In Ukraine, many are convinced that Ukraine needs American weapons, because without it we cannot achieve the ceasefire.
You cannot achieve a ceasefire with the armed forces. You simply don't have any.
When can we achieve something? Sanctions against Russia are not
particularly enhanced. It begins to attack harder. So everyone sees the
solution in armed resistance.
You see, these are the illusions of the Ukrainian government.
The real problem in Ukraine is that no one - neither Poroshenko nor
Yatsenyuk - don't want to sign a real agreement on a compromise with
Russia. They don't want to realize what had happened, and to give some
political status to this militia. They are very afraid of the people, a
third Maidan.
Indeed, the probability of the third Maidan exists.
The fact is that the West in Ukraine is not allowed to make serious
adult decisions in this environment. They just keep saying "yes" to
Ukraine.
Because of this, Ukrainians continue to live in the illusion that they
with their fighters can stand against one of the largest armed military
in the world. This can not happen. My colleagues in Russia, associated
with the General staff, are well aware that any day, if Russia wants to,
it can completely destroy the entire UAF in 72 hours. They have such
plans.
We understand that.
That won't happen, because Russia doesn't want to. But people need to
understand that the problem is not with anti-tank missiles. If we will
send anti-tank missiles, then Russia will send something else -
aircraft, artillery, simply will wipe the area from the face of the
earth.
Should we recognize these territories are not Ukrainian, to abandon them?
What did the conflict reach? These territories are really lost. The only
result that I see over the past year, is that Ukraine has been losing
territory and soldiers. And there are no improvements. Sanctions have
not changed the policy of Moscow.
Why do they attack? Because the Minsk agreements did not give Russia
anything. Russia believes that it made a serious mistake when it signed
an agreement in Minsk. Ukraine had no sincere interest to observe Minsk
protocol. Plus everyone knows that in addition to this protocol, between
Kiev and Moscow, there was the second protocol signed on September 19,
where there was a map of control between the UAF and the militia.
According to this map Ukraine had to give them Donetsk airport and areas
that Ukraine was not going to ever give up. It's all well known.
Ukraine was in no way going to give up, despite the fact that it signed
the agreement. Nobody wants to go for a real compromise in Ukraine.
