"The Russian Federation is a bleeding." Democratic Ukraine and Putin Russia will not be able to exist at the same time - interview with Portnikov

In an interview with Radio NV, Portnikov told what methods the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin resorted to in order to achieve his main goal - to attach the former Soviet republics to the Russian Federation. Video of the day - has passed half a year of a large -scale war of Russia against Ukraine. During this time, new circumstances have emerged - explosions in the Crimea.

We remember that "no rocket will fall on the territory of Crimea", said Sergey Aksyonov, the head of the occupation regime of the Crimean peninsula. In your opinion, what changes this cotton? - It shows that the war that Russia began against Ukraine on February 24, 2022 can be unpredictable even for the aggressor.

Obviously, when these hostilities were started in Moscow, they hoped absolutely for another: that in three days the Ukrainian capital would be captured, a puppet government will be created, which recognizes that Russia has the right to Crimea, recognizes the independence of the so -called "Donetsk, Luhansk folk people Republics ”perhaps recognizes other territorial claims of Moscow to some Novorossiya there… And all that Putin will leave from Ukraine will be part of some“ union state ”of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

Also temporarily, because we understand that such a "union state" is a way to unite all those territories into one, the Russian Federation. -Sergey Rachmanin, a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security and Defense, said that the Americans do not provide us with ATACMS shells, which can beat 300 kilometers, because they believe that Putin can still provoke Putin. Crimea seems to be sacred for Putin, for the Kremlin, for its regime.

Medvedev threatened that there would be an apocalypse if something began to happen in Crimea. Do you think Crimea is really so sacred, given what we see in the last two weeks? - I have never argued that all these Russian political inventions should be perceived as something serious. When necessary, Crimea was sacred when needed, may not be sacred. The main purpose of Crimea is to be a bridgehead for hostilities against Ukraine, to destabilize the situation in the Black Sea basin.

Therefore, it is so important that arsenals in Crimea could not be used by Russia in its further war against Ukraine. Does this change significantly the course of fighting? If it was a war for a separate specific small territory, it would be changed if it was a war for Crimea or for the Donbas. But it is said that the war conducted by Russia is a war whose ultimate goal is the destruction of Ukraine and its disappearance from the political map of the world.