What is Russia preparing for the coming months? While Moscow’s military has racked up losses in recent weeks despite an anecdotal recapture of Soledar in early 2023 after failing to take Kyiv early in what the Kremlin simply calls a “special military operation,” a counterattack is expected. .
“Dnieper, Odessa, Kyiv”
A guest on our antenna Monday night, Pyotr Tolstoy, deputy chairman of the Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, confirmed that Russia should strike again at the end of winter.
“For me it is necessary before spring and not only the territories that the Russian army left to the Ukrainians,” he said, citing targets such as “Dnieper, Odessa, Kyiv and other important cities.”
After presenting these medium-term objectives, the Russian politician, also close to Vladimir Putin, recalled again, in perfect French, the reasons for this Russian intervention in Ukraine.
“(Putin) is right, we are not here to win the territories, but to win all of Ukraine, to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. We are hitting their energy infrastructure and we will continue ”, he details.
“Don’t you see what happened before”
During this same passage on the BFMTV antenna, Piotr Tolstoy recalled that, according to his point of view, Ukraine is responsible for this war due to its repeated attacks against pro-Russian territories since 2014.
“I must remind you that for eight years before the special operation, the Ukrainians bombed Donetsk and its pro-Russian region, for eight years they devastated towns and villages. It was not the Russians who started this war, it is the Ukrainians. Unfortunately today you do not see what happened before,” he insists.
The leader concluded by assuring that “this war will end with our victory” but that “the more you (Western countries, editor’s note) help Ukraine, the longer the war will be and the more victims we will have.” But not for you.”
Source: BFM TV
