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| 'Putin will be gone soon': Exiled Russian dissident Ilya Ponomarev |
| 2022-04-07 |
| [France24] Exiled Russian dissident Ilya Ponomarev gave an interview to FRANCE 24 from Kyiv. The former Russian lawmaker was the only member of the Douma to vote against the annexation of Crimea back in 2014 and now lives in Ukraine. He predicted that "Putin will be gone soon", arguing that the Russian president has "definitely lost the war" in Ukraine and that "no dictator who has lost a war can stay in power". Asked about the suspected war crimes in Bucha that have shocked the world, Ponomarev claimed that the killings were most likely the results of "panic" by retreating Russian forces, rather than carefully planned. Ilya Ponomarev, a former Russian lawmaker-turned-opponent of Vladimir Putin, who has lived in Ukraine since 2016, told FRANCE 24 that Putin has already lost the war in Ukraine and that his days in power are numbered. Ponomarev, who was the only member of the Russian Douma to vote against the annexation of Crimea back in 2014 and who joined the Ukrainian territorial defence forces at the onset of the war, warned that the Russian president will attempt to obtain a military victory by trying to carve out a Russian-controlled area from Kharkiv to Odesa, which would include the Donbas region. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 I doubt civil well reasoned discourse translates into Russian. |
| Posted by: Chris 2022-04-07 16:22 |
| #3 Rinaldeddu, what a great way to win friends and influence people! You Ruskies are such a pleasant bunch of folks that it's no wonder none of the other folks in Europe want anything to do with you. They ran, they did not walk, away from the Soviet Union as fast as they could because guys like you are such jerks. And now you've pissed off the Ukrainians so very badly that they are humiliating the hell out of your precious Vladimir. There are people who frequent Rantburg who might tend toward being somewhat sympathetic. And, if you could observe, you might find articles here that actually support your cause. The beauty of Rantburg is that you can find all kinds of different points of view. Then you get to make up your own mind. Can you do that in Russia? But when you insult Fred, the Rantburg mods and the rest of us it makes us think you're getting exactly what you deserve. C'mon. Give us some civil, well-reasoned discourse. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-04-07 15:01 |
| #2 More crap from your alcoholic homosexual rantburg editor |
| Posted by: Rinaldeddu 2022-04-07 13:34 |
| #1 The wet dream of our globalist elites. Not to say that it won't happen. But then what? Will Hunter get a seat on the Gazprom board of directors? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-04-07 13:25 |