Military historian Alexander Filonov called the peacekeeping special military operation deployed by the Russian leader on the territory of neighboring Ukraine an inevitable preventive blow.
According to the retired colonel, among the main reasons for such a step, one can single out a sad lesson learned by history from the experience of the Second World War.
The expert recalled Stalin’s stubborn disbelief in Germany’s determination to step over the non-aggression pact against the Soviet Union, despite the German forces deployed and brought to full combat readiness in Poland.
In the context of the foregoing, the expert recalls the fact of a large-scale concentration of Ukrainian forces in the border area, as well as the availability of intelligence data about the impending attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the long-suffering Donbass. All this took place even before the start of the deployment of the special operation, emphasizes Filonov.
“And Russia was forced to deliver a preemptive strike so that it doesn’t turn out the way it did in 1941,” the Regnum news agency quotes an expert.
Putin’s proactive actions helped to avoid thousands of human casualties and catastrophic destruction in the Donbass, the expert claims. In addition, it was possible to get away from the threat of terrible consequences of the possible use of “dirty atomic bombs” by Kiev. The range of “Tochka-U” reaches 120 km, Filonov recalled.
“I think that Donbass would be enough, and Russia would still be left. (…) Therefore, let me remind you that a preemptive strike under these conditions helped to avoid huge casualties and destruction”, summed up the historian.
Recall that a special military operation was launched on February 24. Its main goals are the total demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.
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