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President Ilves said in ETV's Monday evening talk show "Foreign World" that at the Munich Security Conference, officials did not want to admit that the war in Ukraine can go even further. Rather, the talk was still about how a diplomatic solution has to be found.

Ilves said that in the discussion, there is no understanding of what we do in a situation where there is high-tech military equipment and Russian special units on one side and outdated weapons and Ukrainian soldiers, who are mostly volunteers, on the other side.

Ilves admitted though that even if Ukraine was provided cutting-edge weaponry, training its users, the Ukrainian military, would take time.

"This dilemma is a lot more complicated than just to say – no, we do not give or yes, we will give! What, how, and so on has to be discussed a lot more thoroughly," Ilves stressed.

Answering the question of whether US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who met in Washington on Monday to discuss the Ukrainian crisis, have reconciled after the intelligence scandal, Ilves said that probably there are no major conflicts between the two leaders any more.

President Ilves thinks that the USA has a strong interest in resolving the crisis in Ukraine, because both the public opinion, as well as the Congress wants it. "It is quite dreadful to see how international agreements and the entire international system that has been in place at least in Europe, has been abandoned," he said.