Episode 21: OSCE's Alexander Hug holds out hope Ukraine's warring parties will make peace

Channeling Brussels

Channeling Brussels, hosted by journalist Teri Schultz, gets newsmakers, movers and shakers to lose the lingo, burst out of the Brussels bubble and have real conversations about the critical foreign and security policies shaping our world. it's the rest of the story, beyond the few seconds of soundbites that make it into the news. In this episode, the deputy chief monitor of the OSCE's monitoring mission in Ukraine speaks to Teri just before a new ceasefire -- a "recommitment" to the ceasefire already agreed upon -- is due to go into effect between Ukraine's armed forces and Russian-backed separatists. Alexander Hug has been on the job four years, documenting not the peace agreement he was sent to monitor, but as many as a thousand violations of it every single day as the agreements are all but ignored by the parties. Still, Hug holds out hope for the "harvest ceasefire." Channeling Brussels is brought to you by the Atlantic Council. [Intro/Outro music "Happy Rock" by Bensound under a CC-BY-ND license (www.bensound.com/royalty-free-mus…rack/happy-rock/)]