Russian media began to call both ATO security forces and militias “radicals”
Moscow - Kyiv, September 22 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Russian media began a campaign to equate Donbass militias with ATO security forces, calling both “radicals.” Minsk-2 froze the conflict and thwarted the plans of “radicals on both sides” - “both Kyiv and Donetsk,” rejoices the columnist of today’s Kommersant, Maxim Yusin.
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“Supporters of a forceful solution on both sides have very little time left—a month or a month and a half at most,” writes a newspaper columnist. – Then the autumn thaw will come in the east of Ukraine. Tanks and armored personnel carriers will get stuck in the mud, and thoughts of a large-scale offensive will have to be postponed until spring. That is, Ukrainian and Donetsk-Lugansk radicals should act now.”
But Minsk-2, according to Yusin, “in many ways crossed out the plans of the radicals - both those from Kyiv, who dream of taking revenge for the defeats of the last month, and those from Donetsk, who are trying to “correct” the front line in their favor, seize Mariupol and return Slavyansk. Now it will be much more difficult.
New agreements set a different logic of events. If they can be implemented, if hundreds of OSCE observers appear on the confrontation line, if heavy artillery is withdrawn 15 km to the rear, and a no-fly zone is established over the conflict zone, this will be a serious bid for a real truce. The fact that the conflict will move from a hot phase to a frozen one. How other conflicts in the former USSR - Transnistria, Karabakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia - passed at different times and with varying degrees of “freezing,” the columnist summarizes with satisfaction.
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