"Remchukov reduces Russia's territorial ambitions: “The main
goal of Russian troops... is to reach the administrative borders
of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions... Putin increasingly uses
the following vocabulary: liberation of the Donetsk, Luhansk
regions, Novorossiya... The main thing [in the Kherson and
Zaporizhzhia regions] is the ground, overland, connection with
Crimea.”
This bit comes straight out of Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics, including the Novorossiya bit. N change here. Donetsk isn't going to be "liberated" and it hasn't been for almost 2 1/2 years. If it hasn't happened by now, it isn't going to happen. Same case for the entirety of Zaporhizhzhia and Kherson Oblasts west of the Dnipro - that's effectively been a static front for that time, minus retreats in Kherson Oblast. Surrendering those oblasts would leave Ukraine as pretty much of a "rump state" as was Putin's original intent. Incidentally, Russia is still a member of the Confederation of Independent States - CIS: https://new.cisstat.org/web/eng - as is Ukraine, and both have been since 1991 - where Ukraine includes Crimea and the oblasts occupied or sought by Putin.
3. The recognition of the Ukrainian nation: “Today, Russia
recognizes that a significant number of Ukrainians choose the
current government in the country, consider themselves
Ukrainians, do not want to see any future together with
Russia. In this way, the Russian leadership recognizes the state
of Ukraine. When the narrative is spread in the West that
Moscow wants to destroy Ukraine as a state, this is an obvious
discrepancy with today's realities.”
That last sentence is a bad joke, Putin wants to recolonize Eastern Ukraine and Crimea, just like Catherine I did in 1783, and they want them for the mineral resources - oil, gas, coal, and lithium, and offshore oil and gas in the Black Sea off of the coast of Crimea. This has nothing to do with the "liberation of Russian-speaking peoples", it has to do with the "liberation" of their mineral wealth. And the Belovezha Accords and Alma Ata Protocols already recognize the entirety of Ukraine at its 1991 borders as sovereign and independent: https://www.prlib.ru/en/history/619792 - and Putin full well knows this, since he has a copy of those documents. His statements and those of his sock puppets are simply disingenuous, betting on ignorance... The US government seems to be rather long on that about now.
"Remchukov reduces Russia's territorial ambitions: “The main
goal of Russian troops... is to reach the administrative borders
of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions... Putin increasingly uses
the following vocabulary: liberation of the Donetsk, Luhansk
regions, Novorossiya... The main thing [in the Kherson and
Zaporizhzhia regions] is the ground, overland, connection with
Crimea.”
This bit comes straight out of Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics, including the Novorossiya bit. N change here. Donetsk isn't going to be "liberated" and it hasn't been for almost 2 1/2 years. If it hasn't happened by now, it isn't going to happen. Same case for the entirety of Zaporhizhzhia and Kherson Oblasts west of the Dnipro - that's effectively been a static front for that time, minus retreats in Kherson Oblast. Surrendering those oblasts would leave Ukraine as pretty much of a "rump state" as was Putin's original intent. Incidentally, Russia is still a member of the Confederation of Independent States - CIS: https://new.cisstat.org/web/eng - as is Ukraine, and both have been since 1991 - where Ukraine includes Crimea and the oblasts occupied or sought by Putin.
3. The recognition of the Ukrainian nation: “Today, Russia
recognizes that a significant number of Ukrainians choose the
current government in the country, consider themselves
Ukrainians, do not want to see any future together with
Russia. In this way, the Russian leadership recognizes the state
of Ukraine. When the narrative is spread in the West that
Moscow wants to destroy Ukraine as a state, this is an obvious
discrepancy with today's realities.”
That last sentence is a bad joke, Putin wants to recolonize Eastern Ukraine and Crimea, just like Catherine I did in 1783, and they want them for the mineral resources - oil, gas, coal, and lithium, and offshore oil and gas in the Black Sea off of the coast of Crimea. This has nothing to do with the "liberation of Russian-speaking peoples", it has to do with the "liberation" of their mineral wealth. And the Belovezha Accords and Alma Ata Protocols already recognize the entirety of Ukraine at its 1991 borders as sovereign and independent: https://www.prlib.ru/en/history/619792 - and Putin full well knows this, since he has a copy of those documents. His statements and those of his sock puppets are simply disingenuous, betting on ignorance... The US government seems to be rather long on that about now.