Re: Mis Ukrainas toimub? vol.2
Postitatud: 28 Aug, 2014 10:12
Üks Moskva kommentaator on jaganud senised relvastatud sündmused kolme etappi.
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.be/201 ... sians.htmlIn the first, which lasted from April 12 to April 20, there were several groups: “petty criminal groups” which hoped to avoid punishment by the Ukrainian authorities, Russian spetsnaz, GRU and FSB officers, ideologically committed Russian nationalists who had earlier served in various wars and in the occupation of Crimea, and “the group least significant militarily but most significant politically” a small number of local people.
In the second when began from the middle of May and lasted into the summer, Mitrokhin says, the military needs of the pro-Russian forces changed because the Ukrainian army recovered its military capacity and was overwhelming the ability of the Donetsk and Luhansk “republics” to oppose its advance.
To help these entities survive, Moscow organized “channels for the identification, recruitment and transfer of potential fighters for ‘the Russian world,’” primarily by means of attracting to the colors Russian veterans of the Chechen, Georgian and Afghan wars “who were in financially or morally difficult straits.”
Joining them were “politicized ‘volunteers,’” and together these two groups, who came primarily between May and July, were able to slow the advance of the Ukrainian army. But as this flow dried up – summer vacations and the failure of the “republic” leaders to pay them on time had an impact -- and as the Ukrainian army gained the initiative, the situation became dire.
By early August, both Donetsk and Luhansk were at risk of falling, and that forced Moscow to act. On August 7, “the situation changed in essential ways,” Mitrokhin says. The Muscovites who had headed the two “republics” were dismissed and replaced by locals, even as the Russian military expanded its actions in the region.