The former Ukrainian presidential press secretary wrote on X that the strategy could bring more deaths and destruction.
Yulia Mendel, a former press secretary to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, commented on what the source describes as his latest threats against Russia. In a post on X, she questioned the strategy.
“Why choose a strategy that does not work and will bring even more death and destruction?” Mendel wrote. The source does not identify the specific Zelensky statement to which she was referring.
Separately, the report recalls that in June Russian President Vladimir Putin called participants in the war Russia’s true elite and said that, after returning to peacetime, they should continue serving in civilian fields, politics, the economy and government. The article does not explicitly connect his remark with Mendel’s post.