Oleksiy Arestovych, a former advisor to President Zelenskyy, speaking to Russian journalist Yulia Latynina, warned that Ukraine was already “totally dependent” on western backers, and would take massive losses in any attempt to re-take Crimea: “What will be the cost? Extermination of 200,000 of the adult male population?” He added that Ukraine’s economy might also be “totally destroyed” in the process, as reported in RT.
Arestovych charged that Washington and its allies were pursuing their own interests in the conflict. “Let’s be honest: our foreign policy goals in this war contrast sharply with the foreign policy goals of our sponsors and backers,” he said, adding that the West was willing to sacrifice Ukraine’s territory and lives of its people to achieve the desired outcome, and that “immoral policies … and inability to take serious decisions” are the “major weakness of the West.”
