Putin will be 'humiliated' if he has to meet Zelenskyy, says defector diplomat

A former Russian diplomat who turned probably the most high-profile defector when he give up his job in Geneva after the invasion of Ukraine, says Vladimir Putin could be "humiliated" if he needed to meet with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. 

Boris Bondarev was a senior diplomat on the Russian mission in Geneva, Switzerland, however despatched an electronic mail to his fellow diplomats in Could saying that he was resigning as a result of he had by no means been "so ashamed" of his nation after the beginning of the battle. 

Now he tells Euronews that it was "crystal clear" to him that Russia "had stepped past the boundaries of motive and plunged into an abyss," and that prompted his determination to give up.

Greater than 150 days after the beginning of the battle, Bondarev now says that Vladimir Putin made a "strategic blunder" with the invasion and might want to ship "increasingly cannon fodder" to Ukraine. 

"It's true that each battle ends with negotiations. However at present I do not see that negotiations are what each side need." 

"He (Putin) desires to crush Ukraine as a result of it is a nation which in his opinion has no proper to exist. And but Ukrainians not solely exist, however they're defending and putting again" he provides.

So may there be a attainable face-to-face assembly between the Russian president and his Ukrainian counterpart as a part of a negotiated settlement to finish the battle? Boris Bondarenko says he thinks that is unlikely to occur. 

"Putin won't ever meet Zelenskyy if he isn't pressured to. He will probably be humiliated by that." 

"Chances are you'll keep in mind that Putin publicly known as Zelenskyy “a junkie” and known as upon Ukrainian generals and officers to eliminate him and his junkies in Kyiv. So think about what he would really feel if he has to shake arms with the Ukrainian president."

The ex-diplomat says that though Russian troops are nonetheless advancing within the jap Ukrainian Donbas area, the offensive is "seemingly dropping breath" and that Russia cannot afford to maintain the battle going for a very long time because the nation would not have the sources for that.