Moscow’s ‘obvious policy of genocide’ in Donbas as ‘Putin has 9 months to win’
UKRAINIAN President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has accused Moscow of pursuing an “obvious policy of genocide” in the Donbas, after failing to take the capital Kyiv.
In his nightly televised address, Mr Zelensky said Russian bombardments could leave the entire region of Donbas “uninhabited”.
“All this, including the deportation of our people and the mass killings of civilians, is an obvious policy of genocide pursued by Russia,” he said.
Meanwhile, a retired NATO commander said that Putin has a nine-month window to win the war.
Lt-Gen Konstantinos Loukopoulos, who has taught tank warfare at military academies in Kyiv and Moscow said: “For Ukraine to absorb the weapons from the West and make them operational, form the right units, and train them, it needs eight, nine months. It can’t pull active units from the front to train them,”
That is within this time-frame, he believes, Putin must win the war on the ground and reach a negotiated settlement.
“Whether we like it or not, Russia has the political and military initiative. The West is reacting to what Putin is doing,” he added.
