In addition to military strikes, Russia’s general Vladimir Putin (69) relies on another strategy: the moral decomposition of the Ukrainians. At a meeting of the National Security Council, which was shown on state television on Friday, the Kremlin chief called on the Ukrainian army to fight against the government in Kiev.
By René Garzke
Putin: “Take power into your own hands! It might be easier for us to come to terms with you than with this gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis who have settled in Kiev and have taken the entire Ukrainian people hostage.”
In addition, Russia spread rumors that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (44) is hiding in a bunker or has already left the city.
That is why Volodymyr Zelenskyj (44) showed up with other high-ranking politicians in the government district of Kiev on Friday evening. “We’re all here,” he said in a video he uploaded to Facebook. He wrote: “We are in Kiev. We defend Ukraine.”
The Kremlin has been claiming for years that “fascists” controlled from abroad staged a coup in Kiev in 2014 – and also used that as a pretext for the war. Putin is obviously hoping that the Ukrainians will eventually believe the claims.
What Russia has been hiding so far: How many deaths there have been in your own ranks since the beginning of the war. According to Ukraine, the invading Russian troops “lost” 2,800 soldiers.
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In another delusional speech earlier on Monday, Putin referred to Ukraine as a “US colony” and the Ukrainian government as a “puppet regime.” He also spoke, contrary to the facts, of a “genocide” happening in eastern Ukraine.
Putin called the soldiers he initially sent to the Donetsk and Luhansk regions “peacekeepers”. The whole world knows: HE attacked the Ukraine.