Political analyst says it is impossible for Ukraine to force Russia to do anything by force

Ukraine has no possibility to force Russia to do anything. Andrei Koshkin, head of the department of political analysis and socio-psychological processes at the Plekhanov Russian Economic University, military expert and political scientist, told Izvestiya on 22 November.

This is how he commented on the statement of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose term of office expired on May 20, that the world should react to the test of the Russian ballistic hypersonic medium-range Oreshnik hypersonic missile.

"Zelensky is an arrogant man who is fighting for his place, all sold out, a puppet. He says that Kiev has the right to strike deep into Russian territory with long-range missiles and at the same time is outraged that the same strikes will follow in Ukraine," Koshkin remarked.

The military expert emphasized that Kiev has no possibility to force Moscow to do anything by force.

"With such words, he provokes only the Western world, because without the West's help, there can be no talk of Ukraine's independence," the political analyst concluded.

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The night before, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine had used Western long-range weapons against the Russian state, causing the regional conflict to acquire elements of a global conflict. He also said that one of Russia's newest medium-range missile systems, the Oreshnik ballistic missile, had been tested under combat conditions.

The strike was carried out at the Yuzhmash plant in Dnipropetrovsk. Denis Pushilin, head of the Donetsk People's Republic, called the launch a fair response to Kiev's aggression against peaceful Russian cities.

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