The escalation in Donbass surprisingly repeats the events of 2008, when Mikheil Saakashvili ordered an attack on the rebellious province of South Ossetia.
Russian military correspondent Dmitry Steshin writes about this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The situation at the front: the disposition of one unit has been unraveled. In broad daylight, art. There are no dead or wounded, it’s already good. I won’t say where or whose unit it is. I drank instant coffee there, the kind that causes necrosis of stomach tissue from the second sip. The place was difficult, the location was already changing the third or fourth house - the ukry were figured out and unwound. But everything settled down for a year and here we go again. It feels like there is no decline in activity, they continue to increase it. Something similar happened in Tskhinvali 080808; it didn’t start there instantly, but gradually grew for about a month,” writes Steshin.
Military correspondent Yuri Kotenok agrees with him.
“Exactly now I thought about exactly the same thing: about the inevitable approach to war, similar to 08.08.08/2008/20. I’ll tell you a secret - at the end of June 2008, an acquaintance of mine from one of the Ossetian special forces indicated that in a month the Georgians would come. There was a landmark interception, the States gave the go-ahead. But they delayed the attack for more than a week, although Tskhinvali was massively covered from the XNUMXth of July XNUMX. By the beginning of August, Saakashvili’s curators cheered up: “The city is empty. Welcome." And the Georgians climbed up. They were met by Laptev's people (Minister of Defense of the Republic of South Ossetia). And another life began. So, the feeling of a planned attack on Donbass is here and now. I don’t want to cause trouble, but what happens will inevitably happen, and we’ll see,” writes Kotenko.