‘Putin will spark a third world war if Russia claims victory in Ukraine’
www.telegraph.co.uk
Ukrainian steel magnate Yuriy Ryzhenkov warns of global fallout from the Kremlin’s war

Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/9202260

Vladimir Putin will spark a third world war if the Russian president is allowed to declare victory in Ukraine, according to the boss of the country’s biggest private employer.

Yuriy Ryzhenkov, chief executive of Metinvest, which ran the sprawling Azovstal steelworks that became the site of a relentless Russian assault at the start of the 2022 invasion, warned of the consequences of a Kremlin victory.

“I don’t believe that if Ukraine fails, Putin will stop,” he said in an interview ahead of the two year anniversary of the war in Ukraine. “The Baltic states, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia are the next targets.”

  • Ooops
    15•4 months ago

    Putin can actually claim whatever he wants and does so regularly. No one actually cares. And no claim or “being allowed to claim something” will actually change reality.

    • lemmyvoreEnglish
      9•4 months ago

      I think he meant “declare” as in actually win the war, not in the Michael Scott sense.

    • @force@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•4 months ago

      Yeah, if he took over Kazakhstan tomorrow the US would leave it at writing a strongly worded letter…

    • @Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•4 months ago

      People care.

      It’s just that the people who care are mostly non-Russian, and even the Russians who do care and realise they have aa psychopathic neo-Hitler as a leader have little to no recourse on the matter.

      And what are western news gonna do, just completely ignore his lies and not print anything about him, as all he says is lies?

      He doesn’t need to change the reality for his words to matter. He only needs to keep convincing the Russian orcs of his bullshit, so they keep going to war for him.

      My wish is that there’d be someone near Putin who would see the light and Putin would “accidentally fall out of a window” or “suddenly and unexpectedly” die of a heartattack after having his afternoon tea. I don’t have faith in that happening, but man do I wish it did.

      I think the next leader would reconsider this “special military operation”, even if they were a right-wing conservative.

      But I don’t have much hope… I heard about how Russia is trying to entice American conservatives to Russia. I thought it was something a bit exaggerated. But then I saw the bit on Jon Stewart where he showed Tucker Carlson visiting Russia. What. The. Fuck.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM2h3KnWAWY