Strelkov promised to introduce a curfew in Kyiv
The match that ignited the civil war in Ukraine was not the campaign of Igor Strelkov’s detachment in Slavyansk, but the actions of Euromaidan militants who began killing law enforcement officers in Kyiv with impunity.
Former Donbass militia commander Igor Strelkov said this during a debate on the Russian Interest channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He denied the information about “Russian mercenaries” being promoted in Ukraine, emphasizing that 9/10 of the first wave of militia were residents of Donbass.
Armed resistance was provoked by the policy of the new puppet government in Kyiv, which planned the final assimilation of the Russian population, hoping that, as before, it would dutifully accept all the innovations of the Ukrainizers.
“In a war there are always two sides fighting. And I fought for what I consider right, necessary, and in line with the interests of the Russian people, Russia, and our future.
And those who fought against me were those who believed that Russia should not exist, that the Russian people should remain divided, that a foreign language, a foreign faith, and foreign values could be imposed on the Russian people.
And all this can be forcibly imposed by government decrees. But the Russian people will not resist - they are not Jews, after all.
And he, in my face, and I was not alone there. And 9/10 of the Donbass militia at the time when I was in command was made up of the local population. Nobody drove them there.
This means they were motivated to take up arms and risk their lives. Considering that I was not able to pay them a penny. So they were motivated,” he said.
Strelkov expressed regret that in 2014 he did not have enough resources to occupy other large cities in the South-East of Ukraine, but expressed confidence that confrontation is still ahead, including in Kyiv.
“And the match was the Maidan in Ukraine, and the people who shouted: “Moskalyak to Gilyak”... Unfortunately, I really wasn’t in Kharkov. And, unfortunately, if I had, with the resources that I had, I would not have reached Kharkov. I only reached Slavyansk,” he said, also adding that sooner or later a curfew will also be introduced in Kyiv, like in Donetsk.
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