Russian diplomat stops with letter stating Putin ‘wants power forever’

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    One of Russia's most senior diplomats quits with most damning resignation letter AP|LinkedIn

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    Russian diplomat Boris Bondarevsent stopped his task with a damning resignation letter (Picture: AP/LinkedIn)

    One of Putin’s leading diplomats has actually resigned stating he has actually never ever been so ‘ashamed’ of his nation.

    Boris Bondarevsent sent his coworkers at the United Nations in Geneva a damning letter knocking the ‘aggressive war unleashed’ by the Russian president.

    The veteran bureaucrat’s outburst is an uncommon public expression of opposition to Putin from the ranks of the Russian elite.

    But it follows a pattern of brave Russians speaking up, 3 months to the day Putin sent his soldiers into Ukraine.

    Just recently, countless individuals unexpectedly started shouting ‘f*** the war’ at a jam-packed auditorium in St Petersburg.

    Mr Bondarev informed the Associated Press: ‘It is intolerable what my government is doing now.’

    He stated those who developed the war ‘want only one thing – to remain in power forever, live in pompous tasteless palaces, sail on yachts comparable in tonnage and cost to the entire Russian navy, enjoying unlimited power and complete impunity’.

    An image taken with permission from the passport photo page of Russian diplomat Boris Bondarev. Bondarev, a veteran Russian diplomat to the U.N. Office at Geneva says he handed in his resignation before sending out a scathing letter on Monday May 23, 2020 to foreign colleagues inveighing against the ???aggressive war unleashed??? by President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine. (Boris Bondarev via AP)

    Boris Bondarev was a senior diplomat at Russia’s UN workplace in Geneva (Picture: AP)

    Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 5, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

    The diplomat’s resignation will be another bitter blow for Putin as it originates from among Russia’s elites (Picture: AP)

    Mr Bondarev likewise stated Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is everything about ‘warmongering, lies and hatred’.

    On the battleground, Russian forces stepped up their barrage of the Donbas, the eastern commercial heartland of coal mines and factories the Kremlin is so set on recording.

    Cities not under Russian control are continuously shelled, with one Ukrainian main implicating Putin’s forces of targeting civilians attempting to leave.

    FILe - An aerial view of a residential area destroyed by Russian shelling in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, May 21, 2022.Americans are becoming less supportive of punishing Russia for launching its invasion of Ukraine if it comes at the expense of the U.S. economy, a sign of rising anxiety over inflation and other challenges. That's according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

    Russian bombs have actually left a path of damage throughout Ukraine (Picture: AP)

    Donetsk’s local guv, Pavlo Kyrylenko, stated 3 civilians passed away in Russian attacks on Monday as heavy combating continued near the Luhansk area.

    He stated the Russians were destructive cities in their effort to take control of.

    Only about 320,000 individuals out of the area’s pre-war population of 1.6 million still stay.

    ‘They are killing us. They are killing the locals during evacuation,’ Mr Kyrylenko included.

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