L’Ukraine Take advantage of the crisis Russia and announces that a major offensive has begun in the east, towards Donbass, to recapture the areas that now suddenly seem within reach. And in just a few hours that would have led to the liberation of the areas in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic that had been occupied by pro-Russians since 2014.
Russia: Voronezh fuel depot hit and bursting into flames. He’s on his way to Moscow
The country has watched with a mixture of astonishment, hope and revenge as the situation in Russia escalated. At least until Prigozhin’s announcement in the evening to halt the advance. Especially the televisions in the information marathons conveyed the feeling throughout the day that the war was digging itself like a dagger in the Russian stomach. “Russia’s weakness is obvious. It’s a weakness on a grand scale. And the longer Russia keeps its troops and mercenaries on our land, the more chaos, pain and problems it will have later on,” was President Zelenskyy’s first heated comment this morning after a brief tweet in which he argued, “This is just the beginning .” », when the 25,000 mercenaries of the Wagner rebel militia had not even taken the highway to Moscow.
Kiev’s warning
And the longer Russia keeps its troops and mercenaries on our land, the more chaos, pain and problems it will have later on,” was President Zelenskyy’s first heated comment this morning after a brief tweet in which he argued, “This is just the beginning .” », when the 25,000 mercenaries of the Wagner rebel militia had not even taken the highway to Moscow. “For too long Russia has used propaganda to cover up its weakness and the stupidity of its government. And now there is so much chaos that no lie can hide the reality,” added Zelenskyy, according to whom the tsar is now naked. “I will say in Russian: the man from the Kremlin is obviously very scared and is probably hiding somewhere without showing himself.” I am sure he is no longer in Moscow. He calls somewhere, asks for something from there… He knows what he’s afraid of, because he himself created this threat,” Zelenskyy added in a speech to the nation at the end of the day of shock in the evening.
The reaction of the Ukrainians
For many Ukrainians interviewed by the media, the images are of people running in terror through the streets of Rostov-on-Don while the Wagner militiamen took over headquarters, which until tonight was the headquarters of the Ukraine Operations Command and Post Advance the Russian General Staff. Frightened civilians make Ukrainians feel that Russians, who have been deceived by propaganda for years, are experiencing first-hand what the terror of arms and war is.
However, the enemy of the enemy Putin is not necessarily seen in Kiev as a friend, but rather as one who has all this already planned: facts that do not give hope for an all too rosy future, even if the flag of Putin’s regime should be lowered. Strikingly logical, according to Kiev, is the fact that the man who has been complaining for weeks about the lack of ammunition and logistics is now armed to the teeth in the direction of the capital of “Grandmother Russia”. The chef and former great friend of Putin – this is the most common comment made by Ukrainian media and politicians – is in fact a “monster” created by Putin’s own power to serve him, which instead rebelled against him. “The Wagner uprising is a direct consequence of the war unleashed by the Kremlin, because this illegal group was armed and prepared for aggression against Ukraine. “It is a pity that the problems have now returned to Russia like a boomerang,” commented Zelenskyi’s adviser Mikhailo Podoliak.
And if in Kiev for many months life seems to have superficially returned to everyday life, if the battlefields seem far away and many people no longer pay attention to the frequent nightly air raids, last night death returned to the same Ukrainian capital. All of the aerial bombs launched by Russia (41 cruise missiles and two Iranian Shahed drones) were shot down, Kiev claimed. But shrapnel landed on a skyscraper in the capital, killing at least three people, injuring eight others and causing part of the building to collapse.
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