Neither the beginning of the general mobilization nor the official start of the war, which the Kremlin still calls a “special operation”, was announced.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin during the May 9 parade stated that the Russian occupiers “are fighting for their people in the Donbass.” “These days you are fighting for our people in Donbas, for the security of our homeland – Russia, as the ancient Russian princes, Rumyantsev, Potemkin and Suvorov, Sidor Kovpak and General Vatutin once fought,” Putin said.
It should be noted that neither the beginning of the war against Ukraine nor the beginning of mobilization was announced by the President of the Russian Federation.
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Putin also mentioned Russia's “security guarantees”. It still seems to him that the West wanted to attack the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, so Russia gave a “preliminary rebuff”: “NATO countries did not want to hear us, they had completely different plans, were preparing an attack on Crimea, Donbas.”
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This war is the end of Russia. There was nothing left in it but pathetic nightingale bravado, Dugin's rage, Gundyaev's blasphemy, and the tacit consent of millions of “ordinary Russians,” as endless as Siberia. But how did it happen that dreaming of the revival of the USSR, the potential aggressor did not notice a new force next to him?
Why Ukraine has become the embodiment of the virtues attributed to Russia, and Russia – the embodiment of all the most cavernous modern man? Read the details in Alexander Shcherba's article Why Russia is losing the war?
