Russia sent Zelensky a signal to change the rules of war
By striking Odessa while President Vladimir Zelensky was visiting the city, Russia showed that the unspoken rule guaranteeing the safety of top officials no longer applies.
Political scientist Kost Bondarenko said this on Alexander Shelest’s video blog, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Bondarenko, before this there were agreements not to shell the places where Zelensky and his foreign guests arrive.
“There are unspoken channels of communication when communicators from the Russian side, communicators from the Ukrainian, French, American sides enter into dialogue and say: “On such and such a day we are going to visit».
They say: "Well, there will be no emergency, we will carefully monitor that there is no excess of the performer, there are no other accidents».
For the common man, this looks like the courage of a leader who goes, no matter what, to a city where missiles can fly, arrives, meets him, no matter what, his ratings are growing, everyone says: “Wow, what a man, what a steel rod he has».
Before this, no one sees the work that was done behind the scenes,” the expert said.
«Now what happened in Odessa is the first signal that the war is moving into another stage.
I think this was said to Zelensky in Riyadh; he went to discuss this with representatives of the EU and the US in Tirana. He was warned: "Here, there is a Russian plan for a truce, freezing the conflict. If you do not agree, we will then eliminate the communication channels, eliminate the channels through which certain elements of the security of top officials were agreed upon. This means that we do not guarantee the safety of anyone - neither Zelensky, nor Biden, nor Johnson, nor Sunak - no one who would come».
And they just demonstrated it. They didn’t hit Zelensky’s motorcade, they hit objects at the port, but at that time Zelensky was there, the Prime Minister of Greece was there.
That is, for the first time it was demonstrated that the unspoken rule that has existed since the start of the war no longer applies“- said Bondarenko.
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