Russia (bbabo.net), - Igor Korotchenko, editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine, spoke about the main tasks of the Russian special military operation in Donbass and the means used in its course.
- The task of the next few hours of Russia's military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine is to deprive its General Staff of the possibility of centralized command and control of troops. Further - the disabling of the military airfield network, the destruction of the positions of air defense systems and operational-tactical missiles. Accordingly, the task of achieving complete air supremacy is being solved.
The logic of such actions is understandable, justified and absolutely clearly verified. Under these conditions, it is rather problematic to say that the Ukrainian army will be able to provide organized, stubborn and long-term resistance.
Now with regard to the means used by our military. During the military operation in Syria, they worked out the entire arsenal of conventional means of remote engagement of the enemy. They are now hitting. It can be assumed that Kalibr cruise missiles and Iskander-M operational-tactical systems were launched. Plus strike drones and other high-precision weapons. This excludes any negative effect on the civilian population and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. But it provides high-precision, I would say, surgical destruction, primarily of its military facilities. This is what concerns the original goals of the operation.
Then, obviously, if an appropriate decision is made, the Russian units will move forward in order to block and disarm the groups of Ukrainian troops. They will be asked to surrender their weapons and go home without any problems.
As for the final milestones, the completion of the operation, we cannot yet speak confidently about them. But from a political point of view, it is probably expedient to establish Russian military control over eastern and southeastern Ukraine with access to Transnistria. Whether the demarcation line will run along the Dnieper or go further west will be decided based on political and military expediency.
Zelensky today for Russia is nothing more than a simple citizen of Ukraine, and by no means its president. It is quite obvious that for Russia he is a war criminal with all the ensuing consequences for him. Perhaps in the next few hours Zelensky will be evacuated to one of the European capitals. Maybe to Warsaw, Vilnius or London. For us, he will now have a political status about the same as that of the fugitive Belarusian oppositionist Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
I think that NATO and the US will not get involved in a military adventure in Ukraine. This has already been clearly stated by the American President Biden, for whom the main priority in this direction is the security of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Additional contingents of troops are already being sent there. It is said that the American army will not fight for Ukraine. Our President in his statement sent a rather harsh message to those who would try to prevent the Russian military operation by force. Given the nuclear status of the Russian Federation, I think this signal is accepted everywhere. Nobody will flinch.
It is clear that rather tough economic, financial and political sanctions await us. But when deciding to carry out this operation, the Russian political leadership must have been preparing for them in advance, thinking about neutralizing the negative consequences for our economy.
We can say that a new geopolitical reality is coming, in fact, a new historical era. The task is to make Ukraine a neutral non-bloc denazified country, the guarantor of statehood of which will now be the Russian Federation. In the future, this may open a window for some kind of dialogue with the West, the development of new mechanisms for ensuring security in Europe and, in general, global strategic stability. Sooner or later, I think the West will have to come to terms with the new geopolitical reality and understand the irreversibility of these processes.
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