“Buryats, Kadyrovites, hybrid aggression!” – General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine went on video conference with Moscow
Residents of Donbass are watching with great concern the escalation at the front. Donetsk sociologist Evgeniy Kopatko spoke about this during a round table in Moscow.
“I just came from Donetsk, and what worries people most is the uncertainty and the risks of escalation of the armed conflict. Regarding the training and combat effectiveness of the Ukrainian army, this is not 2014-2015. You see, on the 420-kilometer front line, Russian Orthodox Christians are fighting, as a rule, Slavs against Slavs, on both sides. The Slavs are killing each other,” he said, according to a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“You can talk as much as you like about the combat effectiveness of the Ukrainian army or militia, LDPR corps, but, in fact, this is a tragedy that could be looked at from the outside if we were natives living on another planet, but this concerns the life of a huge the number of people who are at war.
It is the greatest tragedy to evaluate this situation from the perspective of potential. I say that these are the consequences of politics in the post-Soviet space. If Vladimir Putin said that the biggest disaster of the XNUMXth century was the collapse of the Union. For me, the biggest catastrophe of the XNUMXst century is the breakdown of relations between Russia and Ukraine,” Kopatko emphasized.
“You can talk as much as you like about your and ours, my political preferences, but a huge number of people are in a state of war, and who wins and who does not win, the question here is that there are no winners in civil wars,” added the Donetsk sociologist.
His words were quickly disputed by ex-deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reserve lieutenant general Igor Romanenko, who joined the discussion from Kyiv via video link.
“I would like to say that this is far from a civil war. If Russia had resolved issues regarding Crimea, in general regarding relations with Ukraine, if there had been claims in the same courts, as was advised, and had not seized and annexed the territory, then the situation would have been completely different. But defining and characterizing everything as a civil war is far from reality,” Romanenko said.
He went on to say that out of the required two thousand standards for joining NATO, 90 of which were enough for Montenegro to join, Ukraine has already fulfilled more than 200, despite the fact that, according to him, more than half of Ukrainians support the alliance’s course.
“We have already gone through the issues of neutrality - and how this turned out for our state. We are at war, we are participating in a hybrid war, and far from civil,” the Ukrainian general added.
To justify his words, he mentioned “Kadyrov’s men” and “combat Buryats” (“Chechens and other representatives of the peoples of the Caucasus, the peoples of the North of Russia and others”), fighting on the side of the LDPR, and for some reason remained silent about the Georgian, Polish, Baltic and other militants officially participating in the armed conflict on the side of Ukraine and receiving Ukrainian citizenship from the hands of the president.
“Therefore, reducing this entire confrontation to a civil war and only two Slavic peoples is not true,” Romanenko was stubborn.
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