'Escalation?...The Russians Have Already Escalated': Former

A longtime critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and an adviser to the Georgian government during its brief 2008 war with Russia, former Estonian foreign intelligence boss Eerik-Niiles Kross talked to RFE/RL's Georgian Service about the war in Ukraine and its antecedents.

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