Putin Adopts Nazi Strategy With Strikes On Ukraine’s Most Sacred Sites
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- Aerospace & Defense Putin Adopts Nazi Strategy With Strikes On Ukraine’s Most Sacred Sites By Kevin Holden Platt,
- Would-be neo-Tsar Vladimir Putin launched his armed quest to recreate the Russian empire, starting with Ukraine, just as Hitler set out to create a Greater German Reich by crushing and conquering surrounding states.
- The Nazis started their attacks on religious citadels by burning Jewish synagogues across Germany during the infamous Kristallnacht strikes in 1938.
Aerospace & Defense Putin Adopts Nazi Strategy With Strikes On Ukraine’s Most Sacred Sites By Kevin Holden Platt,
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kevin Holden Platt writes on space defense, Space X, ISS, Space War I Follow Author Jun 28, 2026, 07:47pm EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.An airstrike on the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery complex left the site in flames, and is part of Russia's crusade to target Ukraine's most sacred sites, a strategy based on the battle tactics spearheaded by the Nazis in their crusade to conquer all of Europe (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty ImagesWith escalating airstrikes on ancient cathedrals and synagogues across Ukraine, and targeted killings of religious leaders, Russian President Vladimir Putin is reviving the war strategies of Adolph Hitler and his Nazi storm troopers, says an American scholar tracking the likely war crimes committed by Kremlin commandants during their invasion of democratic Ukraine.
Just days after Moscow dispatched bomber aircraft to destroy a thousand-year-old monastery complex in the capital Kyiv, one of the most sacred centers of the Eastern Orthodox Church, an expert on Russia’s exploding human rights violations during its missile and drone blitzes says its rulers are copying the playbook of the Nazi Party as it waged war on religious patriarchs and worshippers throughout Germany, and then across Europe.