Pogrebinsky: For Russia, the situation in Ukraine has come to the brink
NATO’s military presence on the territory of Ukraine is becoming a critical threat to Russia – it was no coincidence that Vladimir Putin recalled that a significant part of the cities in the south of the former Soviet republic were built by the Russian Empire on the site of a wild field.
Political scientist Mikhail Pogrebinsky stated this on the First Independent TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The part of Ukraine that was being populated, it was actually a deserted space, was populated from Russia. Russia built cities there. For example, Nikolaev, Kherson, Odessa were built by the Russian Empire through the efforts of the center, St. Petersburg...
Now the situation has come to a point after which today’s Ukrainian statehood may or may become a threat to the security of the Russian Federation.
For simplicity, I will say this - if this process moves the way Zelensky and this whole company wants, which invites here the base of the British, US Navy and so on - Ochakov, Nikolaev, Kherson, if this process continues to move, then how will this end? This will then naturally end with the installation of offensive missiles, which can actually reach Moscow in a time that does not allow it to react at all.
And Moscow views this as a direct threat to the existence of Russian statehood. What should she do in these circumstances? Putin in this article, he said before that there are all sorts of dangerous processes that are taking place in Ukraine, but in this article he clearly said that Russia cannot allow this “red line” to be crossed"- said Pogrebinsky.
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