Russia has continued to attack critical Ukrainian gain infrastructure in recent weeks, a tactic one expert says is designed to dampen support for Ukraine in the West.
Ukraine's economy, heavily dependent on farming, has felt the crunch of the Russia invasion, which has slowed the country's agricultural exports. Those exports are also a vital source of food to developing nations around the world, which depend on supplies of wheat, barley and sunflower oil from Ukraine.
"Putin has turned to what the Russians call a strategy of indirect action," Koffler said."Developed on Putin’s orders by the Russian General Staff, this strategy includes scorched earth tactics aimed at destroying everything that enables the adversary to wage war - crops, livestock, critical infrastructure, including medical facilities."
"He wants regular Americans and Europeans to place pressure on the governments to abandon Ukraine. He wants to show that Ukraine is turning into a burden, 100 percent dependent on the West for its survival by destroying its industrial foundation and agricultural base," Koffler said.does not view warfare through the same prism as Western countries.
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