Bärendennis schrieb am 21.04.2024 18:49:
Sequoiadendron giganteum schrieb am 21.04.2024 17:57:
Russland hat genauso nur dem Duobas geholfen, weil dieser von der Ukraine angegriffen wurde.
Leider völllig verkehrt.
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/russischer-geheimdienstler-zur-ostukraine-den-ausloeser-zum-krieg-habe-ich-gedrueckt-1.2231494
Igor Girkin, russischer Geheimdienstoberst und zeitweiliger "Verteidigungsminister" der "Volksrepublik Donezk" brüstet sich mit seiner Rolle in der Ukraine-Krise. Moskau habe den Krieg geschürt, sagt er freimütig - mit seiner Hilfe.
Genau.
https://www.ibidem.eu/de/russia-s-overlooked-invasion-9783838218038.html
"Chapter five has shown that the initial crossing of the threshold between peace and armed conflict in the Donbas, entailing the conflict’s first battle-related casualty, was the direct result of an incursion by irregular Russian forces. Igor Girkin and his group of armed men had assisted the Russian state in the takeover of Crimea before they moved to the Donbas and turned the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk area into the conflict’s first battlefield. Their incursion was financed and supervised by Russian oligarch and Kremlin ally Konstantin Malofeyev and Crimean “Prime Minister” Sergey Aksyonov who, according to Russian law, was a Russian state official. Igor Girkin and many members of his group returned to Russia after their engagement in the Donbas. Neither they nor their Russian sponsors were punished by the Russian state for their actions. In the context of this evidence, it is almost certain that Igor Girkin’s group acted as an informal organ of the Russian state and carried out an incursion into Ukrainian territory on the Kremlin’s behalf. The actions of Girkin’s group almost certainly depended on the Kremlin’s knowledge and approval. It is of secondary importance whether this knowledge and approval came in the shape of a formal order or in the shape of implicit signals. Either way, the Kremlin’s willingness to let the armed paramilitaries that supported its annexation of Crimea attack mainland Ukraine was more disruptive to the normal course of events than the fact that Girkin and his men were happy to continue fighting. It was also more disruptive than the fact that Girkin’s group received a certain degree of local support."
