Unable to win on the battlefield, the invaders switched to the "Syrian option": encirclement and terror of cities - Arestovych on the shelling of Mariupol, Kharkiv, Akhtyrka

Oleksiy Arestovych, the adviser to the head of the President's Office, announced this, Espresso.TV reports.

"It became clear that the enemy had finally changed tactics. They are not able to defeat our Armed Forces on the battlefield, so they switched to the so-called "Syrian option". That is, the cordon and terror of large and small cities in order to inflict the greatest suffering and inflict psychological impact on our civilian population", he said.

According to Arestovych, now the most suffering city is Mariupol, which is simply leveled to the ground.

“I think that they are trying to do this so that they can then show it as an example and say, “Look, you want it the way Mariupol had,” the politician said, adding that Kharkiv, Akhtyrka, and Mykolaiv also suffer.