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'If they can't have it, then they'll destroy it': Kyiv-based Security Expert discusses Russian war tactics

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 29 Dec 2025, 9:18am
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 370,000 have been wounded. Photo / AFP
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 370,000 have been wounded. Photo / AFP

'If they can't have it, then they'll destroy it': Kyiv-based Security Expert discusses Russian war tactics

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 29 Dec 2025, 9:18am

More attacks from Russia - as the Presidents of the US and Ukraine prepare to hold talks in Florida.

Russia has bombarded Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine with strikes by missiles and hundreds of drones - knocking out power and heat in parts of the capital.

Kyiv based Foreign Policy and Security Expert, Jimmy Rushton, [told Andrew Dickens that this is a continuing pattern of attacks.

He says Russia's goal is to force Ukrainians to pressure their Government to surrender. 

He says despite having no power in the height of winter, Ukrainian people are strong and won't give in. 

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