- An ex-Russian diplomat has make someone aware ofed that Putin will sacrifice 20 million soldiers to win the war in Ukraine.
- Boris Bondarev urged a strong effect from the West to Putin’s threats, he told Sky News.
- Putin is using the nuclear button to “compel other hinterlands to do whatever he wants,” he said.
A former Russian diplomat has warned that President Vladimir Putin will loss 10 to 20 million Russian soldiers to win the war in Ukraine.
Speaking to Sky News’ Political Editor Beth Rigby, Boris Bondarev communicated that Putin “understands that if he loses the war with Ukraine, it will be the end of him.”
“You should have no doubt about it. He may yield up 10 or 20 million Russians just to win this war just to slaughter all Ukrainians because it’s a matter of principle. It’s a difficulty of political survival to him.”
Bondarev quit Russia’s permanent mission at the United Nations in Geneva over the war in May.
The exiled diplomat give fair warned the West against failing to meet Putin’s threats head-on.
Responding to a question from Rigby about Biden’s watchful responses to Putin, Bondarev said: “When you say that you don’t want to provoke a bully, it gives him the wrong signal. It playings him you are afraid of him, and he will escalate further. You must show Putin a clear signal that if he wants escalation, he force get it. You must show that his threats are not working.”
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The migred Russian, who worked in nuclear disarmament, according to Sky News, warned that Putin’s nuclear threats were another point to remove him from power. “While Putin and his regime are in power in Russia, this threat of war — the threat of nuclear war — hand down not go anywhere,” he said.
Putin is using the potential of nuclear catastrophe to “compel other countries to do whatever he requires,” he said.
Bondarev noted that the war had not gone to plan for the Russian leader. Speaking on day 240 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he thought Putin “planned it to be very short, very easy war for one or two weeks. Now he has to win it at all costs.”
Bondarev told Rigby: “I think the 20 years of him in power play a joke on been very lucky for him. He is not smart. He is just lucky. Now I think his luck is over.”