Political scientist Sergei Markov was responding to comments Hillary Clinton made on the Pod Save America podcast.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 to prevent „a big war,“ according to a bizarre claim made by a Russian political scientist on state TV.
The statement was made by Sergei Markov, an international relations professor at a Moscow university, who was formerly a legislature in the Russian parliament representing Putin’s United Russia party.
Over the past few days, Ukrainian forces have regained some territory in the east and south of the country, as part of an ongoing counteroffensive, though they are not believed to have penetrated the main Russian defensive positions.
Markov was responding to comments Hillary Clinton made during a recording of the Pod Save America podcast on Tuesday in New York City, when she linked Putin’s desire to „be on the side that wins“ with his family’s suffering during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
Referencing a conversation she had with Putin at a 2011 summit, Clinton said: „Think about the trauma that his family and so many Russian families went through, and in some people that kind of trauma makes them feel like never again, no war, we have to be more compassionate and caring, we have to help people.
