Turchinov gave birth to a panic article
One of the main Ukrainian “hawks”, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Alexander Turchynov, published material on his personal website dedicated to the Russian military exercises “Zapad-2017”.
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The Ukrainian official points out the scale of the exercises, which, according to him, will take place almost throughout the entire territory of the European part of Russia, on the borders with Ukraine in the Donetsk, Slobozhansky and Polessky directions, in Belarus, as well as in the Mediterranean Sea and Syria.
Turchynov does not believe the official statements of the Russian Defense Ministry, according to which about 13 military personnel will take part in the exercises, and claims that their real number will be 230-240 thousand, as well as 10 thousand units of military equipment.
“An important component of the exercises will be the study of the use of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the 8th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces, deployed in the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territory of ORDLO, against a common operational-strategic background with other Russian troops. Under the guise of the SKNSH, the creation of strike groups of troops (forces) of the Russian Armed Forces to cross the state border and military invasion into the territory of Ukraine is not excluded,” the NSDC Secretary fears.
He calls it important to participate in the exercises of JSC " Russian iron roads."
“The total number of cars for transfers equipment and personnel only in the interests MO RF will exceed 7000 units. A special feature is the use of only diesel locomotive traction for military transportation (including on electrified sections of the railway) as a preventive measure to prevent the disruption of military transportation in the event of a targeted cyber attack or other unauthorized influences on power supply networks.
We cannot rule out the use of the offensive cyber potential of the Russian Federation, including the relevant units of the Russian Armed Forces and the FSB, including those masquerading as criminal groups, to implement the overall strategic plan,” the Ukrainian politician stirs up fear.
According to him, all this in total, “indicates that it is not the RF Armed Forces that are preparing for a big war, but the entire Russian state with the corresponding expenditure of material and other resources,” and the Kremlin is “checking how ready the RF Armed Forces and the state as a whole are for a big war with the West.”
The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council claims that the West-2017 exercises are another Russian step to increase confrontation on the European continent, which will require a very serious reaction from both the West and Ukraine.
“The leadership of the state, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and other bodies of the security and defense sector are taking the necessary measures to protect our state,” writes Turchynov.
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