Russian Federation's "special military operation" one year later>30 Questions and Opinions
Question 31> Is this a grueling battle between good and evil or a chess match between the Russian Federation and NATO or a dual for historical territory with language, culture, and heritage at stake?
What was the historical root cause of Russia’s “special military operation”?
>A chain of events that started in 1890 when the Reinsurance Treaty (a diplomatic peace agreement from 1887 to 1890 between the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's Germany and the Russian Empire) was very unfortunately allowed to lapse. Count Leo von Caprivi, the Prussian general who replaced Otto von Bismarck as chancellor, idiotically severed financial ties and foolishly ended the Reinsurance Treaty despite the Russian willingness to amend the Reinsurance Treaty that sacrificed a “confidential” provision that concerned the Turkish Straits. In 1890, the nonrenewal led Russian Empire and France to form an unfortunate ill-fated entente alliance. The Russian Empire sold their bonds and received new loans on the Paris capital market and fell into financial dependence on French imperialism. On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six assassins (five Serbs and one Bosniak) co-ordinated by Danilo Ilić, a Bosnian Serb and a member of the Black Hand secret society. The "Black Hand" terrorists supposedly coordinated with Serb military intelligence, known as Apis. The Black Hand idiotically believed that a terror act of defiance to the Austria-Hungary Empire would result in a “Greater Serbia”. The Austrian-Hungarian Empire issued a formal legitimate ‘ultimatum’ letter with valid requests to the government of Serbia on 23 July 1914. The Austrian-Hungarian Empire broke diplomatic relations with Serbia due to their unsatisfactory response. Franz Ferdinand's absence (due to his assassination) was a key to the breakdown of diplomacy and escalation into war, as Ferdinand had been the most powerful and effective proponent for peace in Vienna. Elderly Emperor Franz-Joseph erroneously viewed a small skirmish with Serbian militants as a threat (occurred across the Danube river at Temes-Kubinand) and declared war and partially mobilized their army to combat the (already mobilized) Serbian Army on 28 July 1914. Under the Secret Treaty of 1892, Russia and France were obliged to mobilize their armies if any of the Triple Alliance (Austria-Hungary, Germany, Italy) mobilized. During the July Crisis in 1914, Grigori Rasputin desperately urged the Tsar to avoid the conflict and warned that the Russian Empire faced calamity upon involvement. His keen wise advice went unheeded. On July 30, 1914, Tsar Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov took the fateful reluctant step of confirming the order for general mobilization. Russia's general mobilization triggered full Austrian-Hungarian and German mobilizations. The Russian Empire’s unfortunate involvement in World War I severely weakened and further divided their civic society. The Austrians plotted with Vladimir Lenin and gave him safe haven in Switzerland, then ensured safe passage thru Germany and Sweden and onward to Saint Petersburg for the sole purpose of causing anarchy in the Russian Empire in October 1917. The new Bolshevik Soviet government then nullified the French Alliance in 1917 and traded appeasement for territorial concessions with the Central Powers Austrian/German governments in the first Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (signed on 9 February 1918). New Bolshevik Soviet regional governments haphazardly redrew borders from the Russian Empire’s regions and new Soviet republics were self-declared. In the foggy aftermath of World War I, both the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic were self-declared republics. With an authoritarian decree, Vladmir Lenin wrongly incorporated the predominately Russian population of Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic into the Ukrainian People's Republic. The Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) legislature adopted a memorandum on 5 February 2015 declaring itself the successor to the Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic as a consequence of Ukraine’s “Anti-Terrorist Opperation”. The Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic was born in 1918 and originally consisted of three historical Russian Empire regions named Таврическая губерния (Taurida Region is present day Crimea, Kherson, Zaporozhye regions), and Екатеринославская губерния (Ekaterinoslav Region is present day Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics), Харьковская губерния, (present day Kharkov region). Please note that the Херсонская губерния (present day Kherson city and Odessa region) is an overwhelmingly predominate Russian speaking region.
What caused the launch of the Russian Federation’s “special military operation” on 24 February 2022?
>A chain of events that originated in February 2014 when Germany, France and Poland refused to recognize their own signatures on an early election compromise agreement between Ukraine’s former president, Viktor Yanukovich and the nationalist opposition. The failure of Germany, France, Poland, and the Ukrainian nationalist opposition to honor an early election settlement triggered a bloody government coup in Kiev in February 2014. In May 2014, the unelected Ukrainian nationalist government launched a military “anti-terrorist operation” to suppress Ukrainian civilian protests against the putsch. (The European Union had previously pleaded with President Yanukovich not to use military force against Maidan protesters.) The 2014/2015 Minsk (peace) Agreements were signed by Germany, France, and Ukraine to give the Donetsk and Lugansk “special status” within Ukraine in exchange for acceptance of the Ukrainian government. However, the Ukrainian government never intended to implement the Minsk (peace) agreements. Ukraine stalled the peace process for eight years and refused to implement the Minsk accord provisions. Ex-German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview with the Italian magazine Sette that “Ukraine has used this time to become stronger, as we see today. The country of 2014-15 was not the same as it is today. And I doubt that NATO could have done much to help Ukraine as it does right now.” Former French president Francois Hollande also confirmed that the Minsk agreements were used to gain time and strengthen Ukraine’s military. Former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko has since admitted that Kiev’s main goal was to use the ceasefire to buy time and “create powerful armed forces.” From 2014 to present day, the Ukrainian military has fired lethal artillery against civilians and civilian infrastructure in Donbass. The Ukrainian government also economically blockaded all goods and services from Donbass. Hence, the people residing in Donbass were left with a sole humanitarian lifeline to the Russian Federation. The Russian side, according to Sergey Lavrov, did everything possible until the last moment to “de-escalate tensions and to find an equal, mutually respectful agreement". Russian President Vladimir Putin initiated talks with French President Macron, German Chancellor Scholz , USA President Biden from December 2021 to February 2022 for the purpose of formalizing a legally binding security guarantee between NATO and the Russian Federation. Sergey Lavrov stated, “These mutual security guarantee proposals were arrogantly rejected by Washington and NATO. They weren’t even willing to consider our legitimate concerns. The expansion of NATO towards Russian borders, as well as the transformation of fraternal Ukraine into a Russophobic military stronghold capable of hosting nuclear weapons left us with no way out." Just over a year ago on 17 February 2022, on the orders of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, the Ukrainian armed forces, led by the national battalions, dramatically escalated the suppression of Donbass by force, increasing the bombing of populated areas. In response to the official appeal of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) and the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), the Russian Federation recognized their autonomous independence and in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter came to their aid by launching a “special military operation."
What is the primary purpose of the Russian Federation’s “special military operation”?
>Protection and security for the predominately ethnic Russian population of Donbass to speak their native Russian language and to preserve their culture and heritage that dates back centuries. Russian Federation’s President Vladimir Putin stated during State of the Nation Address to the Federal Assembly on February 21, 2023, "Dear colleagues, the Russian Federation is an open country and at the same time a unique civilization. This thesis lays no claim to exclusivity and superiority. But this civilization of ours is what matters most. We have inherited it from our ancestors and must preserve it for our descendants." Ukraine attacked their own citizens with an ‘anti-terrorist operation’ using military forces in May 2014. Ukraine failed to abide by and implement the 2014-2015 Minsk peace accords. After stalling for time to build a powerful army, Ukraine planned to launch a-full scale attack on Donbass in March 2022. Hence the Russian Federation’s “special military operation” was launched as a pre-emptive measure. President Putin invoked United Nations Article 51 that provides a legal justification for military intervention. Responsibility To Protect (R2P) could actually be justified, after all, by most estimates, the Ukrainian army has killed over 14,000 ethnic Russians including precious children since 2014. In addition, Articles 106 and 107 of the UN Charter give the Russian Federation, as the legal successor to the victor of World War II, the right to take any action, including military ones, against Germany, Hungary, Austria, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, Croatia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Ukraine for attempts to revive Nazism. Speaking before the United Nations General Assembly on February 23, 2023, envoy Vasily Nebenzia reiterated that Russia launched its “special military operation” offensive “in order to stop the eight-year military aggression by the Ukrainian authorities against the a predominately Russian speaking people of Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics.” Thus, the Russian Federation is defending their ethnic motherland of truth, justice, moral principles and spiritual values from desecration, oppression, prosecution, and extinction.
What brought the Ukraine government to the negotiation table in March 2022?
>Fear of losing on the battlefield and fear of losing their grip on their central control power structure. (the same fear that brought the Ukrainian government to the negotiation table in Minsk in 2014 and 2015.) The Russian Federation had a near stranglehold around Kiev for approximately one month (after 24 February and before 30 March 2022). Russian troops were located in the settlements of Bucha, Gostomel (including Antonov airport that is 15 minutes from Kiev ring road), Chernobyl, Chernigov, Borodyanka, Irpen, Dymer, Liptsi, Strilecha, and most important Borispol airport. During this time, the Ukrainian government descended into a secure shelter bunker under the president’s office on Bankovaya Street in central Kiev according to the British newspaper ‘The Times’.
What will bring the Ukrainian government to the peace negotiation table in the future?
>Only fear. The fear of losing on the battlefield and fear of losing their grip on their centralized control power structure. According to Ukraine’s former Prime Minister (2010-2014) Nikolai Azarov, Ukraine is also under the control of top attaché officials from the US Central Intelligence Agency and British MI-6.
What would have been a better strategy in the beginning of the Russian Federation’s “special military operation”?
>Although a near stranglehold around Kiev brought the Ukrainian government to the negotiation table, the Russian Federation found out once again that peace talks are only used to stall for time. Throughout the peace negotiations, the Ukrainian government had no intentions of recognizing the “special status” and autonomy of the Donetsk Peoples Republic and the Lugansk Peoples Republic. I personally would have avoided the stranglehold around Kiev. Instead, I would have used the passive Russian military troops in Belarus as a decoy distraction. I would have concentrated all active Russian forces in the soft underbelly of the southern regions and along the contact line in the Donbass. I would have militarily secured the complete southern coast that would put Ukraine in a landlocked position. This southern stranglehold would continually force Ukraine back to negotiation table for access to the Black Sea and also have the additional benefit of solving the Transnistria dispute.
Why is the Russian Federation’s “special military operation” going so slowly especially on the 70 kilometer engagement line in the Russian Federation’s Donetsk region?
>The Russian Federation faithfully abides by international treaties on conventional warfare. On the hand, Ukraine violates Geneva Conventions by using civilians as human shields with civilian infrastructure used for firing positions. The Russian Federation must exercise caution to prevent escalation and provocations that would cause NATO to intervene in Ukraine. In essence, the Russian Federation has to very carefully defuse a World War 3 ticking time bomb in fraternal Ukraine constructed by NATO. Furthermore, Ukraine has heavily fortified a 70 kilometer three layered checkerboard front line of defense that extends along the Avdeevka, Ugledar, Kurakhovo, Maryinka, Krasnoarmeisk, Artyomovsk, Soledarsk, Mayorsk, Seversk, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Krasnogorovka, Chasov Yar settlements. Moreover, combat conditions are tough. The current front contact line resembles the trench warfare of World War I with the exception of using drones to adjust and fine-tune firing. Russian military men in freezing cold and damp dug out bunkers consistently grind out positional battles with constant artillery duels. Russian military men deal with sleep deprivation and also with Ukrainian illegal tactics of using toxic chemical gas grenades along with aerosols sprays from agricultural quadcopters during close combat encounters. Commanders from the Ugledar, Artyomovsk, Soledarsk and Mayorsk directions detailed numerous reports of chemical weapon deployment by Ukrainian forces that resulted in people suffering from mucous membrane irritation, coughing, nausea, and general malaise. Chemical warfare is forbidden under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty ratified in 1997, with pledged adherence signed by Ukraine. Despite these obstacles, Russian forces every day destroy Ukraine’s lethal weapons and regularly inflict irreversible personnel losses on Ukrainian troops. Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) units are destroyed every day whether it be a Grad, an Uragan, a HIMARS or an Olkha. Meanwhile, Russian forces have to continually grind down a NATO steady stream of lethal weapons worth 100 billion dollars both at the front contact line and along the routes of their deliveries. Thus, making it perfectly clear that the USA/EU/UK and NATO allies have the objective to prolong the conflict. In one year (24 Feb 2022-2023), according to Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, a total of 387 aircraft, 210 helicopters, 3,228 drones, 405 anti-aircraft missile systems, 8,011 tanks and other armored vehicles, 1,044 multiple rocket launchers, 4,205 field artillery systems and mortars, as well as 8,515 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed since the start of the Russian Federation’s “special military operation”.
Why does Ukraine attack civilians and civilian infrastructure especially in the Donetsk city and the Donetsk Republic?
>Since 2014, the Ukrainian government and military have attacked their own citizens during their “anti-terrorist operation”. Ukraine’s “anti-terrorist” campaign uses psychological pressure for punishment and ethnic cleansing. Ukrainian nationalists hope to break the proud morale and resistance spirit of people with Russian ethnicity. Former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko vowed, “Our children will go to school, while their children will go sit in basements. That’s how we will win this war”. Ukrainian nationalists have damaged and destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes and livelihoods in order to make local residents suffer and to punitively dehumanize them. Ukrainian troops continually intimidate civilians by attacking residential areas in the Russian Federation’s border regions while depriving citizens a normal way of life to pursue liberty and happiness.
How does Ukraine violate the law of armed combat?
>The Ukrainian military blatantly violates their legally binding obligation to stop unnecessary suffering of humans during combat. The Ukrainian military routinely prevents civilians from leaving settlements along humanitarian corridors organized by the Russian side, deliberately strikes medic evacuations/medical facilities, deploys anti-personnel mines, and tortures prisoners of war. Specific examples of numerous recorded Ukrainian military war crimes include the following violations: First, most recently in February 2023, Ukrainian armed forces lethally targeted a group of medical workers in an ambulance who were on their way to evacuate wounded personnel from the Ugledar area. Second, on January 28,2023 at around 7:30 AM, Ukrainian armed forces launched an intentional HIMARS multiple rocket attack on a hospital in Novoaidar. Fourteen patients and medical employees were killed, while 24 more suffered wounds. The medical facility in Novoaidar is located dozens of kilometers away from the frontlines in the central part of the Lugansk People’s Republic. The Russian Federation’s Defense Ministry stated, “A deliberate missile strike on a known civilian healthcare facility is an absolutely grave war crime.” Article 18 of the Geneva Convention of 1949 clearly states, ‘Civil hospitals that provide assistance to the wounded, the ill, the disabled and birthing mothers cannot be attacked under any circumstances.’ Third, Ukraine’s military forces have dropped artillery shells filled with cluster munitions like flechettes and Lepestok anti-personnel mines in family neighborhoods (most recently in the Petrovsky district) where only civilians live. A PFM-1 Lepestok (also called butterfly mine due to small size and wing shape) is a pressure activated anti-personnel mine made of khaki-colored polyethylene and difficult to detect. Over one hundred civilians including children have been killed, disabled, and injured upon contact when these mines detonated. Anti-personnel mines usage is prohibited under the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty and the Ottawa Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-Personnel Mines that Ukraine signatory ratified in 2005. Fourth, the Ukrainian military fragrantly violates the Geneva Convention of 1949 prohibiting the use of prisoner of war (POW) torture, violence and outrages upon personal dignity. Unfortunately, the United Nations Committee Against Torture, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the International Committee of the Red Cross have currently failed to apply their authority to denounce these Ukrainian crimes. Numerous video clips posted by Ukrainian nationalists clearly show evidence of POW torture and murder. One video shows Ukrainian soldiers using semi-automatic rifles to shoot captured Russian soldiers in the legs after they exited a vehicle. Another video clip showed at least ten Russian soldiers shot dead at close range while lying face down by Ukrainian soldiers in the village of Makeyevka in the Lugansk People’s Republic. Another 30-second graphic video clip displayed an armed Ukrainian soldier who fired several rounds at the head of one of the captives, before switching his attention to another POW. A third POW can be seen motionless on the snow-covered ground with blood next to his head. Even the USA New York Times verified these reports and cited Dr. Rohini Haar’s, (medical adviser at Physicians for Human Rights) statement, “killing or wounding a combatant, who, having laid down his arms or having no longer means of defense, has surrendered at discretion, is a violation of the laws of international armed conflict.”
What happened in Bucha?
>On February 27, Russian military forces had control of Bucha. Civilians took shelter in their homes. Ukrainian forces intermittently fired lethal artillery directed at Bucha for three weeks that resulted in civilian casualties. During quiet periods, civilians ventured outdoors for various reasons including getting food/supplies and wore white arm bands as a neutral or friendly signal to the Russian forces. After a negotiation in Turkey, the Russian Federation fulfilled their good will gesture and withdrew their forces on March 30 to further a roadmap for peace. The Ukrainian forces entered Bucha on March 31 and took full control without announcing mass killings. The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) then began their interrogation and filtration of the Ukrainian civilian population in Bucha. Civilians were shot and killed by Ukrainian radical soldiers when found to have associated with Russian forces. On April 2, the Ukrainian government took advantage and staged a provocation with videos in order to sabotage/stop future peace negotiations and gain international sympathy. Dead bodies from Ukrainian vigilante punishment and from Ukrainian shelling were placed near roads with some that had their hands tied with a piece of white cloth as a warning for collaborators.
Why did the “special military operation” expand into the Kherson, Zaporozhye, and Kharkov regions?
>The purpose of the expansion was to protect predominately Russian speaking people of Kherson, Zaporozhye, and Kharkov regions who would have suffered from repercussions, reprisals and retributions by the Ukrainian nationalist authorities. The Russian Federation wanted to preemptively prevent the Kherson, Zaporozhye, and Kharkov regions from suffering the same fate as the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. Please note the Kherson, Zaporozhye, and Kharkov regions were historically part of the Russian Empire until 1917 with an overwhelming predominate Russian speaking population. The 1917 Bolshevik revolution haphazardly dissolved Russian regional borders and created Soviet Republics all throughout the Russian Empire. The Soviet Bolshevik regime was responsible for establishing superficial borders, named in the case, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. In addition, the Russian military had planned a strategic pincer maneuver in the Kharkov to go around the 70 kilometer fortified checkboard contact line located in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
Why did Russian forces withdraw from vast areas in the Kharkov region?
>The Russian military forces were over extended in the vast Kharkov region with too much territory to defend. The logistics to supply products for support of the local population as well as their own troops would have been very difficult to maintain during the winter season. Since stability and reliability of their delivery chain network was essential, the Russian military withdrew their forces to positions of strength in both the Lugansk People’s Republic and outskirt settlements in the Kharkov region.
Why did Russian forces withdraw from Kherson city?
>In late October 2022, the Russian Defense ministry made the difficult decision to start a volunteer evacuation of citizens from Kherson city. Kherson city is located on the western bank of the Dnieper River and separated from the Kherson region mainland. Ukrainian military forces intentionally blew up, damaged and destroyed civilian bridges that connect Kherson city to the Kherson region mainland. Additionally, Ukrainian military forces targeted civilian ferry boats (the only means of crossing the Dnieper River) on a regular basis that made river crossing very dangerous. During a two week window, approximately 115,000 civilians voluntarily made the stressful decision to leave their livelihood, home, and possessions behind in order to evacuate Kherson city and relocate to the eastern bank. And then on November 9, 2022, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu ordered all Russian forces withdrawn from the western bank of the Dnieper River on recommendation by Army General Sergey Surovikin. General Surovikin pointed out that even though Russian troops were successfully defending Kherson city, intelligence reports indicated that the Ukrainian military was planning a false flag event by blowing up their own Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant. The Ukrainian government sought to either get NATO militarily involved or create an international humanitarian outcry by disastrous downstream floods that would inundate Kherson city. In addition, Russian forces would be isolated and vulnerable on the western bank of Dnieper River if this possible tragic event occurred. Please note that Ukrainian troops have already blown up a dam at the Severny Stavok water reservoir in Artyomovsk in February 2023.
What is the tragic consequence of Russian military forces withdrawing from previously held territory?
>The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) officially conducts interrogation and filtration campaigns against civilians in order to apprehend ‘traitors’ for the purpose of psychological ‘rehabilitation’ or physical punishment. For example, a special re-education program, euphemistically described as "repatriation into the glory of Ukrainian society", for perceived violators was launched in a camp in the city of Dnepr (formerly Dnepropetrovsk). The Ukrainian government declared an initiative to “overcome the consequences of Russification,” that purged millions of copies of Russian-language books from schools/public libraries, renamed Russian worded streets, and dismantled Russian historical monuments (like Russian Empress Catherine the Great in Odessa). Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov condemned the Ukrainian centralized authoritarian policy of aggressive de-Russification and forced assimilation.
What was the biggest military asset loss for the Russian Federation?
>The loss of the Russian missile cruiser Moskva. On April 13, the Russian missile cruiser Moskva was stationed in the Black Sea, about 120 km from the coast. Ukraine did not have over-the-horizon radars at that time, and conventional radar cannot show targets at such a distance. Therefore, an American P-8 Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft was implicated in their involvement by providing the exact coordinates to the Ukrainian operator of the Neptune military complex. The Ukrainian military then fired subsonic Neptune missiles over the water and sadly reached the Moskva in about six minutes.
What is the saddest tragedy from 2014 to present day?
>The loss of human life. Losing a loved one is an emotionally painful and excruciating grief. Thus far, over 15 thousand people have needlessly lost their lives. Moreover, innocent men, women, children, who are hundreds of kilometers from front line of contact, have been targeted by Ukrainian forces. Recently on February 19, 2023, the Ukrainian army shelled the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka, Belgorod Oblast and killed a 12-year-old girl during this barbaric bombardment of a neighborhood community. And notably, an innocent Daria Dugina, a 29-year-old journalist, daughter of philosopher Alexander Dugin, was assassinated by Ukrainian service agents, Natalya Vovk and Bogdan Tsyganenko on August 20, 2022, when her car was blown up on Mozhaisk highway near the village of Bolshiye Vyazyomy, in the Odintsovo district of the Moscow Region. In addition, residents from the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions regions constantly endure humanitarian hardships that include severe water, electricity, gas shortages with massive civilian infrastructure destruction. The Ukrainian government blocked the Slavyansk-Seversky Donets-Donbass water canal that provided fresh water to hundreds of thousands of people. Since the Ukrainian government began their “anti-terrorist operation” offensive in 2014, hundreds of thousands of homes, apartments, healthcare and educational institutions have been destroyed. Furthermore, the Ukrainan government’s endorsement of the notorious ‘Mirotvorets’ (Peacemaker) website is an incriminating indictment nail in the proverbal coffin for their utter comtempt of human life. This ‘Mirotvorets’ website advocates assassination with a ‘kill list’ database of people including journalists, humanitarian volunteers, and local politicians. “This kill list is maintained by the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior, which lists an address in Langley, Virginia, has an IP in Brussels,” said American political activist Jackson Hinkle, who was recently added to this database. NBC News correspondent Keir Simmons is also placed on this ‘Mirotvorets’ blacklist for his visit to Crimea via the Russian Federation that is considered a crime against Ukraine. Ukraine could have easily avoided the Russian Federation’s “special military operation’ by simply honoring the 2014/2015 Minsk accord agreements that would give “special status” to the population in Donbass to live peacefully within Ukraine. All the Donbass people wanted was a normal life. Instead the Ukrainian government upped the ante with militarized hostile confrontation that began in 2014. The Ukrainian government lacks empathy and disregards compassion with their hostility and their chosen course toward willful escalation of the conflict. Hence, the Ukrainian government’s contemptuous mind against their Russian population is indicative of ill mental health.
Are NATO personnel involved in battles between the Russian Federation and Ukraine?
>Yes. NATO personnel from 27 out of 30 NATO member countries are active in logistically providing military equipment to Ukraine. NATO’s entire military infrastructure (including their intelligence operations, reconnaissance aviation, and satellite data) is involved against the Russian Federation in a 24/7 mode. The Washington Post newspaper quoted a statement by Pentagon Spokesperson Patrick Ryder, who said: "We have long acknowledged that we share intelligence with Ukraine." NATO provides and confirms target coordinates for the vast majority of missile strikes using advanced USA rocket systems. In addition to shipping and equipping lethal weapons to Ukraine, NATO is directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine by training Ukrainian military personnel.
What was the greatest military achievement and historical achievement for the Russian Federation?
>The greatest military achievement was establishing a land corridor bridge to Crimea via the Rostov-on-Don—-Dzhankoy highway. This land bridge allowed Russian forces to control the North Crimean Canal in order to restore the fresh water supply to the Crimean Peninsula after eight years of a deliberate water blockade by Ukraine. In addition, this land bridge enabled a re-connection into the main electricity supply grid. (Please note that on November 22, 2015, these power lines were blown up by Ukrainian saboteurs after Crimea’s reunification with the Russian Federation. More than 2 million residents of Crimea were left without electricity. The power supply system of the peninsula switched to an isolated mode of operation, a state of emergency was introduced, and rolling blackouts occurred. The situation improved with the launch of a 400 MW energy bridge from the Kuban across the Kerch Strait. Then, new networks were built, and power units of the Balaklava TPP in Sevastopol and the Tavricheskaya TPP in Simferopol were launched.) Another strategic benefit is that the Russian Federation controls the entirety of the Azov Sea.
The greatest historical achievement occurred on October 5, 2022 when President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the reunification accession of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Lugansk People’s Republic, the Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions to the Russian Federation. From September 23 to September 27, 2022, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions held a referendum that resulted in an overwhelming majority of voters who opted to join the Russia Federation. Thus, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions are now officially and legally incorporated and enshrined in the Russian Federation’s constitution.
What was the biggest discovery revelation during the Russian Federation’s “special military operation”?
>The Russian Federation’s “special military operation” uncovered and identified a network of more than 30 biological laboratories on the territory of Ukraine sponsored by the USA Department of Defense’s Biological Threat Reduction Agency. Igor Kirillov, the Russian Federation’s chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Force, presented a report that stated that on February 24, the day when the Russian Federation’s “special military operation” began, the Ukraine’s Health Ministry gave orders to completely relocate any bioagents in stock and destroy evidence concerning the activities of biological laboratories. Igor Kirillov later stated that funds belonging to George Soros helped finance the activities of 30 Ukrainian laboratories in 14 communities. These laboratories, according to Kirillov, sent collected strains of infectious agents to the United States and that the movement of pathogens was not controlled within the framework of the WHO, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons (BTWC) or other international institutions. The Russian Defense Ministry’s report provided evidence that several thousand samples of the serum of patients, "primarily belonging to the Slavic ethnic group" were taken out of Ukraine and shipped to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. USA biological laboratories in the immediate vicinity of the Russia Federation has three purposes, and only one of them is allowed by the Convention on Bioweapons. Konstantin Kosachev, a deputy speaker of the Russian Federation Council stated, “The legal purpose is biological situation monitoring that study infections in order to develop countermeasures. The second and third technologies are obviously criminal and violate the norms of the convention on bioweapons and the norms of human morality.” "The second ‘gain of function’ technology is to enhance the pathogenic properties of certain bioagents, to make them more contagious, in order to then offer humanity rescue measures in the event of a pandemic of the corresponding infection. The third technology is the creation of proprietary bioweapon components specific to a particular region designed for use against agricultural products, against animals and ultimately against people." Hence, the USA’s covert experimental projects implemented in their dual-use biolaboratories pose a military-biological weapon threat with potential catastrophic consequences for the life and health of people. The USA has a total of approximately 300 US biolaboratories located in foreign countries including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Uzbekistan along the borders of the Russian Federation. That begs the question, why does the USA Defense Department need so many biological laboratories worldwide? Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated, “We consider the military-biological activities carried out by the United States and its allies near our border as a potential threat to our national security.” State Duma Deputy Speaker Irina Yarovaya and Federation Council Deputy Speaker Konstantin Kosachev are commission co-chairs who are scheduled to produce a factsheet that will be submitted to the Russian Federation’s president/government and to international organizations in March 2023.
Why did the Russian Federation wait until September to mobilize more military personnel?
>The Russian Federation had hoped peace negotiations would settle the conflicting viewpoints with Ukraine and NATO. The Russian Federation’s small scale military force had tremendous territorial gains with the exception of the Ukrainian fortified 70 kilometer front line in the Donetsk People’s Republic. However, NATO’s constant billion dollar flow of sophisticated lethal weapons in addition to Ukraine’s full scale mass military mobilization increasingly endangered the Russian Federation’s civilian population. Hence the Russian Defense Ministry declared an abrupt 300,000 mass mobilization in September as a defensive countermeasure to safeguard the Russian Federation’s border regions and as an offensive measure to liberate the rest of the Donetsk People’s Republic. In my opinion, the Russian Defense Ministry waited too long and mobilized too many personnel at one time. Instead I would have started in March to incrementally mobilize 50,000 personnel per month for six months that would have added up to same 300,000 total requirement. Also, in my opinion, the Russian Defense Ministry lacked realistic vision while pinning their hopes on a rational peace settlement with an irrational Ukrainian government.
Why is the Wagner Group PMC involved in the Russian Federation’s “special military operation”?
>The Wagner Group is a Russian private military company that is hired via contract to perform a specified combat mission. The USA government created the blueprint for modern day defense contracting. The Russian Federation merely copied and adopted the concept. The Wagner Group was given the assignment to liberate settlements along the dangerous 70-kilometer front line in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The Wagner Group specializes in urban close quarters combat. The Wagner Group successfully achieved the task of liberating Soledar and is presently engaged in liberating the major stronghold of Artyomovsk. Although the Russian Defense Ministry has praised the Wagner Group strike teams’ “courageous and selfless actions”, a warranted rift has presently developed. Yevgeny Prigozhin, (the Wagner Group founder) accused the defense ministry and its Chief of the General Staff of purposefully blocking advanced munitions to Wagner fighters. On February 20, a seven-minute audio message was published by the Wagner Group's press service. Yevgeny Prigozhin (who is near the front contact line in support of his men) spoke with an emotional voice in a plea to secure more firepower ammunition for his fighters. Yevgeny Prigozhin stated “I’m unable to solve this problem despite all my connections and contacts.” Yevgeny Prigozhin is also highly critical of top-level generals and even Kremlin officials while appealing to popular discontent over the operation's slow execution. His message also stated some Defense Ministry officials were negligent while "eating breakfast, lunch and dinner off golden plates" and “sending their family members to Dubai on vacation”. In my opinion, I fully support Yevgeny Prigozhin. My intent is not to sow discord. I really hope the Russian Defense Ministry fullfills all requested requirements with state-of-the-art firepower and fully 100 percent supports the mission operations of the Wagner Group.
Who shells the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (NPP) and why?
>Only the Ukrainian army shells the Zaporozhye NPP (the largest nuclear power plant in Europe with a capacity of 6 GW) with the use of drones, heavy artillery and multiple rocket launchers. Russian forces took control of the Zaporozhye NPP (located near the city of Energodar) in late February 2022 and therefore would never shell themselves. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi is a western puppet. Director General Grossi’s idea of establishing a safety and security zone around the Zaporozhye NNP is flawed on purpose to provide a vacuum for recapture by the Ukrainian military. Minimum shelling attacks on the nuclear power plant have occurred since the beginning of 2023 due to push back deterrence of Russian protective forces. Russia’s emergencies ministry is ensuring round-the-clock safety of the Zaporozhye NNP by deploying 27 firefighting units comprised of more than 1,000 firefighters and more than 110 special vehicles in the the Zaporozhye region. Only Ukraine shells the Zaporozhye NNP for the purpose of instigating an international humanitarian disaster in order to get NATO directly involved in the conflict. “Anything” can be expected from the Ukrainian government.
Who planted explosives on the NORD Stream 1 & 2 natural gas pipelines?
>NATO with coordinated approval from the USA, Norway and NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg who is Norwegian. From 5 to 17 June, NATO used the cover of the annual Exercise Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) 22 off the coast of Bornholm inland, Denmark in the Baltic Sea. During the BATTOPS 22 exercise, the USA Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) delivered a decompression chamber to a Norwegian ship. Naval divers dove down 260 feet and attached C4 explosives onto the steel covered/concrete shielded NORD STREAM 1 &2 pipelines. On September 26, 2022, a Norwegian Navy P8 surveillance plane made a seemingly routine flight and dropped a sonar buoy. The buoy’s sonar signal spread under water and triggered high-powered C4 explosives a few hours later that severely ruptured three of the four pipelines. Only one of the four pipelines (Nord Stream 2 leg) remained operationally intact probably due to a detonation malfunction. Any technologically competent unbiased investigation would have found evidence of C4 residue or perhaps the unexploded C4 ordinance however Sweden, Denmark, and Germany findings will remained secretly classified. Sweden, Denmark, and Germany suspiciously refused the Russian Federation’s request to participate in any investigation even though the Russian Federation had a multi-billion dollar investment in the Nord Stream 1 &2 natural gas pipelines. Secret intelligent sources substantiated this information to USA investigative reporter Seymour Hersh.
Who detonated an explosion on the civilian Crimean bridge located outside the military combat area?
>The Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR), headed by Commander, Kirill Budanov, of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry most likely organized the terror attack on the Crimean bridge that links the Russian Federation’s mainland to the Crimea peninsula over the Kerch Strait. Ukrainian officials also incriminated themselves by openly celebrating the attack, while Ukraine’s postal service issued a stamp commemorating the blast. On October 8, 2022, a tractor trailer truck loaded with explosives exploded and damaged two spans of the bridge’s motorway section and caused a fire that ignited fuel oil tank carriages of a freight train on a parallel bridge railway track with a destination to the Krasnodar Territory. Eight suspects that include five Russians along with three foreign nationals who hold passports of Ukraine and Armenia are in custody. Four more suspects have been identified and are wanted by the Russian Federation’s FSB. Russian law enforcement detailed that a suspected shipment left the Ukrainian port city of Odessa in August and went through Ruse, Bulgaria, to Poti in Georgia. The suspected shipment was then moved to Armenia (a country having a free trade agreement and a relaxed customs regime with the Russian Federation) and loaded onto the suspected truck. The transportation paperwork identified a non-existent company firm in Crimea as the final recipient. An agent of Ukraine’s GUR, known as ‘Ivan Ivanovich’, controlled the progress of the shipment by using an anonymous ‘virtual’ phone number for communication as well as a second regular mobile number, linked to a Ukrainian citizen. The explosives inside the truck’s trailer were disguised as construction materials that consisted of large rolls with plastic construction film placed on pallets weighing 22,770 kg. Innocent people were killed. Most notably, a husband and wife couple from St. Petersburg who worked as tour guides were killed in the Crimean Bridge explosion attack. The pair was travelling to Crimea to shoot a documentary about the last Russian Tsar. Zoya was a professional historian and journalist, while Eduard specialized in the history and architecture of St. Petersburg. Zoya and Eduard published a documentary series about the last Russian emperor, Nikolai II, and his family titled: ‘The Last Romanovs. The fall of the empire’ on their Youtube channel. They were on their way to visit the Livadia Palace, the former summer retreat of Nikolai II and also renowned for the historical significance of hosting the Yalta Peace Conference that brought together Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt in 1945. The couple were travelling together with a friend from Moscow, a judge identified as Sergey, who also had a house in Crimea, where the friends had planned to stay for a month.
Are the unilateral sanctions against the Russian Federation illegal?
>Yes. Unilateral sanctions imposed by the USA/EU/UK are illegal and primarily designed to hurt innocent common people namely Russians and Belarusians. A hegemonic regime has used the coercive secondary sanction threat to terrify many countries (like Bangladesh) into conformity. Additionally, organizations like the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are controlled by hegemonic overlords and impose illegitimate, inhuman sanctions on Russian and Belarusian athletes. On February 28, 2022, the IOC issued recommendations to international sports federations to bar athletes from Russia and Belarus from participation in international tournaments. Following the IOC’s recommendations, the majority of global sport federations (including football, skiing, gymnastics, auto racing and figure skating) decided to bar athletes from Russia and Belarus from all international sport tournaments. International sport events are also forbidden to be hosted in Russia and Belarus that deny spectator fans their home-field advantage of cheering their teams and athletes. In hot pursuit of mixing political views with sports, the International Paralympic Committee bowed to heavy internal pressure on March 3, 2022, the eve of the Paralympic Games opening ceremony in Beijing, China, and inhumanly punitively punished disabled Russian and Belarusian athletes by denying their right to participate in sport event competitions. At its session on January 25, 2023, the IOC Executive Board issued a follow-up proposal to permit individual athletes from Russia and Belarus to participate in international sports tournaments, but only under certain conditions. Athletes from the Russian Federation and Belarus must compete under a neutral status, no flag, no anthems, no national symbols whatsoever displayed while revoking accreditation for Russian/Belarusian state officials to attend international sports events. Furthermore, the USA/EU/UK have betrayed the fundamental rights and freedoms recognized in the Charter of Fundamental Rights by banning the freedom of expression. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has suspended the membership of the Russian Union of Journalists. The USA/EU/UK has revoked the broadcast license of RT in numerous languages while blocking their website in order to propagate an information warfare narrative and forbid the other side of the story to be told. The Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated, "We have become witnesses to the flagrant act of mass totalitarian media censorship, the biggest-ever in all of history. Entire segments of the global information space have been practically cleared of Russian media presence." She also noted, "All possible formats of restrictions have been used against Russian sources of information. More than 40 Russian media resources have been blocked and barred from broadcasting this year alone (2022). Unwanted journalists are denied accreditation and risk arrest when reporting abroad. Entire editorial boards of the ‘wrong side’ are purged or reduced to self-censorship that is overseen by special national intelligence services and enforced by systematic pressure, criminal prosecution, open harassment and threats.” Moreover, the USA/EU/UK unilateral sanctions have denied the right of freedom of movement by imposing an air embargo with closed airspace on Russian and Belarusian national airlines. I personally faced a hardship of a four and half queue at the Lithuania border with an overnight stay on benches at the Vilnius airport as opposed to an easy flight from Minsk airport in the past. The USA/EU/UK unilateral sanctions have denied the freedom to conduct personal financial transactions. I personally had a financial transaction of my own money blocked by SWIFT from my own USA bank account to my Belarus bank account. The USA/EU/UK unilateral sanctions have prohibited the right of the freedom to conduct commerce exchange of products and services between businesses/post offices. I personally had post office mail forbidden to be sent from the USA to Belarus. I among millions of people only blame the USA/EU/UK for inflicting hardships on innocent citizens. "Anti-Russian sanctions are only a means, while the goal is, as Western leaders themselves declare, and I quote: 'to make our citizens suffer’. That's what kind of 'humanists' they are. They want to make people suffer in order to destabilize our society from within. But they miscalculated badly," Russian Federation’s President Vladimir Putin stated during State of the Nation Address to the Federal Assembly on February 21, 2023. *Please note that the United Nations security council is the only legal authority to approve and impose sanctions. The USA/EU/UK with vassal allies continually abuse their domination in the global arena by means of force, illegitimate sanctions, double standards, ultimatums, blackmail, and threats.
Will the unilateral sanctions be lifted once the Russian Federation’s “special military operation” is over?
>No. Cuba has been under USA unilateral sanctions for over 60 years. USA/EU/UK Illegal unilateral sanctions are an economic ‘suffocation’ containment tool to stifle a sovereign nation’s prosperity by punishing innocent civilians until they submit to world domination hegemony. Therefore, sanctioned Russian and Belarusian people must find innovated ways to persevere and prosper. The price of sovereignty (national and personal) is very high. President Putin stated in his State of the Nation Address to the Federal Assembly on February 21, 2023, “I know many [Russian businessmen] personally for many years. They are strong people, schooled by adversity. Launch new projects, earn money, invest in Russia, invest in plants and jobs, help schools and universities, science and healthcare, culture and sport. This is the way you will grow your capital and earn recognition and gratitude from people for generations to come, while the government and society will definitely support you."
Can the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, together with Kherson and Zaporozhye regions be classified and defined as a reunification with the Russian Federation?
> Yes. A reunification unites people who speak the same language and share the same culture and heritage. The Soviet Bolsheviks haphazardly renamed and combined Russian regions of the Russian Empire to create Soviet republics. The Soviet Bolsheviks haphazardly drew new borders to form a brand-new republic named Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, together with Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions, joined the Russian Federation after holding public referendums with international observers in September 2022. On the opposite side of the spectrum, an annexation as an example is defined by Israel capturing and keeping territory (west bank of Palestine) from Jordan in the 1967 war. The people who reside in the west bank of Palestine speak an entirely different language with different religion, culture, and heritage. No country sanctions Israel. The United Nations Security Council resolution “strongly opposes all unilateral measures that impede peace,” including the “construction and expansion of settlements, confiscation of Palestinians’ land, the ‘legalization’ of settlement outposts, demolition of Palestinians homes and displacement of Palestinian civilians.” Ongoing settlement activity is dangerously imperiling the viability of the two-state solution. The ‘two-state solution’ is among several blueprints proposed to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict over the decades, envisioning an independent state of Palestine based on the territory’s borders as they existed before the Six-Day War in 1967. A long line of humanitarian organizations repeatedly denounced the Israeli settlements on the West Bank as violations of international law – namely Article 49 of the Geneva Conventions, that states “occupying powers” must not “deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” Israel would never hold referendums in the West Bank!
Can the military objective of denazification and demilitarization be achieved?
>Yes and no. Yes, the denazification and demilitarization will be achieved in the Russian Federation’s Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, together with Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions. The peace settlement terms must ensure security guarantees that depends upon demilitarization of long-range lethal weapons and prohibition of nuclear weapons in Ukraine. No. Unfortunately, the Ukrainian government will keep indoctrinating their next generation youth via ‘academies’. For example, the Ukrainian government instills national exceptionalism supremacy and ethnic hatred upon Russians by teaching their teenagers 15, 16 and 17 years of age (dressed in camouflaged fatigues and black track suits with Ukrainian military insignia) to fire assault rifles via a computer simulation at an ‘enemy’ target.
When will the Russian Federation’s “special military operation” end?
>Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of the Russian Federation’s Republic of Chechnya presently stated, "Although some say that it will take a year, or two, or even three [to complete the special operation], I think that by the end of the year (2023), we will have completed 100% of our task. I believe that the least we must do is take Odessa and Kharkov, which will go a long way in ensuring the security of our state," he said in an interview with the 60 Minutes program on the Rossiya-1 television channel. At that time, the Chechen leader urged the Russian Defense Ministry to adopt a bolder offensive strategy.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner Group PMC, presently stated, “The ongoing conflict between the Russia Federation and Ukraine will likely continue for up to three more years, depending on the goals Moscow actually pursues. If we need to cover the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, then we need to work for at least another year and a half or two. If we need to completely liquidate NATO’s billion dollar longer range weapons by going to the Dnieper River, then the conflict will last even longer and drag on for up to three more years”, he stated in an exclusive interview with Semyon Pegov of the independent WarGonzo project.
Russian Federation’s President Vladimir Putin stated during State of the Nation Address to the Federal Assembly on February 21, 2023, "One idea should be very clear to everyone. The longer the range of the NATO systems delivered to Ukraine, the farther away from our borders we will be forced to push the threat. This is only natural."
Denis Pushilin, leader of the Russian Federation’s Donetsk People’s Republic stated, “The engagement line must be moved as far away as possible. We are well aware that if Ukraine obtains such longer-range weapons, we will have to push its forces farther away from the DPR’s territory to a point from where it will be physically unable to reach our communities. The more long-range western systems will be delivered to Ukraine, the more we will be forced to push the threat away from our borders. Consequently, the special military operation will take more time."
I hopefully believe the Russian Federation’s “special military operation” will end in February 2024. Once Russian forces break through the 70 kilometer long checkboard fortifications in the Donetsk People’s Republic, then the pace of military mission operations will rapidly accelerate the conditions for a peace agreement.
What should future settlement terms of peace agreement treaty between the Russian Federation and Ukraine contain?
>I hopefully believe the Russian Federation’s “special military operation” will end with peaceful implementation upon the capitulation of Ukraine. Future settlement terms must include recognition of the Russian Federation’s new regions (Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics and Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions). The Russian Federation must insist that Ukraine demilitarize their long-range missile systems, discard their ambitions to obtain nuclear weapons, and reject NATO membership in exchange for mutual security guarantees. Unfortunately, an official Ukrainian signature on a peace agreement document is not worth the paper it is printed. Hence, trust must be verified by neutral parties (32 countries [most notably China and India)] that voted to abstain on a United Nation’s general assembly anti-Russian resolution that occurred 23 February 2023. The 141 countries (who are either biased, controlled, coerced) that voted in favor of the hegemonic crafted resolution have disqualified themselves as guarantors of Ukraine’s security. A cease fire armistice between the Russian Federation and Ukraine (like the one between North and South Korea) would not be acceptable because a frozen conflict would incrementally ratchet up to a boiling point. Thus, a peace agreement treaty must stop hostilities once and for all. Worldwide sane rational people do NOT want to go through this traumatic experience ever again. On an additional note, I believe a border wall/fence must be constructed on the Russian Federation/Ukrainian border (just like the wall/fence that Poland and Lithuania built against Belarus) in order to prevent infiltration of hostile sabotage/reconnaissance group operations. In conclusion, a future peace agreement must ensure the security of Russian citizens in the Russian Federation.