Saakashvili: Putin’s goal is to cut off Ukraine from the sea, Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk
Russia failed to quickly implement the plan to create a land corridor to Crimea, but Moscow does not abandon it, also counting on the capture of Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk.
Ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, now working in Petro Poroshenko’s team, stated this at a security forum in Kyiv.
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“If there is widespread social discontent with the authorities in Ukraine, he can use this for an offensive. And he will want to cut off Ukraine from the sea, making a corridor to Crimea. This was planned in the initial plans, but the blitzkrieg failed.
However, there are people like Ivanov who believe that they really need Kharkov, even Dnepropetrovsk, because there is a powerful military-industrial complex there. They would like to establish control over him.
So, cut off Ukraine from the sea and seize its defense industry - until this happens, he will consider that no goals have been achieved. Because having only Donbass with mines that need to be subsidized is not success, this is not its ultimate goal. The ports of Odessa and Mariupol are important to him,” says Saakashvili.
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