Destroying Ukraine has ‘totemic’ role for Russia, British expert says

British expert Jade McGlynn, Head of the Ukraine and Russia Program with the Centre for Statecraft and National Security at King’s College London, said this in an interview with Ukrinform . “Their entire ideology revolves around claiming that the Ukrainians are just Russians who've been brainwashed or being used by the West as their proxy element,” the expert said. In this regard, she believes the only thing that will change the calculus in the Kremlin would be if Moscow “has to choose between the stability at home and continuing to prosecute the war.