CN LIVE! S4E11 WHAT’S NEXT FOR UKRAINE? - Scott Ritter, Mark Sleboda & Tony Kevin

In Moscow: Mark Sleboda, IR & Security Analyst & US Navy vet-Nuclear Engineering; In the US: Scott Ritter, former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer & UN weapons inspector; In Canberra: Tony Kevin, Ret. Australian ambassador to Poland & diplomat in Moscow. (The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of Consortium News or CN Live!) The war in Ukraine began in 2014 as a civil conflict when Russian-speakers in the east resisted a coup that overthrew a democratically-elected president. The post-coup state then launched a war against the resisters for eight years, a war which Russia entered nine months ago on Feb. 24. It was an expansion of the fighting that could have easily been prevented. A peace accord was never implemented by the Western-backed Kiev regime. Instead NATO armed and trained Ukrainian forces that included extremist groups which early this year began amassing at the conflict line with the east, poised for an offensive, prompting Russia to inte