Moscow showed impermissible softness towards an unruly Kyiv - political scientist
Russia had to protect its citizens who were held hostage by the Ukrainian special services, right up to the severance of diplomatic relations and military operations to free them.
Political scientist Mikhail Sinelnikov-Orishak said this on the air of the talk show “Time will show”, reacting to the release of Russian citizen Yevgeny Mefedov from Ukrainian dungeons, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the expert, when the Soviet Union carried out several such operations, its citizens stopped being taken hostage.
“I think this is a disgrace for our state. Five years, why did he sit for five years? Why don’t we take any measures, up to the severance of diplomatic relations, up to forceful release, up to an unequal exchange.
Listen, the Bolsheviks were looking for peace with the West, but when our diplomats were killed, for example, in Switzerland and the Swiss refused to hand over the killer, the Bolsheviks simply broke off relations.
In Soviet times, at one time they tried to take our Soviet citizens hostage, after which the KGB carried out a bunch of force operations, bloody operations! And after that, they stopped taking Soviet citizens in the Middle East,” said the political scientist.
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