WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

[Ravenlocke]

https://twitter.com/Angelo4justice3/...27940501172227

https://twitter.com/mdfzeh/status/1570871735549054976

[Mike Gorman]

The information war, and overt propaganda stakes are once again revealed in this conflict: NATO/USA vs Russia

[norman]

Situation Update, Sep 16, 2022 - The economic ANNIHILATION of Europe - Gonzalo Lira and Mike Adams

The interview begins at 7 min 40 sec



https://www.brighteon.com/63f0b0f4-1...a-a3328ebb62ac


Audio podcast version:
https://podbay.fm/p/the-health-range...t/e/1663338180


Gonzalo Lira, the Ukraine-based, Chilean-born American who has made waves with his uncensored videos (see his YouTube channel here) and roundtable discussions about Russia and Ukraine, joined me for an epic 2+ hour interview late last night. We discussed topics like:

– Why Ukraine’s counter offensive was a victory for Russia
– Description of the losses of Ukraine’s military men and equipment
– Why western politicians and media talking heads are incompetent and wrong
– “Suicide sanctions” and the self-inflicted annihilation of Europe
– How Western Europe will be reduced to an impoverished wasteland
– Why Putin prefers to AVOID escalation of this war
– The destruction of European industry, followed by finance
– Details on the expected wave of civil unrest across Europe, and the weaponization of government to brutally repress public protests


Situation Update, Sep 17, 2022 - The economic ANNIHILATION of Europe - Gonzalo Lira and Mike Adams (Part 2)
https://podbay.fm/p/the-health-range...t/e/1663397455


Brighteon video version:
https://www.brighteon.com/fe11c716-1...f-7b9475e2618e


my own note:

I think Gonzalo and is ilk are in for a massive shock when the truth train hooter goes full doppler effect past them.

He has no idea what's going on at the big picture level. He seems to be enjoying being a youtube star too much and has layed out his stall for the duration.

[Tintin]

This, but date unknown. It may have been back in May this year - with English subtitles

[Tintin]

Update from Maria Zakharova's weekly briefing of September 15, 2022:

Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

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Donbass and Ukraine update



The special military operation underway in Ukraine and Donbass has convincingly proved the numerous statements made by the Russian authorities: we are fighting the “collective West” in Ukraine. The long-term goal of that Western-inspired “collectivism” is to “defeat Russian on the battlefield” at all costs, and until the last Ukrainian. Ukraine is not a hostage. I think the situation has changed. It is no longer used as an instrument. Ukraine is being consistently destroyed by its handlers, who promised it a bright future. Frankly, I never thought that Ukraine’s “bright future” would be so tragic and horrible.

Recent proof of this was provided by high-ranking US officials, including National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, in the September 13 issue of The New York Times. They admitted that the US military had been planning the “counteroffensive” in the Kharkov Region for the past few months, including by providing intelligence information and strike weapons to the Kiev regime.

I wonder if it was the Ukrainian Armed Forces or the combined forces of Ukraine and the West? This is more than just advisory services or psychological and moral support. This is a direct large-scale involvement with predictable consequences. CNN has recently reported – I have to cite CNN because it is an American source reporting American information, which should be accepted as reliable proof in the United States. The Americans don’t believe other sources. CNN has not yet been declared a “foreign agent” in the United States, which is why I am citing it – CNN has written that, according to Pentagon officials, they were preparing detailed analysis and working out how to support Ukraine’s military in the medium- and long-term, not only during the special military operation, which the Americans expect to last a long time, but also for five years after it has ended. This is proof of US’s interest in drawing out the fighting in Ukraine for as long as possible and in controlling the situation. This is proof of the United States’ direct involvement in the hostilities.

A report and recommendations on security guarantees for Ukraine, which were presented the other day by a group of experts led by Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office Andrey Yermak and former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, serve the same purpose. They provide for the continued delivery of Western weapons to Ukraine and the training of its military to fight Russia. We remember former US President George W. Bush saying several months ago that Ukraine’s “mission is to destroy as many Russian troops as you can.” It appears that there is a highly unethical meaning to lofty words. It is not “security guarantees” for Ukraine, but a desire to kill us. In the past, the West didn’t say so openly. It said that we are unacceptably different, that we should be reformed, adjusted and straightened out, and that teaching us would take a long time. They have now changed the tone and say openly that Russians must be killed.

The fifth meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group held at the Ramstein Air Base on September 8 was held in the same spirit. They announced a new package of US military assistance to Ukraine worth $675 million, which will include ammunition for HIMARS artillery rocket systems.

Emboldened by the recent Western promises, the Zelensky regime is ready to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian lives (and the lives of numerous mercenaries) to receive large-scale military and financial assistance from the United States and its NATO allies, because Kiev knows that otherwise it won’t last long. This is part of a huge corruption scheme involving the transfer and laundering of Western funds via the Kiev regime.

Indicative against this backdrop is Kiev’s increasingly aggressive rhetoric on the importance of fighting Russia until its destruction. Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council Alexey Danilov has openly declared Ukraine’s plans to return to the 1991 borders and ensure the surrender and demilitarisation of Russia, which must pay “huge reparations.”

We are especially alarmed by the numerous reports about the filtration activities of the Ukrainian security services and neo-Nazi units in the territories which the allied forces have left as part of their regrouping plans. Do you like the term “filtration activities?” It has to do with thousands of people. There is no telling what the Ukrainian military are doing to them. In fact, they are doing what they wish, in particular, murdering people. This is not a matter of justice, because there is no justice where the armed forces of Ukraine are. We know what they have done to prisoners of war. They are doing the same to the people in the course of “filtration.”

This is absolute, outrageous lawlessness, which has nothing in common with humanitarian law. I would like to remind you that thousands of people, peaceful civilians are being subjected to “filtration processes.” The Kiev authorities have announced plans to identify those who support Russia or hold Russian passports and to punish them for “treason and collaboration” with Russia. They emphasise that all citizens will be subjected to forced Ukrainisation. And this is happening in the 21st century.

Ukrainian Telegram channels are full of the personal data and photographs of hundreds of people who the Ukrainian punitive forces are accusing of “treason.” They are people who refuse to declare loyalty to the Banderites and do not accept the nationalist logic. They have received death threats, as we know from Telegram. The Kiev regime is destroying them physically. According to witnesses, the Ukrainian military are guilty of looting, torture, beating and execution of civilians. They are videotaping the results of their crimes, probably so they can shift the blame onto Russia later. They need to invent new tricks that they can report to those who have set the task of killing as many Russians as they can. Since the bloody provocation in Bucha has shown what the Zelensky regime can do, we urge the international organisations concerned to use their influence on Kiev to stop it from butchering peaceful citizens. This must be done immediately, if you want to be regarded as humanitarian organisations.

We have taken note of the allegations made by Adviser to the Head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office Mikhail Podolyak on the Israeli Kan 11 television channel about Russia’s plans to attack Jewish pilgrims visiting the burial site of the Hasidic Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav in Uman, Cherkassy Region, during Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year celebrated on September 25-27. Although it is an absurd thought, these allegations must be taken seriously because they are coming from the regime in Kiev, which has more than once attempted to play on the sentiments of ultrareligious Jews and is brutal enough to use this opportunity to create another anti-Russia provocation.

The actions of the “collective West” and its puppet regime in Kiev are proof of the urgent importance of achieving the goals and objectives of the special military operation. This importance is growing with every passing day. There is a deep political meaning in our efforts to protect people in Donbass, the goals of demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine declared by the Russian authorities, and the elimination of threats emanating from Ukraine to Russia and other neighbouring states. Together with like-minded people, we are fighting for the truth and against the rising Nazism and revisionism, the ultimate goal of which is, by and large, dehumanisation. We are fighting for a multipolar world and the right of sovereign states to live and develop without the never-ending pressure and threats from the United States and its Western allies.

Washington has thrown the Kiev regime to the slaughter. Ukrainian statehood has been destroyed. A vast number of people – the military and civilians of Ukraine and Russia, as well as mercenaries who have been brainwashed or are doing this for a large pay – have fallen victim to US ambitions. Who will be the next? In what other part of the world will Washington and its NATO satellites conduct such experiments based on hybrid technologies? I can answer this question: they will do this where there are natural resources, oil, gas, gold and fresh water, which they need to replenish their own reserves. They will do this in the countries where people refuse to surrender what belongs to them historically, where they tilled land, gathered in harvests, brought up children and protected their land for many generations. It is in these countries that attempts to spread democracy will be made. US-led NATO will do what they wish there under false flags, at the same time speaking about freedom and democracy and trying to impose their “liberal values” aimed at corrupting people.



Use of anti-personnel mines by Ukraine



Numerous cases of anti-personnel mine use by the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been documented in the course of the special military operation. This happens in violation of Kiev’s obligations under the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, an obligation Ukraine assumed as a state. This is apropos international law, and how its implementation is interpreted.

Anti-personnel mines were installed in numerous Donbass communities, particularly in public areas frequented by civilians. Vladimir Zelensky calls these people his compatriots. In effect, some people are herded into filtration camps, while others are driven onto minefields, so as not lose precious time in the camps. Every day, these mines kill civilians, including children. The use of butterfly anti-personnel mines against civilians is the most glaring example. Ukrainian service personnel actively plant these mines in cities, towns and villages. Yes, it’s not the same as a trolleybus fragment displayed by Petr Poroshenko all over the world, nor is it the same as passports that he showed at the Munich Conference, or a brick. The Kiev regime plants these mines and uses them against civilians. It plants them in public places, and not on battlefields.

These criminal actions of the Kiev regime also directly violate Amended Protocol II, which bans and restricts the use of mines and booby traps against civilians, their installation at non-military sites and in such a way that may cause accidental fatalities among civilians. People in Kiev will tell you that they are not doing this. Of course, they are not looking for chance victims, they hit civilians in a deliberate and vile manner.

These facts show that Ukrainian authorities’ complete disregard for international humanitarian law, including the Protocol Additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions. At the same time, we note that the collective West does not show any interest in an unbiased investigation or a search for those responsible for creating the current disastrous humanitarian situation. It turns a blind eye to Ukraine’s numerous violations of international conventions.

Just imagine if something of the kind happened in Syria. Imagine if the White Helmets planted such mines or their fragments using the money they got from the West. This would cause quite a stir: news conferences, roundtables, Hollywood stars presenting entire programmes in support of the victims and condemnation of the culprits. They would devote entire news reports to this issue. Posters with photos of innocent victims would be plastered everywhere. Films, video clips and songs on this subject would be released. I am sure that signs on this matter would decorate grandstands, and world leaders would address their audiences while posing in front of the victims’ photos. And what do we see here? The answer is simple: these people who are dying now belong to a different category. Western humanitarian law and simple human compassion do not apply to these people. This is what Nazism is all about, when they divide people into those who can be sympathised with and those seen as expendable.

We urge all UN member states, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other specialised international organisations to influence Kiev authorities and to force them to take effective action to prevent dire humanitarian consequences for the civilian population.

[Baby Steps]

I know a Ukrainian refugee in London. She is Crimean/ethnically Russian. She became a refugee and left for the uk because the Ukrainian government withdrew official recognition of her professional qualifications that she had studied for
ten years to gain . This was because the courses were taken in Russian, not Ukrainian . Career wiped.

By the time this is over, assuming it does not escalate to global catastrophe we will see:

- the usa deep state military industrial complex vastly enriched
- the usa tax payer burdened with billions in debt to achieve these transfers
- hundreds of thousands of dead Ukrainians and a destroyed country
- most assets of Ukraine - land, industry, energy, marine exploration rights transferred to western interests via predatory debt.
- people like Zelensky sitting on their yachts enjoying their pay offs


It’s a plan - not a random sequence of events

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by norman (here)
Situation Update, Sep 16, 2022 - The economic ANNIHILATION of Europe - Gonzalo Lira and Mike Adams

I think Gonzalo and is ilk are in for a massive shock when the truth train hooter goes full doppler effect past them.

He has no idea what's going on at the big picture level. He seems to be enjoying being a youtube star too much and has layed out his stall for the duration.

I agree that Gonzalo is being naive when he insists that the chaos in the US/EU is merely because of incompetence and arrogance. (He continues to state this at the start of this second part.)

There's MUCH more to it than all that, and it's all carefully orchestrated by a high, malevolent intelligence.

Here's Part 2:

https://www.brighteon.com/fe11c716-1...f-7b9475e2618e

Source: https://www.brighteon.com/embed/fe11c716-1d5d-466f-a86f-7b9475e2618e

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https://twitter.com/elenaevdokimov7/...31759512567809

[Ravenlocke]

https://www.rt.com/russia/562979-ukr...assports-jail/

Ukraine to jail people over Russian passports

A law proposed by the government in Kiev on Friday would see some Ukrainians who obtain Russian passports punished with lengthy prison terms. Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk insisted the measure is not aimed at ordinary Ukrainians, but officials who work with the “enemy state.”

The draft calls for a sentence of 10-15 years for any local or regional government employees who accept an “enemy” passport. Engaging in “propaganda for an enemy state” would carry a sentence of 5-8 years, while “compelling” Ukrainian citizens to accept an “enemy” passport would be punishable by 8-12 years behind bars.

Any Russian citizens engaging in “illegal passportization on the territory of Ukraine” would also be subject to these penalties, said Vereshchuk, whose portfolio is “reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories.”

She added that this type of law “should have been passed in 2014.” After the US-backed coup in Kiev in February that year, Crimea voted to rejoin Russia, while the Donbass regions of Donetsk and Lugansk declared independence. Kiev brutally suppressed protests in the Kharkov and Odessa regions, while sending the army into Donbass.

Zelensky aide says civilian officials are 'legitimate targets' READ MORE: Zelensky aide says civilian officials are 'legitimate targets'
Ukraine has been working on the draft since July, after blasting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to implement a fast-track citizenship procedure for any citizen of Ukraine. Many residents of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions have since availed themselves of the opportunity.

Earlier this month, Vereshchuk threatened anyone who would organize or participate in a vote to join Russia in the “occupied territories” with up to 12 years in prison and a confiscation of property, under the existing “collaboration” statute.

Last week, after Ukrainian troops moved into several cities in the Kharkov Region, following a “redeployment” of Russian forces, Vereshchuk announced that any teachers who had used the Russian curriculum would also face criminal charges. Meanwhile, Ukrainian state police said that “a reckoning” was coming for any civilians suspected of “collaboration” and set up “filtration” operations in the northeastern region.

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https://www.rt.com/russia/562976-zel...ilian-attacks/

Zelensky aide says civilian officials are 'legitimate targets'

The government in Kiev was behind deadly shelling in Kherson and it also organized the murder of two civilian officials in Berdyansk on Friday, Mikhail Podoliak, an aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, has confirmed.

However, Podoliak insisted these were not acts of terrorism but legitimate strikes against purely military targets.

“Everything that happened in Berdyansk, in Melitopol, in Kherson — those are all absolutely legitimate military targets. Those are certainly not terrorist or, strictly speaking, criminal acts,” Podoliak said.

At least three people were killed and 13 were wounded on Friday morning when five missiles from the US-supplied HIMARS launchers struck the administration building in Kherson, which is under Russian control. Most of them were civilian passers-by, local authorities said.

Kirill Stremousov, the deputy chair of the military-civilian administration, says the strike was intended to take him out. He survived only by chance, having accepted an invitation to appear in a TV talk show at the time of the shelling.

In Berdyansk, in the Russian-controlled part of the Zaporozhye Region, two officials of the local military-civilian administration were murdered on Friday morning. Oleg Boyko was in charge of housing and utilities, while his wife Lyudmila headed the local elections commission.

Casualties from Ukrainian shelling of Kherson revealed READ MORE: Casualties from Ukrainian shelling of Kherson revealed
An explosion that could be heard in Melitopol on Friday was a controlled demolition of unexploded ordnance, local official Vladimir Rogov said. However, the city headquarters of the organization ‘Together With Russia’ was damaged by a bomb last week.

Podoliak did not take credit for the assassination of the Lugansk People’s Republic head prosecutor Sergey Gorenko and his assistant Yekaterina Steglenko. They were killed on Friday when an improvised bomb detonated at the Prosecutor General’s Office in Lugansk. Assassinations by Ukrainian agents have claimed the lives of a number of Donetsk and Lugansk officials over the past seven years.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Ukraine has engaged in “terrorist attacks” against civilians and infrastructure, including attempts to damage nuclear facilities inside Russia. This behavior was unacceptable, he said, and if Kiev persists it will receive a “more serious” response from Moscow than a handful of “sensitive strikes” that damaged power stations and dams this week.

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[Bill Ryan]

In his video update for today, Alexander Mercouris analyzes Putin's press conference in Samarkand yesterday, in which the Russian media put questions to him — very directly! — about recent events in Ukraine, and Russia's response and current thinking or planning.

(Aside: not mentioned by Mercouris, though it's very very obvious, is the stark contrast between this press conference, including Putin's very detailed and frank answers to tough questions, and Biden's bumbling attempts to put sometimes even a few words together and his frequent refusal to take questions at all.)

Mercouris goes through this slowly and methodically, but listening carefully to his analysis and the points he stresses may be more helpful and illuminating that reading the lengthy transcripts on the Kremlin website.

The key significance of this is that there's every strong indication, pretty much from Putin's very words, that he is actively considering upgrading the SMO to an anti-terrorism operation. He seems very close to that now. (Apparently, unknown to the west and maybe even to most Russians, there were attempted terrorist attacks on or near nuclear power plants within Russia itself, no minor thing.)

Start in at 15:20. It's quite long and meticulous, but I found it extremely interesting.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JFAAowWtT6o

[shaberon]

Let me see if I am following this:


With the removal of the PM and the QE2 Britannia is going to "rule".


Ukrainian land is mostly owned by western companies. In recent years all labor-protective laws have been repealed, even minimum wage. This perhaps was an oligarchist's fantasy about slave labor underway here.

All Ukrainian thermal power plants were built by Communists from the 1950s-1980s.

One well-placed Kinjal causes rolling blackouts across the country, including most of Kiev, and trains that had never stopped in forty years. Ukraine has no capacity to build a power plant. And so you are going into the stone age, like, perhaps, effectively, Europe. All military equipment, and persons operating it, will be destroyed. At only one moment in time you were outnumbered by 450 helicopters and 230 planes, which can only cover anywhere in the entire country.


Meanwhile, western companies will try to buy Kazakhstan, and revolutionize the other Russian frontier countries they do not control firmly enough. The ones filled with biolabs. And we will continue to elect death cults until the human being is reduced to a form of algae. The civilized world might not, but chances are the western one will.

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https://www.rt.com/russia/562803-bes...-good-offence/

Leaked documents expose Ukrainian attempts to destabilize Russia and draw NATO into a full-scale war with Moscow


The best defense is a good offence. So goes one of the oldest principles of international relations.

And as Ukrainian documents now at the disposal of the media show, Moscow apparently had something to defend itself from when it launched its offensive in Ukraine. Over the past eight years, Kiev’s military and special services have been preparing numerous operations aimed at undermining Russia’s international ties, and internal peace itself.

In June, a hacker Telegram channel dubbed ‘Beregini’ published the action plan of the Information and Psychological Operations Department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SSO). According to official information, the tasks of this unit include working with the population of foreign countries, creating agent networks, and infiltrating special services and military organizations to conduct espionage and destroy people who pose a threat to the Ukrainian government (including in other countries), as well as preparing coups and the overthrow of regimes.

The SSO plan was prepared back in 2017, and this is just one of many similar secret documents created by Ukrainian spooks. It was just one that became public. But the presence of these plans and the real political and military steps taken by Ukraine, which coincide with SSO programs to a surprising extent, indicate that KI’ve has been actively carrying out anti-Russian activities since at least 2014, when a Western-backed coup took place in the country.

Sowers of Unrest

When studying the Ukrainian plan from 2017, the first thing that catches the eye is the variety of operations aimed at creating a split in Russian society.

Operation ‘Zaslon’ describes a scheme to influence the family members of Donbass soldiers and militiamen, as well as Russian army personnel. The operation’s main goals include blocking military units and encouraging desertion and resignations in the militaries of ‘Eastern,’ the document’s code word for Russia and the Donbass republics.

In the event of an outbreak of hostilities, a transition to Operation ‘Bolotnaya Square’ was planned. This consists of cultivating distrust of Russia’s military and political leadership among the country’s population, as well as fomenting dissent “against the aggressive policy of the ‘Eastern’ president and his entourage,” in order to incite mass protests.

Ukraine’s actual actions confirm the authenticity of these plans. Even after Crimea’s reunification with Russia, Russian citizens could be found who sided with Kiev.

Exposed: The vast pro-Ukrainian 'bot army' designed to influence Western policy makers
Exposed: The vast pro-Ukrainian 'bot army' designed to influence Western policy makers
It is noteworthy that in 2018, a fake news story claiming that 300 people had died in a fire at Kemerovo’s Winter Cherry shopping center originated in Ukraine. No less revealing is the story of a Ukrainian Special Forces employee who called on Russians to protest against “pension genocide,” but forgot to change his Ukrainian IP address.

Goal: Undermine Morale

The number of Ukrainian sympathizers in Russia is unlikely to have increased this year. Sociological studies indicate that citizens’ support for the Russian government has only been growing. By the beginning of the summer, 72 percent of Russians supported the military campaign, while Russian President Vladimir Putin’s popularity rating had risen, settling at 82 percent.

But if Ukraine has failed in killing support for the offensive, it doesn’t mean it hasn’t tried. For example, the command of Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces has been implementing the ‘Smuta’ project since January of 2022. The documentation contains a detailed report on materials published in the Russian media and social networks aimed at destabilizing the country, provoking discontent among its population, and discrediting the authorities.

After the outbreak of hostilities, Operation ‘Steppe Wind’ was activated. As stated in the SSO documents, its task is to demoralize the enemy and create tension between the Russian military and DPR and LPR fighters. According to Oleg Matveichev, a professor at the Higher School of Economics, “in fact, there are about 80,000 accounts maintained by Ukrainian students [on the Russian-language internet], but they pretend to be locals: ‘ordinary residents’ of Penza, Kurgan, Chita, and Khabarovsk.”

'Peacemaker' of death: This Ukrainian website threatens hundreds of thousands with extrajudicial killings — some are Americans
'Peacemaker' of death: This Ukrainian website threatens hundreds of thousands with extrajudicial killings — some are Americans
Relatives of Russian servicemen have been terrorized by telephone scammers who report the death of their loved ones in Ukraine or demand money for their “release from captivity.” As reported by ombudsman Tatiana Moskalkova, relatives of Russian soldiers have also received videos showing prisoners being abused. The Ukrainian special services have created several Telegram channels, where unverified data on Russian casualties and prisoners is published. The Ombudsman also said she has received more than 100 appeals concerning prisoners of war, of which about half have been confirmed.

‘Gentle Dew’ of Grads

Operation ‘Gentle Dew’, which is aimed at residents of territories not controlled by Ukraine, deserves special mention. Its mission is to “form pro-Ukrainian sentiment among the population of the occupied territories and encourage protest movements directed against the ‘Eastern’ and the occupation authorities.”

However, there has been no success in implementing this plan. The main reason for this lies in the difference between Kiev’s and the Donbass republics’ views on and approaches to the possible reintegration of the regions with Ukraine. In March 2021, President Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree approving a ‘Strategy for De-occupation and Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol.’ The document, which consists of 158 paragraphs, will give you an idea of how the authorities in Kiev intend to treat the residents of the regions that have left Ukraine.

The document proposes to exclude persons who “were part of or collaborated with the occupation administrations” from holding any position in government or civil service. This is a very wide range of people, ranging from members of the 2014 referendum commissions to teachers and doctors working in municipal schools and hospitals. ‘De-occupation’ also involves extending the statute of limitations on criminal cases that were conducted by Ukrainian police before the referendum on the return of Crimea to Russia, as well as pursuing criminal cases within the competence of the Security Service of Ukraine.

Translated from legal to layman’s language, this means purposeful persecution of all officials who worked in Crimea in February 2014, as well as participants in mass rallies supporting the reunification of Crimea with Russia, volunteers who helped DPR and LPR residents during the civil war, and so on.

While opening opportunities for the residents of Crimea and Donbass to study at Ukrainian universities, Kiev refuses to recognize any educational documents obtained on the peninsula. The question of whether these conditions will make residents of Crimea and Donbass want to return to Ukraine is purely rhetorical.

Can the UN's mission to Europe's largest nuclear power plant prevent a Chernobyl-style catastrophe?
Can the UN's mission to Europe's largest nuclear power plant prevent a Chernobyl-style catastrophe?
While it is unknown whether the SSO intends to continue implementing its plan to foster pro-Ukrainian sentiment among the residents of Crimea and Donbass, we do know for sure that the Ukrainian side sharply increased its attacks on cities in these regions after the start of Russia’s Special Military Operation. So far, this ‘Gentle Dew’ has only fallen on the region in the form of MLRS Grad shells and Tochka U missiles.

On the Hills of Manchuria

Ukraine’s SSO has also carried out several special operations in the foreign policy field. One of them is operation ‘Caspian’, whose purpose is to sow and deepen disagreements between the Russian Federation and certain ‘Fawn,’ which are presumably countries in the Caspian region. The operation is to be considered successful if it leads to “actions indicating the refusal of ‘Fawn’ from interacting with ‘Eastern’.”

In general, it is difficult to assess where the line lies between Ukraine’s efforts to disrupt Russia’s relations with its partners and the natural difficulties that arise in the dialogue between any countries. Nevertheless, it is worth noting that during the riots that took place in Kazakhstan in January this year, at least some of the protesters’ actions were coordinated with Ukraine, where Kazakh oppositionists found refuge.

Operation ‘Manchurian Hills’ aims to worsen Russia’s diplomatic relations with the countries of the Far East. This Ukrainian special services’ plan has been designed to persuade Moscow that its eastern neighbors are potential threats, thereby provoking Russia to increase its military presence in the region.

If we analyze the content of the ‘Strategy of Ukraine’s Foreign Policy Activity’ adopted in July 2021, we can see not the defensive, but the aggressively offensive nature of Kiev’s foreign policy actions. For example, to offer experience “acquired over years of countering Russian aggression” to NATO countries and the Baltic-Black Sea region. Or to assist in fighting Russian “disinformation” in neighboring countries, to support the “people of Belarus,” to “democratize” Russia itself, and to strengthen “pressure on and deterrence of the Russian Federation on the basis of a broad international coalition.” This, by the way, is also included in SSO plans called ‘The Voice of Reason’.

From Brezhnev to Khrushchev: Ukraine had a huge influence on the Soviet Union, something Kiev now prefers to downplay
From Brezhnev to Khrushchev: Ukraine had a huge influence on the Soviet Union, something Kiev now prefers to downplay
Even in bilateral relations, where Ukraine should seemingly focus on developing trade, industrial cooperation, and cultural exchanges, the Foreign Ministry is tasked with “ensuring support from African and Middle Eastern states in countering the aggression of the Russian Federation.”

Epilogue

Since the outbreak of hostilities, Ukraine has been trying to present Russia’s actions to the ‘international community’ as an attack by a great power on a small state that is unable to defeat the huge Russian army because it has never had aggressive intentions either against the Russian Federation or any other country. This statement is refuted by ‘Ukraine’s Military Security Strategy’, which states in black and white, for example, that KI’ve may enter into a war with the Russian Federation if Russia tries to “keep the Republic of Belarus in its sphere of political influence.”

The goal of Ukraine’s accession to NATO is also clearly outlined. Of course, as a sovereign state, Ukraine has the right to join any international organization. But the issue is that Kiev sees the goal of NATO membership as the US-led bloc’s participation in a war against Russia. This has been confirmed by an adviser to the president of Ukraine, Alexey Arestovich, who, in explaining the purpose of the DEFENDER Europe 2021 exercises, stated that “in the waters from the Baltic to the Black Sea, we are working out – let’s not beat around the bush – how to carry out an armed conflict with Russia, a war with Russia.”

Although, back in 2017, the SSO created a ‘Voice of Reason’ plan, which included a task to ensure that “statements confirming readiness to negotiate a peaceful settlement of the situation” appeared in the West. In fact, the West never rejected this idea. After the outbreak of hostilities, it was Kiev that refused peace talks, preferring to wage war with Russia. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky repeated this policy line in Paris, stressing that the conditions for negotiating with Russia hadn’t yet “matured,” as he wanted to take a “stronger position.”

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