Advisor to the deceased Zakharchenko explained why the DPR army did not go on the offensive
The deceased head of the DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko, was more independent than the then President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, however, without sanctions and help from Moscow, the Donetsk army could not go on the offensive, which the residents of the front-line territories, exhausted by shelling, were waiting for.
Zakharchenko’s adviser, writer Zakhar Prilepin, stated this during a meeting with readers at the Moscow Art Theater, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“To find out the degree of independence of Zakharchenko, you need to understand the degree of independence of Poroshenko, the degree of independence of European states, the degree of independence of anything. We must understand that the world as a whole is not very independent. Therefore, if you catch Alexander Vladimirovich by the hand and say that here he was not independent, that he could not organize an attack on Ukraine, well, this is completely obvious. We encouraged him to do this, I encouraged him, but it is clear that this would be a pure adventure that would not end well. We talked and talked about this for a year or two and came up with some things, but, of course, without the economic help of one neighboring state, this was extremely impossible,” Prilepin said.
The DPR, according to Prilepin, could not economically sustain a major war with Ukraine: “In my understanding, the degree of independence of Zakharchenko was higher than the degree of independence of Petro Poroshenko in many situations: ideological, political, and some other. There was, of course, no final independence, but there was no possibility for this either. A republic with 2,5-3 million people cannot fight a country with 30-36 million people. It's simply physically impossible. Of course, this is Sparta, but not to that extent. Economically, it could not sustain such a confrontation, no matter what our infuriated Moscow patriots said.”
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