"It doesn't look anymore that he's just aiming at annexing a few regions. It now looks that he's destroying the whole country. It's a war of mass destruction in a way.

"I heard his declarations today that all of that is moving according to plans, I'm not so sure that it's according to plans... He was not planning on the way Ukraine is resisting. He had a mass assault that was very psychological with his forces that were used from all sides. And it has not worked. Of course militarily, he has superiority, which one day or the other will manifest itself. But the determination and the resistance of the Ukrainian people and leadership is really very admirable," Zourabichvili said.