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Mall blast another sign Russia won't play by rules - Zelenskyy adviser

28 June 2022 14:33 (UTC +04:00)

An adviser to Ukraine's President Zelenskyy has been speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning, describing yesterday's attack on the shopping centre as a "war crime", APA reports citing BBC.

What happened in the city of Kremenchuk is "just another sign that Russia... doesn’t care about what the civilised world thinks or plans to do. And, obviously, that it doesn’t want to play by the rules," Alexander Rodnyansky says.

Kremenchuk, in central Ukraine, sits 80 miles outside of Russian-occupied territory, and Rodnyansky claims President Vladimir Putin previously warned far-reaching attacks like this one would happen if Russia thought "the West was doing too much to help Ukraine defend itself".

And on the wider conflict - particularly the fall of Severodonetsk in the east over the weekend - he adds that Russia is still progressing at "just 10km per month, maybe even less".

"Quantitively, we're outgunned but qualitatively, we're still much stronger than they are," he insists.