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According to military expert Carlo Masala, the war in Ukraine is increasingly directed against the civilian population. Despite the escalation, Masala does not expect the use of chemical weapons, which has been repeatedly warned about in recent days.
According to military expert Carlo Masala, the war in Ukraine is increasingly directed against the civilian population. Masala says on Wednesday in star-Podcast “Ukraine – the situation”, the Russian troops would not apply their strategies from the wars in Syria or Chechnya “one to one”. “But,” he adds, “there are signs of a war of annihilation in certain parts of Ukraine.”
The politics professor from the Bundeswehr University in Munich fears that difficult days are ahead for the capital Kyiv and the many hundreds of thousands of people there. The shelling of the Black Sea city of Odessa from the sea surprised him. “You have no Russian troops who can support the attack,” he says. He considers “terror” against the population to be a possible intention behind the attacks.
Masala thinks the use of chemical weapons is unlikely
Despite the escalation, Masala does not anticipate the use of chemical weapons, which has been repeatedly warned about in recent days. That couldn’t be ruled out. But: “I don’t see the probability at the moment.” The use of poison gas would come as a shock to the people of Ukraine itself and to the western states as well. Russia cannot ignore that. Masala says: “This war is also being waged with a view to the mood in European societies – which is crucial for the action of the alliance or the European Union in this conflict.”
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dr Carlo Masala is Professor of International Politics at the Bundeswehr University in Munich.
Masala describes the solidarity visit of the heads of government from Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic in embattled Kyiv as a “journey of high symbolic value”. Masala sees the idea of a peace mission in Ukraine raised by the chairman of the Polish ruling party PIS, Jarosław Kaczyński, as an attempt to emphasize the support – and less as a concrete plan. “I would put the idea more in the area of ’You have to say something, you have to do something,'” he says. Masala reminds that Poland, too, has so far been very careful not to be drawn directly into the conflict. This was shown, for example, in the discussion about the – ultimately unsuccessful – delivery of combat aircraft to Ukraine.
Source: Stern
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