I have not so far commented on this disastrously thought out last hurrah (typical of MI6 constipated-brain-vomit), built on all remaining, street-scraped recruits and reserve forces and the last, likely now mostly eliminated, working examples of armoured weaponry, at Zelensky’s disposal.
It was always going to be a mad scheme (again an MI6 specialty), doomed to failure. Think in terms of a flea-bite on an elephant (or bear). Scheduled to ruffle feathers, but nothing more.
I don’t have sufficient time, or the information (although I have read most of what there is), nor in fact the interest, to form a detailed analysis of the situation, but I find I am in general agreement with Professor Mirzayan (he is in fact an Associate Professor) as stated in the article below. He, in turn, is in general agreement with the latest expressed views of Dmitry Medvedev, which are also within the long-term goals of the Russian Special Military Operation, as laid down by President Putin several years ago now. So, nothing has been changed as a result of Zelensky’s final splutterings and there is, in fact, no cause for alarm or changes of plan. Which is exactly how Russia is treating this situation. Calmly and without undue haste.
But treating it, they are. As will soon become evident. …and then the game will be over. Apart from the cleaning up, the righting of wrongs, and the final disposals. All of which, Russia will oversee.
Because I have no desire to make a detailed statement of my own, I have taken the liberty of including a full, Yandex translated version of the VZGLYAD, Mirzayan text here, below – with appropriate links, purely as an aid to understanding and for the convenience of non-Russian readers.
AUGUST 8, 2024, 13: 03•OPINION
The attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region will reduce Ukraine
How to respond to the attack on the Kursk region? Minimize the land border of Ukraine. Take control of historical Russian territories with significant economic and industrial potential.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
“From now on, the Free Trade Zone should acquire an openly extraterritorial character. This is no longer just an operation to reclaim our official territories and punish the Nazis. It is possible and necessary to go to the lands of the still existing Ukraine. To Odessa, to Kharkov, to Dnepropetrovsk, to Nikolaev. To Kiev and beyond. There should be no restrictions in the sense of some recognized borders of the Ukrainian Reich. And now it is possible and necessary to talk about this openly, without embarrassment and diplomatic curtsies. The Bandera terrorist operation should remove any taboos from this topic.”
This was the reaction of the Deputy head of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev. His words should not have intimidated anyone, hinted at something or pushed someone to something. No, this is a complete and absolute statement of fact. Reflection of the new realities of the SVO.
The purpose of the special military operation was initially to ensure Russia’s security from a radical, hostile Ukraine. The same goal still exists today, but the methods used to achieve it may be completely different.
Initially, in the time of Istanbul, the method was considered regime change in Kiev. The removal of the most prominent and radical Russophobes from power, its denazification and the victory of the election results of those forces that are ready to live in peace or at least in cooperation with Moscow.
Yes, we have already had the experience of Minsk, where we agreed on something, and then we were deceived. However, Moscow still tried to implement all possible peaceful methods of solving the problem before moving on to non-peaceful ones. As a result, Istanbul failed. And then the method was the final liberation of critical territories for Russia in order to reduce the ability of the Kiev regime to pose any threat to Moscow. As a result, Ukraine was deprived of a significant part of the territories (which had access to the sea), and Russia acquired land access to the Crimea.
Events in the Kursk region have shown that the Kiev regime, even in its current stripped-down form, poses a threat to Russia. That even if he does not have enough reserves, he throws them into the attack for a strategically meaningless, but important from the point of view of PR and satisfying the Russophobic desires (both of the Ukrainian leadership and the Western one) operation in the Kursk region.
Russia’s hundreds-kilometer border with Ukraine will be under constant threat of invasion – and not necessarily by the Ukrainian army. The intruders can be called something like the ” Legion of Free Russia “(recognized in the Russian Federation as a terrorist organization), which Kiev gave only shelter and in general, they say, is not responsible for their actions. Moreover, if you look at the map, the Kharkiv region cuts into the Russian territory in a wedge-which means that it is an ideal springboard for sabotage.
That is why Medvedev is right – you can go to Odessa, to Kharkiv, to Dnepropetrovsk, to Nikolaev. That is, simply put, to cut off Ukraine from the sea, thereby depriving it of a significant part of its industrial potential. Minimize the land border due to the fact that most of the state border with the Kiev regime will run along the Dnieper (or it will be a land section, conditionally, Vinnytsia – Zhytomyr, which is several times smaller than the current border). Take control of historical Russian territories with significant economic and industrial potential. Well, in general, to skukozhit Ukraine to the borders of the current western and a piece of the central part of this country.
The attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Kursk region gives Russia all the international grounds for such a territorial solution to the Ukrainian issue, although it will require much greater efforts.
Yes, a number of experts will be unhappy. They will say that this is not enough. They will say that we need to go further, all the way to Lviv. However, they will be told that, first of all, the Bandera hotbed should not be included in its composition, but, on the contrary, should be fenced off from it. Moscow now will not be able to engage in systematic digging out of Bandera’s heresy there. The Soviet Union with its ideology could not even do that, and Russia now needs to make huge efforts to integrate the already liberated territories even without Bandera.
In addition, Western Ukraine itself will not survive as an independent state. It will break up, part of it will be part of Poland – and thus the division of Ukraine will be collective. This means that it will be much easier for the West to understand and accept it.
Nothing more to say. Just watch it all develop.
As often happens, I forgot something. I have just one last afterword to add: ‘skukozhit’ (you will find it untranslated in the text, where it is used as a verb applied to ‘Ukraine’), or ‘скукожиться’, is a Cyrillic word of apparently broad and indeterminate meaning. It is something to do with a ‘wrinkling up’ or ‘shrivelling’. Equally it could mean a depriving of all life-force. The best I can do is to use this referral: https://www.lingvolive.com/ru-ru/translate/ru-en/скукожиться
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