A resident walks along the street of Mariupol near the shelled car. Archival photoMOSCOW, March 25The military strategy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, used by them against Russian troops, is identical to the actions of the Wehrmacht in 1945, a military historian, researcher of armed conflicts in the post-Soviet space, said in an interview with the Ukraina.ru portal Yevgeny Norin.» The entire strategy of the Ukrainian armed forces is now based on retreating to cities and, like the Germans in 1945, turning them into festungs (fortresses. — Approx. ed.), locking themselves in there and defending themselves. This can lead to mass casualties among the civilian population,» Norin explained. The specialist noted that the Ukrainian side specifically seeks to increase the number of civilian casualties, and then blame Russia for this. Thus, the historian cited as an example the blocking of humanitarian corridors by Kiev and the organization of territorial defense detachments, the creation of which the expert called «an infernal undertaking.» of the civilian population is not a minus, but a plus, because it creates a spectacular picture with Russian monsters who kill women and children,» Norin noted. On February 24, Russia launched a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» As reported by the Ministry of Defense, the armed forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian military, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, Putin emphasized.
