Volker says he is working on voluntary basis

 U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker has said that he is holding this position on a volunteer basis.

"I was asked to take on these Ukraine negotiations at a time when there wasn’t an assistant secretary confirmed, and a lot of clamor from the French, the Germans, the Ukrainians, also Russians, to get somebody in for the United States to do that. And I’m happy to do it; I'm doing it on a voluntary basis, so I'm not taxing the taxpayers here," Volker said in an interview with The Global Politico published on Monday.

According to him, he is personally very interested in the success of Ukraine, the restoration of peace and the return to the idea of a peaceful and democratic Europe.