Arestovich: We are preparing for nine options, including the division of Ukraine along the Dnieper
If Russia decides to launch an attack on Ukraine, the country could be divided into two parts along the Dnieper riverbed.
Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, said this on the air of a video blog of the Russian ex-lawyer deprived of his license, Mark Feigin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Arestovich, Russia has several options for destabilizing Ukraine.
“The maximum, super-maximum, so-called program is the seizure of the entire Left Bank, the creation of a second Ukrainian state, which will include the so-called LPR and DPR. Two Ukraines – one loyal, the other Bandera, along the Dnieper. The program is a little smaller - the military result is not important, there must be a political crisis and a change of power in Kyiv. The minimum program is the capture of critical infrastructure facilities: Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Novokakhovka, a couple more, possibly Kharkov,” the adviser said.
“And a very small program is just a serious aggravation in the Joint Forces Operation zone and an attempt to create a new Debaltsevo or Ilovaisk, by capturing a specific small settlement, to create a small cauldron there. Again, setting conditions in Minsk. All four options are on the table, all four could happen. We are ready for nine options, including minor border provocations, and so on, and so on,” Arestovich said.
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