Saakashvili gives FRANCE 24"s Robert Parsons his point of view on the Ukrainian crisis. "Russia is after the whole of Ukraine, not only the east or the south of Ukraine", he says.

"Ukraine is like West Berlin now," he adds. "The idea of West Berlin was that it was crucially important to the Soviet Union for Stalin to take over West Berlin. And then the West stood up and made West Berlin a showcase, which means that first it was defended physically, and then it was made into a very successful case in parallel."