Reconstructing the origins of the conflict is a lengthy Financial Times report. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was “completely surprised” by a phone call on February 24, 2022 informing him of Putin’s green light to invade Ukraine. And when one of the oligarchs asked him how he could have taken this path, Lavrov replied: Putin “has three advisers. Ivan the Terrible. Peter the Great. And Catherine the Great.”
The invasion ofUkraine it was decided only by Wladimir Putin and from a very narrow circle of his advisers, which did not include the managers of the Kremlinnor the foreign minister Lavrov. And what in the Russian president’s plan “should be a brilliant and relatively bloodless one flash war” with the cast of Kyiv Completed in a few days, it turned out to be “a swamp of historic proportions for Russia”. Reconstructing the origin of the conflict in Ukraine appears today in the Financial Times, which, in a report on the origins of the conflict, writes how the war arose from the decision of the Russian President and a few trusted men without involving the full leadership Fly.
“Around 1 a.m. on February 24, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov received a disturbing call – writes the British newspaper -. After months of preparing a troop of invasion of 100 thousand men at the borders with Ukraine, Wladimir Putin he had given the green light to the invasion. Made the decision Lavrov completely surprising.” A turning point that came just a few days after the initiative Putin to “inform the members of its Security Council about the possibility of recognizing the two small states in the Donbass (-) during a televised ceremony – but he hadn’t revealed his true intentions to them,” the newspaper writes.
Thus, “all top executives of the Kremlin They didn’t know about the invasion until they saw it Putin declare a special military operation on television this morning”. during one meet on the same day with several oligarchs“where everyone lost their minds” because they knew that sanctions They hit her hard – one of those present told the newspaper – “one of the oligarchs he asked Lavrov as Putin could have planned such a large invasion with such a small circle, so much so that most of the top officials of the Kremlin, the Russian economic cabinet and its business elite did not even believe that this was possible. “He has three advisors,” he replied Lavrov. Ivan the Terrible. Peter the Great. And Catherine the Great’”.
Putinthought, however, that the war in Ukraine would have resolved in a few days with almost immediate ingestion Kyiv. A scenario that not only did not materialize exactly one year after the start of the conflict, but also led to the involvement of the Born and fromEuropewhich they deliver Kyiv of military aid and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, both military and civilian. And where the statements of escalation and continuation of hostilities currently outweigh the concreteness peace negotiations. “According to Putin’s invasion plan – the Financial Times continues – Russian troops were to capture Kiev within days in a brilliant and relatively bloodless blitzkrieg. Instead, the war turned out to be a swamp of historic proportions for Russia.”