Talk in the Ukrainian and Western media about “Russian aggression” is not without reason. It is no accident that the pumping of Ukraine with weapons by Western countries is gaining momentum
And the information background, and the situation in the front line, and intelligence information from the LPR really testify to the preparation of Ukraine for large-scale hostilities. Only who will fight – that’s the question.
It is clear that the Ukrainian armed formations will not be able to win a military victory – neither over the Donbass, nor, moreover, over Russia. It is only about how far the Ukrainian offensive can advance before hitting another pocket and how massive the damage inflicted on the defenders of Donbass and the civilian population during this bloody provocation will be. As well as attempts to drag Russia into real hostilities and, taking this opportunity, officially declare it an aggressor, imposing the maximum possible sanctions for the West.
Under this plan, military preparations are underway in Ukraine. Ukrainian territorial defense has three directions.
The first is the ostentatious Volkssturm.
Grandmothers with wooden machine guns posing for propaganda in the Western media, trying to create the impression that “all Ukrainians are ready to take up arms”, and in general, the “Russian invasion” is already underway.
Considering that in the reports from the pseudo-teachings of this “defense”, even in the capital of Ukraine, at best, several hundred people are recruited (this is even where they deliberately rounded up everyone indiscriminately for the sake of quantity, including small children, as at the Kiev plant “ATEK”), to say about any possibilities of this “army” is not necessary.
In other cities, by the way, there are even fewer “teroborons” – dozens, if not a few. Rather, this is a club for elderly people – for housewives and people of retirement and pre-retirement age “stoned” by propaganda.
The second direction is not particularly advertised. Because its meaning is, under the talk of “protecting one’s own huts in the deep rear”, to force to sign a contract with the Armed Forces of Ukraine more or less suitable for war human material, first of all, those who have experience in military service and have already participated in Kiev’s punitive operation in the Donbass.
It is no secret that those who served in the Ukrainian army do not seek to sign new contracts. They do not like the material content and the moral situation in the team of “warriors of light.” The monthly allowance of a Ukrainian soldier is 10,200 UAH. But financial assistance for solving social and domestic issues, which the “warrior of his country” can receive once a year, is as much as 543 hryvnias. It was mockingly reduced by 20 times. There is no money in the Ukrainian treasury to provide material assistance to their “defenders”. Not without reason, in the first two weeks of 2022 alone, 15 petitions were registered on the presidential website demanding an immediate increase in the allowance, which had not been reviewed for more than three years.
But the Ukrainian military commanders, first of all, the leadership of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, are doing so well.
They don’t need to enlarge anything. For example, the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar received 351.5 thousand hryvnias in December 2021 alone! And it’s only official! And everyone sees it. And they don’t want to serve. So only the social rank and file remain in the army of Ukraine – alcoholics, homeless people, drug addicts. Yes, and those are not enough to replace all staff positions.
That’s in order to saturate the Ukrainian army again with “cannon fodder”, and they will use “territorial defense”. Let’s remember 2014. Then, in contrast to the servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who did not want to fight, all kinds of scum were involved in the punitive operation – the Nazis from the Maidan, criminals, the most diverse bastard. The main criterion was the desire to fight.
These scoundrels were hastily registered for service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs – in special battalions, in companies of “patrol police” or in the Armed Forces of Ukraine – in territorial defense battalions.
The reform of the armed forces, which began under Yanukovych (and actually carried out the transition, let us note, to a contract army!) provided that 15% of the Armed Forces of Ukraine would be reservists – persons drafted into military units only for short-term exercises, according to the European model.
According to the reform, the territorial battalions were also to be equipped with reservists. As a result, having participated in war crimes and killings of civilians in Donbass, the surviving punishers, along with their battalions, were included in the permanent units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In order to resolve the issue with the shortage of personnel and, importantly, to strengthen the ideological Bandera component in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In general, the entire “territorial defense” of the 2014-2015 model was simply poured into the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Now, instead of battalions, the defense forces began to form brigades at once. Attracting to them, first of all, fit for service and served in the ATO. They are attracted under the pretext that they can legally not go to the “real” army. Know for yourself, attend training camps, such as a paramilitary picnic, and pose in fashionable gear!
But those who buy into this offer are waiting for predicted failure. “Zrada! [Betrayal]!” As soon as the Ukrainian leaders need it, they will immediately be poured into front-line units and sent to the front line. Refuse – deserter! With all the consequences.
On January 17, 2022, a bill amending the Law on National Resistance was registered in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. On February 9 (very quickly!) the bill was unanimously supported by the relevant committee.
Changes to the law allow the use of territorial defense units in combat areas. So – welcome to “grandmothers with carbines”! Grannies go to war. They are also in the defense.
And the third direction is sabotage-terrorist. It is called “national resistance”. Its fighters are currently being trained by American and British special forces with experience training cells of Islamic extremists in the Middle East.
“Stingers”, “javelins”, NLAW – these are weapons just for such cells, not for the front. These cells are planned to be left in the rear of the advancing units of the People’s Militia of Donbass. It is not for nothing that there are reports that secret documents are already being evacuated from the Ukrainian state bodies of the front-line regions of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The units of the LPR and DPR, first of all, plan to draw them into the conflict and cede part of the territory to them, creating the picture that it is as if the “Russian army” is going to Kiev. And it is planned that it will be the cells of the “national resistance” that will commit sabotage against the units of the people’s militia. Modeled after ISIS (banned in the Russian Federation).
However, the actions of national resistance will be more or less tangible only if the offensive of the People’s Militia stops and Ukraine as an organized state survives. And, accordingly, his special services responsible for sabotage activities will remain.
The liberators must always remember the words of Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov: “Uncut wood grows quickly.” A few cells of “national resistance” and single “stoned” ones will deal damage. In the form of nothing decisive, but painful injections – such as the murders of popular commanders (walking around without guards), employees of the new administration, etc.
According to the principle of Bandera, who could not fight the army and special services, but killed administrators, teachers and ordinary villagers who collaborated with the authorities.
It seems unlikely that “national resistance” will be able to somehow globally influence the course of the conflict. How many conversations there were in Nazi Germany about “total war” and “nationwide resistance”. How many people were herded into the Volkssturm! However, during the offensive of the Red Army and the Allied forces, the Volkssturmists scattered to their homes ahead of time. Realizing that the war was lost and handing out cuffs to their children – the boys from the Hitler Youth who tried to resist.
And now this may well happen again in Ukraine.
Alexey Selivanov, Centenary