'You cannot win the war if you don't hit your enemy,' former Russian diplomat Boris Bondarev told Newsweek.
last year that the war is"not only a crime against the Ukrainian people, but also, perhaps, the most serious crime against the people of Russia."
Russian President Vladimir Putin joins his hands as he holds a meeting of the Russia - Land of Opportunity platform supervisory board at the Catherine's Hall of the Kremlin in Moscow on April 20, 2022. Ukraine must strike legitimate targets inside Russia to win the war started by Putin nearly a year ago, according to former Russian diplomat Boris Bondarev.
"You cannot win the war if you don't hit your enemy," Bondarev said in a phone interview from Switzerland."Of course, [Ukraine] must not hit civilian targets like Russia does in Ukraine."told reporters in December that 62 percent of Russian missile strikes were on Ukrainian civilian targets, and that numerous cities, towns, villages and settlements have been heavily damaged as a result.
Ukraine shouldn't target power plants or civil infrastructure in Russia, but"military facilities, military bases, like air bases, missile bases, missile launchers, and warehouses," Bondarev emphasized.Read more
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