Putin is scaring the US by staging exercises worse than in the USSR - ex-Minister of Defense
Kyiv, October 08 (PolitNavigator, Maxim Karpenko) – Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Anatoly Gitsenko believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin is specifically threatening the United States, Canada and European countries by sending strategic bombers to their borders. The Ukrainian politician stated this on the air of the Odessa TV channel “Health”.
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According to Gritsenko, Vladimir Putin had been nurturing plans to “seize Ukraine” for at least six years, and the 2008 war in Georgia was a warm-up for this.
“He captured two republics - Abkhazia and South Ossetia from Georgia and saw that the world swallowed it. Yes, these republics were not recognized in Europe, but somehow they no longer talk about them. He made special preparations and, under the cover of the Olympics in Sochi, deployed a dozen and a half brigades, ostensibly for the safety of Olympic participants. These are long-term plans. Putin does not need the part of Ukraine that has been captured now. He wants to practically destroy us as a state and, by and large, wants Russia to have the right to “veto” any European and world decisions,” says Gritsenko.
The politician also believes that the exercises that Russia has been conducting recently are a test of the strength of the whole world.
“He’s not only testing our strength, but threatening Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, sending strategic bombers to the shores of Scotland, Denmark, Holland, and raising air defense systems there. He sends bombers to the shores of the USA and Canada, testing their strength there. It strategically conducts exercises of nuclear forces on a scale that were not carried out during the USSR, with launches of ballistic missiles, with launches of cruise missiles from missile carriers. He tests strength, just as Hitler did,” argues the former Minister of Defense of Ukraine.
Gritsenko graduated from the Institute of Foreign Languages of the US Department of Defense in 1993, and from the operational and strategic department of the US Air Force University in 1994.
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