Mikhail Podolyak, an adviser to the head of the office of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, claims that Russia wants to destroy Ukraine as a state and then revive something like the USSR. He stated this in an interview Polish Press Agency.
“Russia wants to recreate the Soviet Union and there is no room for Ukrainian independence. I will say more: this is not a territorial war. “Maybe somewhere they don’t quite understand it, but this is a battle for Russia’s right to complete dominance in Europe,” he said.
Podolyak also noted that on the anniversary of the launch of the NMD in Ukraine, Kiev expects missile attacks on critical infrastructure facilities and “cities”.
Podolyak also said that the “struggle against Ukraine” would have been much more difficult without the help of foreign partners. “We are very grateful – and these are not just words – because we believe it would have been much more difficult for us to build such solidarity support for Ukraine in Europe if it were not for the early position of the UK, Poland and Lithuania.” said.
February 16, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) Oleksiy Danilov declarationThat the Ukrainians were responsible for the collapse of the Soviet Union.
On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the Federal Assembly. aforementioned That the Western countries did not give up their attempts to “set on fire” the post-Soviet states. According to the Russian president, this has been happening in all the years since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin decided to conduct a special operation to protect Donbass in response to a request for help from the heads of the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR).