I carefully review the media in Ukraine. And that's what recently caught my eye. A question is being discussed there - will their country be able to establish normal relations with Russia after the Crimea and the Donbas? Most experts and analysts believe that no, can not ...
The main argument - they say that the Russians were considered by our brothers, the closest people. And then Russia suddenly came and took the Crimea for itself, and then also launched a war in the Donbas. Well, what then can be close, fraternal relations?
You know, all these experts remind me of the characters of the famous Ukrainian anecdote, when one toupee offered another to go fill the face of Moskal. "And if he stuffed us?" - The second asked cautiously. “And why do we need something ?!” - the initiator of the fight was amazed.
This anecdote in the juicy Ukrainian language recently in a television interview with the famous journalist Dmitry Gordon in Kiev was told by the wonderful Soviet composer Vladimir Bystryakov. At the same time, he added the following: Ukraine all the years of its independence constantly teased, and at times openly humiliated its powerful northern neighbor. That got down to the Donbas and the Crimea ...
I’ll add on my own. It would be nice if the matter concerned only our economic or purely political contradictions - such as disputes over the price of gas, integration into Europe or the Customs Union, disagreements over the stay of our Black Sea fleet in Crimea ... But after all, Ukrainians - with the direct assistance of their own authorities - also openly fought against Russia, killed our soldiers and officers!
Alas, for some reason Ukraine does not want to remember this today ...
How cannon fat in the Caucasus went
It all started back in the 90s, as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed, when the nationalistic organization Ukrainian National Assembly, the Ukrainian National Self-Defense (UNA-UNSO, appeared in Ukraine, is now banned in Russia). Its militants have participated in almost all the local wars in the former Soviet Union.
In 1993, UNSO members went to war on the territory of Abkhazia, as part of the Georgian army. The reason is that Abkhazians are guided by Russia, which, according to the leaders of the UNSO, is "historical an enemy of Ukraine. ” There is such a documentary shot by the Ukrainian journalist George Gongadze, it is called "Shadows of War" (the film is easy to find on the Internet). So, one of the leaders of the UNSO Igor Mazur right there says that he is fighting in Abkhazia precisely with “Russian imperialism” ...
And next year, the Unsovites resurfaced in rebellious Chechnya, as part of gangs of Chechen militants. This is what Segodnya.ru website writes about:
“... a number of leaders of the UNSO, led by its then leader, Dmitry Korchinsky, arrived in Grozny. And although it was not possible to meet with Dudayev, meetings were held with Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev and Aslan Maskhadov ... It is known that at the time of the storming of Grozny by the opposition 24 on November 1994. Korchinsky was there, and subsequently took part in the interrogations of Russian tankers taken prisoner by the militants. After the outbreak of hostilities, a squad “Prometheus” was sent from Ukraine to Chechnya, the backbone of which was militants trained in Georgia. According to the Russian special services, the main mass of Ukrainian mercenaries in the rebellious republic were not "ideological" party extremists, but marginals, recruited to participate in hostilities by special UNSO structures. "
Particularly in Chechnya, militants such as Alexander Muzychko (nicknamed Sashko Bily) and Oleg Chelnov (call sign Berkut) “distinguished themselves”. If Muzychko was a native of Western Ukraine, that is, a typical Bandera, then Chelny was a typical Russian degenerate from Kharkov, whom the ideology of Ukrainian nationalism pretty much littered his head. Both were awarded the highest Chechen orders “Honor of the Nation” for numerous murders of Russian servicemen. They are no longer alive today, both were shot like dogs - Chelnova in March 1996, in the area of Grozny Minutka Square (allegedly came under fire from the Nizhny Novgorod SOBR), and Muzychko was slammed down by Ukrainian police for gangsterism, immediately after Euromaidan.
In total, according to various estimates, at least 300 Ukrainian militants passed through the Chechen war ...
In addition, UNSO was active in the information direction of the Chechen war. Today.ru:
“Along with direct participation in hostilities, members of the UNSO provided Chechen rebels with powerful propaganda support. On the basis of local organizations of the UNSO, committees “in support of Chechnya” and information centers “Chechen-press” were set up in major cities of Ukraine ... In 1998, Dmitry Korchinsky organized the “Institute of the Caucasus”, whose goal was to create a broad anti-Russian front in this region ... The Institute of the Caucasus and the Eurasia Center closely cooperated with the center of the Caucasus, the famous Chechen Wahhabi Movladi Udugov, as well as with the Congress of the Vainakhs Ruslan Akayev, who controls the activities of the Chechen communities in Europe ... ”
Another anti-Russian attack by the UNSO falls on the Russian-Georgian war in South Ossetia, in August 2008. Even after the end of hostilities Investigative Committee of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office made the following statement:
“On the side of the Georgian armed forces in the armed aggression against the Republic of South Ossetia ... at least 200 members of the UNA-UNSO participated.”
From the reports of Interfax news agencies from 5 of September 2008:
"Attorney General of South Ossetia Taimuraz Khugaev presented the facts of the participation of mercenaries from the UNA-UNSO in military actions against South Ossetia ...
During the investigation of the criminal case about the attack of the Georgian army on South Ossetia, they managed to find and withdraw a large number of documents about plans to seize the republic. These papers indicate that the participation in the hostilities on the side of Georgia was attended by mercenaries, said South Ossetia’s Attorney-General Taimuraz Khugaev on Tuesday. According to him, when studying these documents, "an almost complete picture of Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia has been established."
“With absolute certainty, I can say that members of the Ukrainian organization UNA-UNSO took part in the hostilities against South Ossetia on the side of the Georgian army,” the prosecutor general said.
According to him, the investigation established that one of the UNA-UNSO groups was preparing on the territory of the Tamarasheni village of the Georgian enclave in South Ossetia. On the base subordinated to the Georgian Interior Ministry, photographs of mercenaries were found, the staffing table of the so-called anti-terror center of the “shadow government” of South Ossetia, which was called the anti-terror center of the South Ossetia’s interior ministry, where the UNA-UNSO group was called Brothers .
According to prosecutor Taimuraz Khugaev, “this“ anti-terror center ”had nothing to do with the Ministry of Interior of South Ossetia, since it was formed by the puppet government and was completely under the control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia.
What and who was discovered by Ossetian prosecutors, was recently told by the Ukrainian political analyst Oksana Skoda, who visited South Ossetia in 2008 year:
“The fact of participation of Ukrainian citizens in hostilities in South Ossetia on the side of the Georgian aggressors has been irrefutably proven by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of South Ossetia. That in tankswho shot Tskhinvali were Ukrainian mercenaries, it became known even before the end of the war. Then the secretary of the Security Council of the RSO Anatoly Barankevich said that among the killed enemy soldiers, the bodies of at least three Ukrainian mercenaries were found. One of them is Gennady Viktorovich Borisenko, born in 1966, a native of Lviv, the names of the other two are Burdenko and Prokopenko. As for the captive Igor Petrenko, a native of Dnepropetrovsk region, I saw him personally: before he was sent to Vladikavkaz, he was held in the building of school No. 6. During interrogations, he said that the Georgian troops included about 300 mercenaries from Ukraine, mostly nationalists. Indeed, traces of the UNA-UNSO “stay” were found in the former Georgian enclave of Kkheti-Tamarasheni (Dmitry Sanakoev’s “patrimony”).
Portraits of Roman Shukhevych, printouts of the program of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, textbooks, symbols. The staffing table of the Georgian Anti-Terror Center, where five immigrants from Ukraine - Shapoval, Kucherenko, Shevchenko, Matviyuk and Zhovtokon, are separated into a separate subdivision “Brothers”, an order to assign the UAZ to the Ukrainian Kucherenko, etc. ”.
“Sprinkle the earth with evil blood” (from the work of “humanist” Taras Shevchenko)
It may be objected that all this was a private initiative of the nationalists, to whom the Ukrainian state allegedly had nothing to do. But it really wasn't like that ...
I will begin with the fact that Ukrainian nationalism crawled into power at all not after Euromaidan, but literally immediately after the formation of an independent Ukrainian state. Because at the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine, geopolitical theories of the founding fathers of Ukrainian nationalism were immediately in demand. The expert on this issue, researcher Vladislav Gulevich writes about this:
“... The ideologists of Ukrainian nationalism developed in vain an innumerable variety of theories and methods of dividing Russia along national“ seams ”, and expanding the borders of the Ukrainian national state to the east.
There was no unity on the issue of the expansion of Ukraine among these ideologues. Each of them wrote what his imagination pushed him to. The nationalist poet Oles Babiy (1897 — 1975) in 1929 in the “March of Ukrainian Nationalists” (adopted as the hymn of the OUN - the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) in the last verse inserted the lines “The Catholic Ukrainian Power, free and powerful, from Sanaa to the Caucasus ".
Mikhail Kolodzinsky, founder of the military doctrine of Ukrainian nationalism, referent of the OUN regional executive secretary (1902 — 1939) went further, and wrote in the Ukrainian Military Doctrine: “We, building the Ukrainian state, must move the border of Europe to Altai and Dzungaria. Europe is just missing this space. Ukraine is called to connect this space with Europe politically, economically and culturally, and the phrase “on the verge of two worlds” will have a real meaning ... As Caesar, gaining Gaul, opened the whole of Europe for Roman culture and civilization, so our nationalist revolutionary armies should open for Western European culture, a space extending to the south and south-east of Ukraine. ”
And further: “It was a magnificent task of our life, as a people, as a race - to get a steppe over the Black and Caspian Sea and to build here, on the verge of two continents, the center of a new world civilization. When the policy of Ukrainian nationalism seeks to establish the borders of Ukraine on the Volga and extend its influence to Central Asia, the military doctrine of Ukrainian nationalism cannot be limited to focusing only on the ethnographic Ukrainian lands. A person who refuses this struggle and calls for pacifism is a rotten growth on a healthy body. The revolutionary struggle is not only the arming of the masses, but also the beginning of the creation of military force, the beginning of the organization of the Ukrainian army for the tasks that await us in Eastern Europe. ”
The propagandist of the OUN Panteleimon Koval (present name Panteleimon Sak) in 1942 in the brochure “Ukraine, what it was, what it is and what it will be” dreamed that it would cover “land from the Volga to the mountains of the Caucasus and the Black Sea to the source of the Dnieper, occupying space in 1 million square meters. km. "
Yuri Lipa (1900 — 1944), who is now called the founder of the geopolitics of Ukrainian nationalism, argued that the fate of Ukraine is to dominate in the area from the Balkans to the Urals.
When you read about these plans, you wonder how their authors have been able to live so long in the company of normal people — after all, what they have stated is wild and divorced from reality. But it is these clinical characters that are doing intellectual weather in Ukraine now. In a stupid time, the need for stupid people is sharply increasing.
Lipu is especially often remembered. Probably, because of the frank name of one of his opus - “The Section of Russia” (“Rose of Russia”), where particular attention is paid to many Russian regions, including the Caucasus ...
It is symptomatic that Lipa's book was reprinted in New York in 1954, and the author's preface to it is dated 22 June 1941. Apparently, the nationalist Y. Lipu was so impressed by the attack of the Third Reich on the USSR that he immediately sat down for the preface to his brochure . In it, he outlined ideas very similar to the ideas of the Nazis in relation to Russia.
In works of this type it is difficult to understand where common sense ends and fantasies begin. Lipa paid a lot of attention to racial issues. In his presentation in the European part of Russia there are only two centers of the tall population - a small center near the borders with the Baltic States, and a much larger “Ukrainian-Caucasian center” in the south.
The expansion of Ukraine at Y.Lipy "from thousands of years" was aimed at getting the Black Sea shores. Where he found Ukraine thousands of years ago remains a mystery. But this is not the case, but how Y. Lipa saw the process of separation of Ukraine and Russia through the activization of Ukraine’s nationalist policies in the south, including the Caucasus.
An example of a wise Caucasian policy for Y. Lipa is English General Forestis Walker. In 1919, Mr. Walker outlined three formats for solving the Caucasian issue:
1) the creation of independent, unrelated Transcaucasian republics;
2) federation on the rights of federations to the North Caucasus, which must also be separated from Russia;
3) autonomy of these republics within Russia (the most negative scenario for London).
“The Caucasus is a gateway to very important territories. Not to mention the oil-rich Iraq, we are talking about Iran, an important platform from the Caspian Sea to the Caucasus to free sea routes. For the young energetic peoples of the Black Sea basin, first of all, for Ukrainians with Caucasians, the routes through Iran are the only ways to a great future. The Black Sea is an inland lake for the Black Sea peoples, ”writes Y. Lipa.
And calls to go to the Persian Gulf: "The road through the Caucasus and northern Iran to the waves of the Persian Gulf is very difficult. Such a tradition is to some extent common in the Caucasus, in Central Asia, and even in the folklore of the peoples of the Black Sea basin, the tradition of the trips of Alexander the Great may be an analogy for the movement to the Persian Gulf. But the main content of expansion through the “Iranian bridge” can be only one thing: the search for a natural way out for the productive forces of Ukraine, the Caucasus and other Black Sea peoples. ”
In other words, the inflamed imagination of Yuri Lipa called on Caucasians to participate in the expansion of nationalist Ukraine in the direction of the Persian Gulf, armed with the ideology of Russophobia. Without taking into account the ratio of the capabilities and abilities of such Ukraine and the dreams of Y. Lipa himself with geopolitical realities ... ”.
And although there is still no serious opportunity for Russia to spoil Russia in the Caucasus from an insignificant from a military-economic point of view, these attempts were made more than once according to the precepts of the founding fathers of ukronacism.
For example, let us pay attention to when exactly the UNSO went to war in Abkhazia. This is the spring of 1993 of the year. But at the same time, “by coincidence,” the Ukrainian-Georgian relations at the highest level suddenly became more active. 9 April 1993, the Georgian President, Eduard Shevardnadze, flew to Kiev, where he met with his Ukrainian counterpart Leonid Kravchuk. And before that, Shevardnadze gave a great radio interview where he praised Ukraine in every possible way and spoke of the growing role of this country in Europe.
During that summit, Kravchuk announced that he showed great interest in resolving the Abkhaz conflict and wanted to end it as soon as possible. The historian Aslan Avidzba in his book “Problems of the Military-Political History of the Patriotic War in Abkhazia” writes that all this Georgian-Ukrainian “fraternization” took place against the backdrop of another conflict with Russia over the division of the Black Sea Fleet:
“In Kiev, an open letter was distributed to the President of Ukraine L. Kravchuk signed by deputies of the Verkhovna Rada urging to unilaterally denounce the Yalta Agreement of 3 of August 1992 of the year and build their own naval forces. At the 4-th Congress of the Union of Officers of Ukraine 10 on April 1993, the Minister of Defense of this country K.Morozov said: “We must quickly divide the warships of the Black Sea Fleet and withdraw the Russian part from the Ukrainian ports and bases and in no case agree to rent by Russia Ukrainian territory. And if the Russian side demands just such a price for the division of the Black Sea Fleet, the question of withdrawing the entire Black Sea Fleet from Ukraine will be raised. ”
In general, the Ukrainian-Georgian rapprochement on Abkhazia from Kiev clearly pursued the goal of pressure on Russia with the aim of dividing the Black Sea Fleet under the terms of Kiev. But not only. As a person told me, who worked for several years in the presidential administration of Ukraine, Kravchuk in 1993 seriously considered the option of introducing Ukrainian peacekeepers into the zone of the Abkhaz conflict, precisely in order to press Russia in the Caucasian direction. For this, the “voluntary” detachment UNA-UNSO was sent, so to speak, for “reconnaissance in force”.
Nothing happened with Kravchuk then - the Georgian army was defeated in a matter of months, and the UNSO had to quickly get out of the combat zone, losing at least 10 people killed. However, cooperation on an anti-Russian basis with Georgia Kiev was laid down - it continues today ...
Plowers and power reshaly
And now let's call the patrons of the UNSO in the highest authorities of the Ukrainian government.
The organization itself was created with the direct assistance of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate (UOC-KP), a schismatic structure that separated after the collapse of the USSR from the Russian Orthodox Church in order to create a “national Ukrainian church independent of the Muscovites”. The “Patriarch” of this “church”, pop-rastiga Filaret (Denisenko) established a special military structure during his diocese, the so-called “Rite of Saint Hilarion”, which became the official cover of the UNSO, the source of its funding. Meanwhile, Filaret himself was always entrusted to the highest circles of the Kiev authorities, where important decisions were made, including on Ukrainian politics in the Caucasus.
Another patron of the nationalists was SBU General Alexander Skipalsky, who oversaw military intelligence in Ukraine — it was along this intelligence line that UNSO was heading to Chechnya. It was General Skipalsky who, in a conversation with journalists of the Top Secret newspaper, in the 1997 called the famous Chechen terrorist Salman Raduyev his personal friend in XNUMX. According to some reports, Skipalsky, through the officers and Chechens, not only led espionage against Russia, but also engaged in the transportation of drugs from the Caucasus to Europe.
But Skipalsky was not so alone there. My source in Kiev said that employees of the Council of National Security and Defense of Ukraine (NSDC), who were wearing shoulder straps, worked directly with Dmitry Korchinsky - and worked until the 2009 of the year ...
Also, my source called me the name of the long-term mayor of Odessa, Eduard Gurwitz, who was friends with the UNSO leader Korchinsky and actively helped to wage an anti-Russian information war in favor of the Chechens. This is confirmed by a wide variety of media. So, according to journalist Vladimir Druzhinin:
“In 1996, in Odessa, there were five concerts of Chechen musician Imam Alimsultanov, a supporter of the gene. Dudayev. The then head of Odessa Edward Gurvits (in 1997, he was invited to the "inauguration" of the leader of the terrorists Aslan Maskhadov helped the Chechen fighter in this). But the terrorists are like spiders in a bank. I. Alimsultanov was killed in Odessa as a result of internal Chechen squabbles.
Under E. Gurwitz, a cooperation agreement was signed between Odessa and Dudaevskaya Ichkeria. For this purpose, a whole delegation of terrorists headed by Vaha Arsanov came to Odessa, and the Odessa press published anti-Russian interviews with Ichkerian extremists on the subject of the seizure by Shamil Basayev of the hospital and maternity hospital in Budennovsk in 1995. ”
But Hurwitz was friends with Korchinsky and Chechen gangsters not only on an “ideological basis”. As my Kiev source told me:
- The fact is that the cunning Jew Hurwitz, deeply immersed in crime and corruption, always wanted to have a pocket power structure - the presence of such a force always makes it possible for his "opponents", "allies" and "partners" to offer even with all their desire - they can not refuse. This “argument” in Hurwitz and became the UNA-UNSO. Their “friendship with Korchinskiy” was not interrupted, and after Hurwitz moved from the chair of the Odessa mayor to the position of deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, they were still together - the deputy and his assistant.
Hurwitz, by the way, always entered the party of power that currently rules in the country - so his position always reflected to one degree or another the power policy ...
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine did not hide its anti-Russian nature. As the Ukrainian journalist Maria Bazelyuk wrote with pride in the 90s:
“The absolute majority of Ukrainians in 1994 clearly supported Chechenia. 105 deputies of the Supreme Council of Ukraine appealed to the UN Security Council with a demand to consider the question of Russian aggression against Chechenia at an emergency session. The Supreme Council of Ukraine did not condemn itself as a shame as some of the “powerful worlds”, avoiding in its statement the vile definition of the war in the CRI as the “internal affairs of Russia”. On the initiative of the people's deputies of Ukraine, an inter-parliamentary committee for the protection of Chechnya was formed, which included, besides the Ukrainian, parliamentarians of Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Estonia and other countries. "
Supported by the Rada of Chechen gangsters not only parliamentary documents. In 1996, a certain Bakievich, who introduced himself as a Ukrainian reporter, said in an interview with Chechen militants on television that Ukraine, through the Verkhovna Rada, had allocated “humanitarian aid for the Russian people” to the freedom-loving Chechen people for 330 millions of Russian rubles (one can only guess if recall that a large number of ammunition for Dudayev gangs came just from Ukraine).
Also, the Verkhovna Rada approved the renaming of two streets in Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv - they, obviously in the peak of Russia, were named after General Dudayev. Rada’s deputy Mikhail Ratushny personally transported the widow of General Alla Dudayeva from the Caucasus to the Baltic States in 1996, while the SBU then pretended to pass through the Ukraine that she “did not notice anything” ...
But of course, the Ukrainian state took the most openly hostile anti-Russian position during the war in South Ossetia. And it concerns not only the militants of the UNA-UNSO. The Investigative Committee of Russia found that the personnel Ukrainian military specialists served the Georgian air defense systems, namely, Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile systems, which shot down Russian combat aircraft. From the official statement of the Investigative Committee (I quote from the website Today. Ru):
“So, Ukraine not only sold Georgia at a lower price for the Buk-М1 air defense system, but also sent a group of civilian specialists from the town of Balakley of the Kharkiv region who served these complexes, with the help of which the Georgians fired on Russian combat aircraft ... Officers of the Ukrainian Army Valery Kabanets, Dmitry Pilipchuk, Vladimir Ponomarenko, other specialists who were on the territory of Georgia from 5 to 13 in August 2008 of the year, that is, before, during and after the armed conflict with South Ossetia, they wrote their own explanatory notes about your stay in Georgia ... “.
All this was preceded by a long-term military-technical cooperation between Ukraine and Georgia. According to Oksana Skoda:
“It is not a secret for anyone that the military aggression of Georgia against the RSO was carefully planned and financed by the USA and the NATO countries. An ominous plan to destroy the Ossetians tried to implement for the sake of Georgia’s accession to NATO and fueling the war in the Caucasus. It would seem, what have the non-aligned Ukraine? Alas, in the face of the genocide of the Ossetian people, it is in the person of the unfortunate President Yushchenko.
An analysis of the military-technical cooperation between Kiev and Tbilisi shows: Georgia was armed and its army was trained against the only adversary — Russia. And this was done by President Yushchenko with a long-distance transatlantic optical sight. It was the Ukrainians who created the airspace monitoring system for Georgia’s air defense (it includes the command post in Tbilisi and 8 radar stations, as well as the Kolchuga complex consisting of three passive radar stations). By the time of the attack on Tskhinval, the system was mounted and fully adapted to the combat conditions, controlled by Ukrainian combat calculations.
Formally, the military-technical cooperation of Ukraine with Georgia started in 1998 by L. Kuchma and E. Shevardnadze. Before 2004, it was embodied in the missile cruiser “Tbilisi”, two sailing boats of the “Wall” type and 10 training and combat aircraft L-29 “Dolphin”. Kumovya Yushchenko and Saakashvili went much further: from 2006, Ukrainian supplies to Georgia included the full range of weapons: from T-72 tanks to the OCA-AKM and BUK-MXNUM anti-aircraft missile systems. By 1, Ukraine became the main supplier of military equipment and weapons to Georgia. Only in 2007 did the 2007 of the T-74 tank converted to NATO standards come into service with the Georgian military. During the presidency of Yushchenko, Georgia has been enriched with dozens of armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, self-propelled guns, airplanes and helicopters, anti-aircraft missile systems, tens of thousands of Kalashnikov assault rifles. And in May, 72 between Tbilisi and Kiev was contracted to supply more 2008 T-20 tanks "...
I remember then that the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and its General Staff "indignantly" tried to refute all these facts, and considered the statement of our Investigative Committee "as an attempt of the Russian side to discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine". And in the SBU, the curator of the UNA-UNSO, the statement of the Russian Federation was directly called "false." And this is despite the fact that the Russian law enforcement agencies were provided with weighty and convincing evidence!
However, today time has put everything in its place. Not so long ago, Ukrainian high-ranking liars "burned" the former president of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, who said last year:
“If it were not for the help of Ukraine, the Georgian state would not have survived ... The reason why we were saved, the main thing is Ukraine’s help ... Because in Ukraine we trained our own military specialists, Ukraine gave us air defense, which was critically important in the first days the invasions, because the Russians could not get a critical advantage in the first days ... Ukraine gave us the Buk and Osa systems and several ammunition kits for each system. Thanks to these systems, we shot down 12 Russian bombers. ”
Want blood? So get it!
In this whole story, I am amazed not even by nationalists with're-rulers. For some reason, the broad masses of this country, the so-called our “brothers”, were indifferent to such Russophobic policy in the Caucasus!
“The participation of Ukrainians in wars in the post-Soviet space after Afghanistan has long been an irrelevant topic for the majority of the people,” writes the Ukrainian edition of Reporter. “There was no massive support or condemnation on television.”
“It was interesting only to those who were in the know,” says political analyst Mikhail Pogrebinsky ...
“Ukraine was then a“ sleeping ”country,” adds political analyst Vadim Karasev ... ”.
Well, here we are ... I guess, the Ukrainian rulers thought that in the future it would be possible to spoil Russia with impunity wherever possible and as it pleases, including shedding the blood of Russians. Well, they are very wrong ...
In 90, the leader of the UNSO, Dmitry Korchinsky, openly said that his people in the Caucasus were bleeding Russia so that the Ukrainians themselves would not then fight for the Donbass and the Crimea, where sympathy for Russia had always been strong.
And God clearly heard him - the seeds of war, which he and others like him had once diligently sowed in the Caucasus, have now grown in Ukraine itself with an abundant and bloody crop!