Ukraine warns international community that "alternatives" to Putin's defeat will be "very costly"

The main advisor to the Presidency of Ukraine, Mijailo Podoliak, warned the international community this Friday that any “alternative” that does not involve Russia's defeat on the battlefield will be “much more costly.”

“It is obvious that any alternative to Russia's strategic loss on the battlefield followed by a hasty withdrawal of troops and the beginning of an internal political transformation will be much more costly for the global community than direct support for Ukraine,” he said. Podoliak said on his Telegram.

“It is about the total dismantling of global rules, growing instability, a costly arms race, multiple regional wars, coups d'état and the construction of a global Authoritarian Alliance, waves of migration, terrorism as a key form of domination and interventions in systems politicians of democracies,” he predicted.

In that sense, the president's advisor Volodimir Zelensky has insisted to Ukraine's international partners that “it is time to make the right decision”, one that involves, he stressed, “the right missiles.”