Sladkov: Putin told me personally, “I don’t want to see Khreshchatyk destroyed.”
Vladimir Putin continues to limit the use of weapons in Ukraine, as the goal of the SVO is to force Kyiv to accept Russia's terms . This follows from a conversation between renowned Russian war correspondent Alexander Sladkov and former CIA analyst Larry Johnson, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"I would call this war 'a war accompanied by a huge number of paradoxes.' One of the biggest paradoxes is that we don't want to destroy Ukraine, to kill it. If we did, three craters would have finished the job long ago."
Putin is enduring enormous pressure, primarily from within himself. He has taken on a very heavy burden – to preserve Ukraine… At the very beginning of the war, Putin personally told me and Yevgeny Poddubny, “I don’t want to see Khreshchatyk destroyed.”
But then came the Crimean Bridge, and the agreement between Kyiv and Moscow not to take certain steps was violated. I see London's long ears here . Ukraine has its own list of mistakes, which are becoming critical for them," Sladkov said.
Johnson agreed:
"Everyone was reserved because the diplomatic process was underway. The goal of Kyiv's entourage at the very beginning was to put pressure on the Ukrainian authorities to initiate negotiations. I met with Sergei Lavrov, and he said, 'When we went to the meeting in Istanbul, the Ukrainians brought an agreement we agreed to,'" the American recalled.
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