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As the war, which was supposed to end quickly, prolongs, Russia has mentioned nuclear attacks and is now intensively attacking nuclear power plants.

We asked the former US ambassador to NATO, what is the reason Russia has come this far, and how the war will play out in the future.



Correspondent Kim Soo-hyeong, interviewed in Washington, summarized this content.



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Kurt Volker, former US ambassador to NATO, who served as special representative for Ukraine at the U.S. State Department and negotiated directly with Russia, explained that Russia's attack on nuclear power is a trailer that can do even worse.



There is also the possibility of a tactical nuclear attack through artillery and short-range missiles.



[Kurt Volcker/Former US Ambassador to NATO: Putin is trying to make a 'dirty bomb' (combining a radioactive material with a bomb) by attacking a nuclear facility, or you can actually think he could use a tactical nuclear warhead.]



Indiscriminately attack even civilians It was analyzed that this was because Russia's military actions had reached a limit.



[Kurt Volcker/Former NATO Ambassador to the United States: President Putin has entered the path of an irreversible war.

He wants victory at any cost.

Putin is destroying the Ukraine he has targeted, but he is also destroying Russia in the process.]



Russia made a major miscalculation before it invaded Ukraine.



[Kurt Volcker / Former US Ambassador to NATO: Russia made a calculation mistake.

I thought this war was easy.

We paid only 2-3 days' worth of combat food to the soldiers and sent them to the battlefield.]



Now, it is diagnosed that it is difficult to end the war through negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.



[Kurt Volcker / Former US Ambassador to NATO: (How much do you expect from this negotiation?) Russia is using this negotiation to demand the surrender of Ukraine.

Ukraine will not surrender.

There will be no conclusions from this negotiation.]



It was predicted that the possibility of a long-term war in which neither side could guarantee a victory was increased.



[Kurt Volcker/Former US Ambassador to NATO: This is going to be a long, expensive and difficult war for Russia.

It will also be a costly war for Ukrainians.]



He also analyzed that Russian President Putin lost his sense of reality during the corona crisis.



So far, decision-making cannot be seen as a rational action at all.



[Kurt Volcker/Former NATO Ambassador to the United States: I think Putin did too much quarantine.

Corona has made him paranoid enough to make him look like a virophobic.

All decisions are irrational.

Putin has already shown the behavior of a maniac.]



The international community is calling for the need to control Putin's madness, which threatens nuclear weapons, not just massacres of civilians.



(Video coverage: Eunha Park, Video editing: Yang Won)