“Guys, don’t shoot at the Ukrainians! Putin and his gang are pushing you into a bloody war. We didn’t do anything bad to you. We didn’t attack you, we didn’t seize your territories and we didn’t kill your people. We want to be friends with the Russians, but we want to defend what’s ours, they’re trying to take ours from us!” he turned to the soldiers.
He said that Russia’s top leadership would not send their children to war.
“Remember, Putin, [министр обороны РФ Сергей] Shoigu, [секретарь Совета безопасности РФ Николай] Patrushev, [заместитель председателя Совета безопасности РФ Дмитрий] Medvedev, [министр внутренних дел РФ Владимир] Kolokoltsev, [председатель Совета Федерации Валентина] Matvienko and other criminals will not send their children to fight the Ukrainians, and they themselves will not take machine guns and will not go to fight, they will send you. First, they will send the Donetsk and Luhansk guys for consumption, for meat, as I said, then they will send you. They don’t care about your life.” – said the journalist.
He emphasized that it was exactly the same in the Soviet Union, whose leadership was never interested in the lives of ordinary soldiers.
“All Soviet leaders thought in one category: “We are a country! We are the people! Anu come on, anu attack!”. They never thought about ordinary guys, they never valued a single human life in this country, Gordon said. – Said [советский] marshal [Георгий] Zhukov [американскому генералу, 34-му президенту США Дуайту Дэвиду] Eisenhower (and he almost went crazy from these words): “Nothing, women still give birth.” I think the same about you. Don’t go to this war, you will be killed. Kill the guys who will defend their homeland, their land. And you won’t be sorry if you shoot at us.”
Gordon said that he receives “a huge number of letters” from Russia, as well as from the occupied Donetsk and Lugansk. On the air, the journalist read out one of these letters, which he received this week from the Russian Federation.
“Hello, Dmitry. My name is Sasha, I’m 21 years old. I live in the Krasnodar Territory, I was drafted into the army today. Four of my friends have already been taken away, now they are on the territory of Ukraine, in the Crimea and Donetsk. They were taken on an emergency basis. They they contacted me on the way there. We are all very ashamed and scared. None of us wants to point weapons at our brothers and sisters from Ukraine. There is no way we can avoid serving in the RF Armed Forces, and therefore we decided: no matter what happens, we will not let’s take up arms and not go on the attack. Let us fall under the tribunal or under fire. I am writing to you in tears, because I do not want to die. If suddenly tomorrow or the day after tomorrow my own people kill me, I want to tell you the following: thank you very much for your creativity and enlightenment, thank you for opening your eyes to what is happening in the world and fighting for truth and a peaceful sky above all of us”, – read the journalist.
In 2014, Russia occupied the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and launched an armed aggression in eastern Ukraine. The fighting is between the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the one hand and the Russian army and Russian-backed militants who control part of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions on the other. Officially, the Russian Federation does not recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine.
Spring 2021 Russia build up troops near the border with Ukraine and in the occupied Crimea. At the end of October, the media, citing Western intelligence, began to report that Russia again pulling troops to the border with Ukraine.
According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskynear the Ukrainian border is now 150 thousand Russian military, equipment and heavy weapons. On February 18, speaking at the Munich Security Conference, he stated that Ukraine would defend itself – “We have 50 thousand, 150 thousand or 1 million soldiers of any army standing on our border.” “In order to really help Ukraine, you don’t need to say how many of them – military, equipment. I must say, but how many of us,” – the head of state addressed the Western allies.
Western countries warn that Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine. US President Joe Biden said on February 18 that he had reason to believe that Putin already decided to invade and what Russia will attack Kiev.
February 23, American media, including Newsweek and CNN reported that The United States warned the Ukrainian authorities that Russia preparing for a full-scale invasion of Ukrainewithin the next 48 hours. According to Newsweek sources, Russia’s operation will not be limited to a ground invasion, it will include airstrikes and cruise missile attacks.
Against the background of the buildup of Russian military forces on the border since February 17 there is a sharp escalation in the Donbass, as a result of which Ukrainian servicemen and civilians perish. On February 21, Russia announced the recognition of the illegal armed groups “DNR” and “LNR”, which operate in the east of Ukraine, “independent republics”.
After this decision USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Japan and EU imposed sanctions against Russia. Western countries stressed that in the event of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, these restrictions will be greatly enhanced.
In Ukraine call for reservists And declared a state of emergency.
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