A previous Ukrainian mediator has actually denied the idea that Russia’s airstrikes on Poltava are a revenge to Ukraine’s attack right into Kursk.
Olexander Scherba, that previously functioned as Ukraine’s ambassador to Austria, informed DW that there was no reason for Russia’s strikes on Poltava.
“You know, wherever someone says something like this, I’m speechless because Ukraine has been invaded, killed, raped, tortured, beheaded, castrated for two and a half years. And now, in the third year of this war, we finally brought the war to Russian territory. And all of a sudden, people in the West say, well, this is the retaliation for what you did, for what we did,” he claimed.
Scherba claimed the Poltava assault on a Ukrainian health center was an instance of just how Moscow had a totally free regime to assault any place it desires inside Ukraine, while Kyiv is limited by Western problems worrying using Western tools in striking deep within Russia.
“But also, finally, we cannot fight this war with one of our hands bound behind our back. We have to strike their airfields,” he included.
“We have to strike their military bases. It cannot go on like this. It’s just insane. Insane that Russia can reach wherever they want. And we can only shoot within five 50 kilometer radius from our border.”
