KuhSchubsKahn schrieb am 03.03.2024 01:12:
DrM schrieb am 03.03.2024 00:11:
Egal wessen Waffen sie benutzt, die Ukraine handelt in Selbstverteidigung.Nein, das tun sie seit 2014 nicht mehr.
"Den Auslöser zum Krieg habe ich gedrückt"
"In einem langen Interview mit der in Moskau erscheinenden nationalistischen Zeitung Sawtra (Morgen) berichtet der russische Geheimdienst-Oberst Igor Girkin ausführlich darüber, wie er seit Februar erst die Besetzung der Krim mitorganisiert und nach deren Anschluss an die Russische Föderation einen Krieg im Donbass vom Zaun gebrochen hat."
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/russischer-geheimdienstler-zur-ostukraine-den-ausloeser-zum-krieg-habe-ich-gedrueckt-1.2231494
Original-Interview:
https://zavtra.ru/blogs/kto-tyi-strelok
Bereits kurz nach der Unterzeichnung der Vereinbarung traten russlandtreue Kämpfer sowie russische Truppen zum Sturm auf Debalzewe an und eroberten den Ort drei Tage nach der offiziell verkündeten Waffenruhe, womit das Abkommen bereits gebrochen war.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsk_II
«Wir wussten, es geht in die Ukraine»
Das Geständnis eines verletzten russischen Panzerfahrers zeigt: Die Schlacht von Debalzewe wurde auf Befehl des Kremls von russischen Soldaten geführt. Die Separatisten sind nur Staffage.
https://www.nzz.ch/international/wir-wussten-es-geht-in-die-ukraine-ld.92835
Mark Galeotti: Putin’s Wars. From Chechnya to Ukraine. Osprey, 2022, ISBN 978-1-4728-4755-3, S. 188, https://books.google.de/books?id=yvRfEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT154:
In August 2014, the Russians deployed an estimated 3,500–6,500 troops into Ukraine, growing to a peak of some 10,000 by the end of the year. There had already been small detachments from the 2nd and 10th Spetsnaz Brigades, the 106th Guards Airborne Division and the 45th Guards Airborne Spetsnaz Regiment. Then, elements of the 9th and 18th Motor Rifle Brigades were deployed to prepare the ground. The first wave of regular combat forces saw the introduction of Battalion Tactical Groups (BTGs) drawn from fully ten manoeuvre units: the 17th, 18th, 21st and 33rd Motor Rifle Brigades, the 31st Guards Air Assault Brigade, the 2nd Spetsnaz Brigade, the 104th and 247th Air-Assault Regiments and the 137th and 331st Airborne Regiments. At this point, the age of so-called ‘hybrid war’, one in which disinformation, deniable political operations and other non-kinetic means are at least as important as the actual fighting on the battlefield, was virtually over. Instead this was looking much more like a conventional, even if undeclared, war in which both sides fielded mixes of regular forces and militias in sporadic, but brutal conflict.
Anna Arutunyan: Hybrid Warriors. Proxies, Freelancers and Moscow’s Struggle for Ukraine. Hurst & Company, 2022, ISBN 978-1-78738-795-9, S. 165–166, https://books.google.de/books?id=33KMEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT184:
On 21 August, Colonel Andrei Lysenko of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council announced that Ukrainian troops had captured two armored vehicles belonging to unit 74268 of the 76th Pskov Airborne Division just outside Luhansk. That same day, Ukrainian bloggers published photographs of the names and personal items of the crew, who were nowhere to be found. Among the belongings left behind were those of Ilya Maksimov. It wasn’t the first allegation that Russians were fighting in Ukraine, but it was the first piece of evidence of not just Russian nationals or Russian kit, but of regular, serving soldiers of the Russian armed forces. On 25 August, journalists in the Pskov region uncovered two fresh graves belonging to soldiers from the 76th Division, after a funeral attended by about 100 people the same day. At the cemetery, the journalists were approached by men in black and under threat of violence ordered to leave the city.
Und dass "Separatistenführer" Alexander Sachartschenko die Ankunft von 1.200 russischen Soldaten ankündigte, war sicher auch nur Zufall:
S. 168:
On 15 August, DPR leader Zakharchenko announced the “joyful news” that a substantial reinforcement had arrived from Russia, consisting of at least 150 armored vehicles, thirty tanks and, most important, 1,200 servicemen “who had undergone training in Russia.” Less than a week later, Ukraine’s Security Council would announce the capture of those Russian armed vehicles manned by Russian soldiers, including Ilya Maksimov. And on 25 August, Ukraine’s Security Service captured ten soldiers who were part of an airborne battalion dislocated to Rostov and then ordered to march into Ukraine along with a column of infantry fighting vehicles.