
Sergiy Kyslytsya’s harsh suggestion came during a discussion on the Russian president’s decision to order Russian nuclear forces on high alert following intensifying Western sanctions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Kyslytsya said Putin’s escalation was basically a death wish.“If [Putin] wants to kill himself, he doesn’t need to use nuclear arsenal,” Kyslytsya said. “He has to do what the guy in Berlin did in a bunker in May 1945.”Kyslytsya’s comments ratcheted up his scorn for Russia.“There is no purgatory for war criminals,” Kyslytsya told Nebenzya. “They go straight to hell, Ambassador.”