The Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack in the Kursk region will reduce Ukraine, by Gevorg Mirzayan for VZGLYAD. 08.08.2024.
How to respond to the attack on the Kursk region? Minimize Ukraine's land border. Take control of historical Russian territories with significant economic and industrial potential.
"From this moment on, the SVO must acquire an openly extraterritorial character. This is no longer just an operation to return our official territories and punish the Nazis. It is possible and necessary to go to the lands of the still existing Ukraine. To Odessa, to Kharkov, to Dnepropetrovsk, to Nikolaev. To Kiev and further. There should be no restrictions in the sense of some recognized borders of the Ukrainian Reich. And now it is possible and necessary to talk about this openly, without embarrassment and diplomatic curtseys. The terrorist operation of the Banderites must remove any taboos from this topic."
This was the reaction of the Deputy Head of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev. His words were not meant to intimidate anyone, hint at anything, or push anyone to anything. No, this is a complete and absolute statement of fact. A reflection of the new realities of the SVO.
The purpose of the special military operation was initially to ensure Russia's security from a radical, hostile Ukraine. This same purpose remains today, but the methods for achieving it may be completely different.
Initially, during the time of Istanbul, the method was considered to be a change of regime in Kyiv. The removal of the most prominent and radical Russophobes from power, its denazification and the victory of those forces that are ready to live in peace or at least in cooperation with Moscow.
Yes, we already had the experience of Minsk, where we agreed on something, and then we were deceived. However, Moscow still tried to implement all possible peaceful methods of solving the problem before moving on to non-peaceful ones. In the end, Istanbul failed. And then the method became the final liberation of territories critically important for Russia in order to reduce the ability of the Kyiv regime to pose any threat to Moscow. As a result, Ukraine lost a significant part of its territories (which had access to the sea), and Russia acquired land access to Crimea.
The events in Kursk Oblast have shown that the Kiev regime, even in its current truncated form, poses a threat to Russia. That even without sufficient reserves, it is throwing them into the attack for a strategically senseless, but important from the point of view of PR and satisfying the Russophobic desires (of both the Ukrainian and Western leadership) operation in Kursk Oblast.
The hundreds-kilometer border between Russia and Ukraine will be under constant threat of invasion – and not necessarily by the Ukrainian army. The invaders could well be called something like the “Legion of Free Russia” (recognized in the Russian Federation as a terrorist organization), to whom Kyiv has only given shelter and, supposedly, is not responsible for their actions. Moreover, if you look at the map, the Kharkiv region cuts into Russian territory like a wedge – which means it is an ideal springboard for sabotage.
That is why Medvedev is right – we can go to Odessa, to Kharkov, to Dnepropetrovsk, to Nikolaev. That is, to put it simply, to cut Ukraine off from the sea, thereby depriving it of a significant part of its industrial potential. To minimize the land border due to the fact that most of the state border with the Kyiv regime will run along the Dnieper (or it will be a land section, say, Vinnytsia – Zhitomir, which is several times smaller than the current border). To take control of historical Russian territories that have significant economic and industrial potential. Well, and in general to shrink Ukraine to the borders of the current western and a piece of the central part of this country.
The attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Kursk region gives Russia all the international grounds for a similar territorial solution to the Ukrainian issue, although it will require much greater efforts.
Yes, a number of experts will be dissatisfied. They will say that this is not enough. They will say that we need to go further, all the way to Lvov. However, they will be told that, firstly, the Bandera hotbed should not be included in our composition, but, on the contrary, fenced off from it. Moscow will not be able to engage in a systematic digging out of Bandera heresy there now. The Soviet Union with its ideology could not do it, and Russia now, even without Banderaism, needs to make enormous efforts to integrate the already liberated territories.
In addition, Western Ukraine itself will not survive as an independent state. It will disintegrate, part of it will end up in Poland – and thus the division of Ukraine will be collective. And therefore, it will be much easier for the West to understand and accept it.
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