luchtschip schreef op 28 mei 2022 13:43:
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‘We’ll grind them down in the end’ Sources tell Meduza that the Kremlin is considering another assault on Kyiv and planning victory in Ukraine by the fall
Despite failing to capture Kyiv at the outset of the war, the Kremlin is reportedly considering a second assault on Ukraine’s capital, as Russian troops appear to be on the verge of seizing the entire Donbas region. Sources tell Meduza that advances in the east and expectations that Moscow can win a war of attrition against Kyiv and its Western allies have revived hopes in the Putin administration that a full-scale victory is possible in Ukraine before the end of the year.
Two sources close to the Kremlin and another source inside the Putin administration itself told Meduza that Russia’s leadership has “minimum” and “maximum” thresholds in Ukraine for declaring a successful and completed “special military operation.”
The bare minimum needed to declare victory is the complete capture of the Donbas region, which Russian troops have nearly accomplished already. According to recent estimates, the Ukrainian government remains in control of only five percent of the Luhansk region and less than half of the Donetsk region.
The Kremlin’s maximum goal remains the seizure of Kyiv. Moscow’s initial assault on the Ukrainian capital collapsed back in March, after which Russian troops withdrew (leaving behind evidence of numerous and shocking war crimes). From the very start of the invasion, military experts assessed Russia’s attempt to capture the city as elusive, given the insufficient military force deployed against Kyiv.
But Meduza’s sources in the Kremlin say Russia’s top leadership hasn’t abandoned this goal. “We’ll grind them [the Ukrainians] down in the end. The whole thing will probably be over by the fall,” one source told Meduza.
Others told Meduza that this confidence has spread not only in the Kremlin but in the leadership of United Russia, the country’s ruling political party. General Council Secretary Andrey Turchak regularly visits the Donbas and even raised the Russian flag over the administration building in a small town of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region after Russian troops captured it.
The Kremlin’s domestic policy czar and new point man in Donetsk and Luhansk, Sergey Kiriyenko, has also visited the Donbas. Sources told Meduza that he is still preparing referendums that will give Russia technical grounds to annex the occupied territories. Kiriyenko publicly describes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a “battle with Nazism and fascism.”
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