experience who visited Ukraine: 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, expert on political reintegration and decentralisation. Their conversation ran well over our regular time slot. But rather than editing it down, we decided to share the entire interview with you, in two parts. Here’s the first part.
