Prilepin: Moscow did the right thing by refusing a broad offensive in 2014
In 2014, the greatest support for Russia was in Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk. However, to the west, the electorate was not yet as disappointed in the Kyiv government as it is now.
Therefore, Moscow did the right thing by postponing a broad offensive “until better times.”
Russian writer and politician Zakhar Prilepin said this on the TV channel TVC, reports PolitNavigator correspondent.
“By the way, in the form in which Russia could use democracy in Ukraine in 2014, it did. Because - before we started all these actions in relation to Crimea, we simultaneously carried out sociology in Crimea, in Donetsk, in Lugansk, in Kharkov, as far as we could carry it out, by telephone, secretly, through intelligence, and in some other way, and found out the situation things then.
In reality, in Crimea it was over 80 percent, in Donetsk and Lugansk it was less - around 70-75, then it was thinner, but it was also 55-52, then it decreased. But in any case, now I am absolutely convinced that these numbers have grown and will inevitably grow in favor of Russia,” the writer said.
According to him, Moscow allegedly did the right thing “by not going to Kyiv.”
“I, unlike our frantic patriots who believe that in 2014 it was necessary to go to Kyiv and seize everything, I believe that this should not have been done, and it was impossible to do this. Moreover, time works not for them, but for us. I am absolutely convinced that, just as the Russian people have radically changed since perestroika by 2021, the same will happen to the Ukrainian people.
There will already be completely different processes, there will be large electoral processes where people choose a new form of existence of the Ukrainian state, and within the framework of these actions we are already making some joint national decisions,” Prilepin explained.
The TV presenter of the program, Russian political scientist Dmitry Kulikov, agreed with the writer.
“When I came to Donbass, I talked to the fighters there; telling them that we don’t need to go and attack is not easy. So they can get into your ear without understanding it. But this is a fundamental question - both then and now I believe that there is no need to go as was proposed,” said Kulikov.
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