Kyiv (dpa-AFX) – A good four months after the beginning of the Russian war of aggression, the Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak sees a change in the Russian army’s warfare. “It’s a new tactic by Russia: attacking residential areas and putting pressure on Western political elites to force Ukraine to sit down at the negotiating table,” Podoljak said in Kyiv on Saturday, according to reports from various media. Moscow pays no attention to how the world reacts to “inhuman attacks” with cruise missiles on residential areas. But this tactic will not work.
Russia is not fighting to gain territorial gains, but to destroy Ukraine and create a new security architecture in Europe, said Presidential Advisor Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He doesn’t understand “why there are still influential politicians in the West who believe that you can talk to Russia. That’s nonsense.” Moscow’s tactic is to scare the world into turning away from the war in Ukraine, saying: “Do whatever you want. The main thing is that this horror does not continue, lest we see it in the pages of our newspapers every day or watch it on TV.”/ast/DP/nas