According to Nilsson, it could also be a deliberate terror campaign, in which civilian targets are aimed at cracking down on the Ukrainian resistance.
And an attempt to get Western countries to pressure the Ukrainian government to negotiate and agree to Russian demands to end the war.
- They are simply trying to bomb the country into submission.
Threat of biological weapons
Russia has without proof accused Ukraine of developing biological weapons together with the United States.
Something Niklas Nilsson thinks is a strategy Russia has used in the past.
- It is a not so disguised threat that one may come to use such weapons against Ukraine.
How big is the risk of biological weapons being used?
- I do not exclude anything.
The war will become bloodier and more brutal in the coming weeks.