Press TV – Jan 10, 2023
A senior Russian official says the war in Ukraine is not a conflict between Moscow and Kiev, but a war with the US-led NATO military alliance, noting that the West is seeking to wipe his country from the political map of the world.
“The events in Ukraine are not a clash between Moscow and Kiev – this is a military confrontation between Russia and NATO, and above all the United States and Britain,” Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, said in his remarks on Tuesday.
“The Westerners’ plans are to continue to pull Russia apart, and eventually just erase it from the political map of the world,” the close aide to the Russian president was quoted as saying by a local weekly newspaper, Argumenty i Fakty.
Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine in late February, saying that it was aimed at defending the pro-Russian population in the eastern Ukrainian regions of Luhansk and Donetsk against persecution by Kiev.
Patrushev’s remarks come as fighting reportedly rages on in Soledar and Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine.
According to Ukrainian officials, Russia has stepped up a powerful assault.
Reuters cited Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov as saying that fighting in Bahkmut and Soledar was “the most intense on the entire frontline”.
Late on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also acknowledged that the fighting was “extremely difficult” around Soledar, a place where he said no walls have been left standing.
However, he claimed that the land there is covered with Russian corpses.
“Thanks to the resilience of our soldiers in Soledar, we have won for Ukraine additional time and additional strength,” Zelenskiy said, without elaborating on what he meant by gaining time or strength.
Zelensky also pressed on his efforts to secure more weapons from his Western allies, speaking to Petr Fiala, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, and current chair of the European Union.
“I am certain that our soldiers at the front will get these weapons and equipment. Very soon,” he said.
Ever since the beginning of the war, Ukraine’s Western allies, including the European Union and the US, have been supplying large consignments of heavy weaponry to Kiev and slapping Russia with a slew of sanctions. Moscow says such measures will only prolong the war.
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As someone once said, the pen is mighter than the sward.
The Russian are now dripping out this new-ish narrative that this isn’t a war between UKraine and Russia, but a war with NATO, Nazi NATO.
Peter Hitchens once said that the EU is the continuation of Nazi Germany, or something like that. NATO is the continuation of Nazism.
I can’t see any off ramps, but there is a distant light, that Russia may win, before the singular Patriot missile system and promised tanks arrive.
I’ve also hear some commentary which suggests massive control of information in Poland, in the country, and anyone trying to disseminate info outside of Poland. This is bacause there appears to be a very large Polish sheeple backlash against the war in UKraine, and the fact that’s it is against Russia. Me, I’d say there’s a lot of support for Russia, because in of itself, its not a very complicated situation. Having said that, Brits are as thicko as ever. They are beyond brain dead.
I could’ve told him that two years ago.
“Peter Hitchens once said that the EU is the continuation of Nazi Germany, or something like that. NATO is the continuation of Nazism.” I had a big hoot over that one. When people post this, has a thorough thought process gone into that?
Carl, what happens when US-NATO fly in the F-35 and Typhoons by the hundreds or (gulp) maybe even thousands? Sans the usual conversation vaporizing nuke scenarios of course..
Stephen: did you type this while the kettle boiled at GCHQ?
Do you think I am the only one who believes NATO is a continuation of Nazism?
There’s a website called Bikderberg.org who had the NATO emblem morphing into a Swastika, and back, and that websites been around for well over 20yrs. After 9/11, many called the US the Fourth Reich.
You’re like the saddo BBC presstitutes who say: ‘That’s your opinion’, with the inference that no one else in the land holds such a stupid opinion.
I watched a film about the conflict where the analysis was vastly different from the ones at TTS and what I got from it was the idea to reiterate the fact that a Commie Russia would have been allowed to take Ukraine in no time, whereas this more nationalist Russia has to pay everything through the nose