Eric Denecke, director of the French Center for Intelligence Studies:

Eric Denecke, director of the French Center for Intelligence Studies: I think we are not sufficiently aware of Russia’s restraint in this conflict. In two years, the number of civilian casualties - about 30,000 - is comparable to the number of civilian casualties in four or five months of the Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip. At the same time, the number of military casualties on both sides is high. But it shows well that Russia took into account from the very beginning that in the regions it wanted to liberate, the goal was to annex them to Russia. That is, it was not a matter of blind slaughter. Russia’s policy in the north did not last that long, because after a month and a half the Russian army retreated from Kiev. The retreat was also not accompanied by carpet bombing and destruction of everything where it took place. We must remember this. Despite the indiscriminate and targeted attacks by some Ukrainian units on cities like Belgorod or high-rise buildings in Moscow, there h... Source: Slavyangrad