{"id":98832,"date":"2024-02-13T23:11:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T23:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/the-chutzpah-of-putins-ambassador-to-the-uk-has-exposed-a-brutal-truth-world-news\/"},"modified":"2024-02-13T23:11:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T23:11:06","slug":"the-chutzpah-of-putins-ambassador-to-the-uk-has-exposed-a-brutal-truth-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/the-chutzpah-of-putins-ambassador-to-the-uk-has-exposed-a-brutal-truth-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The chutzpah of Putin’s ambassador to the UK has exposed a brutal truth | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was the sheer chutzpah and brazen confidence of the ambassador’s performance that was most striking.<\/p>\n

His words speak volumes about the way Russia believes this war is now moving in its favour.<\/p>\n

Andrei Kelin, Vladimir Putin’s ambassador to the UK<\/strong>, is a career civil servant.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Sky News’ Yalda Hakim<\/strong>, he chose his words and tone carefully.<\/p>\n

He was able to sound assured because Ukrainians are not winning this war and at times he was even able to rub salt in their wounds.<\/p>\n

He claimed the frontline in Ukraine is moving steadily westwards and the country is struggling to fund and resource its war effort.<\/p>\n

Russia, on the other hand, has weathered the worst of Western sanctions and its military industrial complex is more than up to the challenge of supplying its war effort.<\/p>\n

That is broadly speaking true, give or take some hyperbole, and it highlights the perilous state of Ukraine’s war machine given ongoing doubts about continued American financial support.<\/p>\n

The West should now understand its mistakes in supporting Ukraine, Mr Kelin said.<\/p>\n

Ukraine should also accept that resisting the invasion was a mistake.<\/p>\n

An astonishing claim.<\/p>\n

God knows how many more atrocities like Bucha<\/strong> would have been visited on Ukraine had it not put up a fight.<\/p>\n

Quite some chutzpah from the ambassador then given the quite staggering cost of the war to Russia – 300,000 troops dead or injured, thousands of tanks destroyed<\/strong> and its economy cut off from the West.<\/p>\n

But that is not the point.<\/p>\n

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Mr Kelin’s ability to even half-land some punches on Ukraine and the West’s flagging record in this war highlights the way the conflict is going.<\/p>\n

The brutal truth is the Putin regime has got away with taking chunks out of its neighbour by force.<\/p>\n

In a stomach-churning moment, Mr Kelin laughed as he taunted Ukrainians for not surrendering Mariupol early enough to avoid its destruction.<\/p>\n

That will anger people watching in Ukraine the most.<\/p>\n

Bizarrely, he said most of the city’s population had been Greek – as if that made its fate more acceptable.<\/p>\n

The port city had many nationalities but most were Ukrainian and more than 10,000 people died when it was annihilated by Russian forces.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/strong>
Russia tries to hide crimes as it rebuilds Ukraine<\/strong>
The surgeon smuggled into Mariupol to save Ukrainian soldiers<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If diplomacy is the patriotic art of lying for one’s country, the ambassador is an accomplished practitioner of its dark arts.<\/p>\n

He peddled the Kremlin’s false narratives that peace talks were singlehandedly scuppered by Boris Johnson, NATO was installing bases in Ukraine and that Russia is a working democracy.<\/p>\n

But then this is the same ambassador who told Sky News that Russia had no plans to invade Ukraine a month before it did just that.<\/p>\n

But there is some truth in his assessment of the state of the war, or enough of it to worry the West.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has failed to dislodge the invaders.<\/p>\n

The West has failed to punish Russia for its unprovoked aggression.<\/p>\n

And now Russian diplomats are sounding increasingly confident as they mock and taunt the victims of their invasion.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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