Russian President Vladimir Putin. Archive photoSIMFEROPOL, Feb. 28 State Duma deputy from the Crimean region Mikhail Sheremet said that Russian President Vladimir Putin, having launched a special military operation to demilitarize Ukraine, was a day ahead of the Ukrainian army's invasion of the Donbass republics.
"According to the reliable information received, if our president was a day late with the military operation, then the Ukrainian army would go on the attack. She has already begun to carry out artillery preparation and, with the supervision and support of NATO, she was going to finish off the people's republics of Donbass", Sheremet told RIA Novosti.
In addition, according to him, there are no guarantees that Ukraine has not started developing nuclear weapons, since all the necessary infrastructure on the Ukrainian side has been preserved from Soviet times. «Nuclear weapons in the hands of a nationalist and terrorist state could lead to a world catastrophe,» the deputy said. Sheremet stressed that the Russian president had taken the right steps by launching a military operation, the ultimate goal of which is to protect the interests and the entire multinational people of Russia, eliminate threats and establish speedy peace in the neighboring state. «We need to unite and complete what our heroic grandfathers did not finish. Unfortunately, our dear and close Ukraine no longer exists, it is incurably ill, becoming an abode and a progressive hotbed of the fascist plague,» the deputy said.
Disarm and defuse: demilitarization of UkraineRussian President Vladimir Putin announced early in the morning of February 24 that he had decided to conduct a special military operation to demilitarize Ukraine. In a televised address to fellow citizens, he said that the circumstances “require decisive and immediate action,” as the Donbass republics turned to Moscow for help. According to the Russian leader, all responsibility for the bloodshed will be on the conscience of the Kiev regime. Later, the Russian Ministry of Defense emphasized that the Russian military does not carry out any missile, air or artillery strikes on Ukrainian cities: military infrastructure is disabled by high-precision weapons. Nikita Stoma