Putin may halt Ukraine war only after Kremlin, Lenin’s Mausoleum are destroyed — diplomat

Diplomat Valeriy Chaly, Chairman of the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine, shared his opinions on Espreso TV.

“The paradox is that Putin will stop if we all show together that next year he has no chance and faces the risk of losing at home. Then the war will stop. My version is that the war will end at the peak of escalation. I say this seriously, not as a joke: the sign of readiness to end the war will be the destruction of the Kremlin walls and Lenin’s Mausoleum in Moscow. The destruction of this symbol will prove that we have the means to achieve the same goals as the Russians do with massive attacks. For now, we do not strike Moscow with missiles,” Valeriy Chaly noted.

In his opinion, if such a combined strike takes place, we will show the whole world that it is possible. After all, those in Moscow believe the war will pass them by, including those who sit silently next to Putin, even though they are against the war. That is when certain processes will begin.

“Russia is trying through information technologies to convince everyone that it will still win. Nonsense. The Russian Federation will not and cannot use nuclear weapons, because they know what the consequences would be against them. They will lose, and Putin will simply be taken out with a ‘snuffbox’ if he even thinks about one of his suitcases. Putin is not making a mistake but committing a crime against his own country — he is destroying Russia. In another year or two, Russia will follow its well-known path and become fragmented. There are people in Russia who understand that Putin is destroying the country. I don’t know how the behind-the-scenes war in Russia will unfold, because leaders of companies are already being killed, money is being taken, and there is a massive redistribution of property among 5–6 families. What happened in the 1990s, this ‘bandit St. Petersburg’, is now repeating itself on a completely different level,” the diplomat concluded.