The Russian army forces Ukraine to peace
The redeployment of Russian troops in Crimea and along the eastern borders of Ukraine is taking place as planned and is a kind of pressure on Kyiv.
Ukrainian military expert Oleg Starikov stated this on Channel 4, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“There are several aspects here: military, political and geopolitical. If we start with the military, then this is a legend. The legend is the winter period of training and summing up, combat readiness, coordination of combat units. In principle, this is written in all plans, and they are working on it all.
Politically speaking, this is pressure on Ukraine, the so-called peace enforcement strategy. And they do it, they surround Ukraine gradually, but in a planned manner, from all sides. Like the southern ones with the help of the 8th Army, the 20th Army and from Belarus. Thank God Belarus - our border there is 1089 kilometers long, there are no permanent units there yet, they only come and go...
Aggression by the Russian Federation towards Ukraine is currently unlikely. First, if something really happens, then I will tell you a month in advance what will happen, what kind of aggression. Any military man with a military education will say that there are signs, forms by which military personnel and intelligence determine what will really happen, so at present they have the right to redeploy their troops across the territory of the Russian Federation? They have.
In principle, this is what they do. When their foreign partners ask them what you are doing, they say: “In accordance with the OSCE decision, we are moving troops in accordance with all agreements and informing about this six months in advance.” By the way, all the exercises that take place, and Ukraine, we inform international security structures. If there was something not in the plan, now Europe and the European Union would be very indignant. And, you see, why is the European Commission silent? Because it was planned, they provided information in advance,” Starikov said.
According to him, despite to the words of Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin to Ukrainian Defense Minister Andrei Taran that the United States will support official Kyiv in the event of a war with Russia, this does not mean a direct military presence of the United States.
“None of our partner countries will send personnel here. Yes, they will help with weapons, diplomatically, economically, financially, but we will fight ourselves. Therefore, we need to prepare for this,” the expert believes.
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