Ex-Ukrainian officer commands Russian offensive on Kupiansk, BBC reports

https://kyivindependent.com/ex-ukrainian-officer-commands-russian-offensive-on-kupiansk-bbc-reports/

Posted by Nethlem

4 comments

  1. expected. 

    there’s ‘many’ Ukrainians that have ‘switched’ over the years. of course, the regime brands those ‘traitors’, refusing to recognise the fundamental ‘flaws’ in a Ukrainian identity built on a Western-only/anti-Russian platform.

    let’s remind, this ‘attitude’ extends to residents (ordinary civilians) who were under the administration cities that Kiev considered as, being controlled by Russian-backed separatists, that is, long before the outbreak of the crisis.

    Western people need to realise that this ‘civil war’, itself fueled by the West, has been a disaster for Ukraine — that’s if they ever cared abt Ukraine in the first place.

  2. The current Mayor of Mariupol (as in the one who is actually there running it) was the acting Police Chief back in 2014. This started as a Civil War until the DPR/LRP activated their newly signed (3 days later in fact) defense pact with Russia back in February 2022. No matter how much Ukraine claims that the separatists where all just little green men that crossed the border from Russia. There where massive defections and desertions among the police and military to the LPR/DPR or to Russia back in 2014. Its how Ukraine lost its only Submarine. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reported back in 2014 that around 70 percent or higher of its personnel in Crimea alone defected. And there are still defections taking place. History does not begin in 2022.

  3. This would be a great PR win for Russia if Ukraine didn’t already have over a thousand russians fighting for them. But on the Eastern border of Ukraine historically loyalties have been divided. Especially before russia’s/the Ukrainian government’s response to euromaidan, which alienated a large portion of the Russian speaking Ukrainians, and caused a decent number of politicians and soldiers and cops to defect to Russia, as they knew they wouldn’t have been welcome following the crackdown/russian invasion. Which only got significantly exacerbated bz the 2022 invasion.

  4. Russia finally got the cores on eastern ukraine /s

    But honestly why would anyone be surprised? A large part of Ukraine was under pro Russian comtrol and a large part of the Ukranian establishment prior to 2014 had very strong ties to Moscow

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