An officer of the National Guard in liberated Melitopol. Archive photoBAKU, May 4.The special military operation launched by Russia on February 24 in Ukraine made it possible to avoid larger destruction and losses, the well-known Turkish historian Mehmet Perincek told RIA Novosti. The other day, at the invitation of the Russian Ministry of Defense, he visited the area of the special operation. to state with confidence: if Russia had not launched a special operation in Ukraine, a more serious armed conflict would have occurred, there would have been many times more destruction and casualties among the civilian population of Ukrainian cities. Kyiv wanted to use these areas as a springboard against Russia. In this case, not only Ukrainian, but also many Russian cities located near the border with Ukraine. They would turn into ruins,” the historian said. He said that he visited, in particular, Mariupol, Berdyansk, Donetsk and Melitopol. “Local residents tell terrible things about the actions of neo-Nazis, about the «Azovites» (against whom criminal cases have been initiated in Russia), who used them as human shields. The ists bombed the houses of civilians in order to put the blame on the Russians, to blame the Russian army for the murder of children. Many people say that strikes on Mariupol were carried out even before Russian soldiers entered the city,» Perincek noted.»That was the last straw.» What ignited the civil war in UkraineAccording to him, the information in Western propaganda is very different from the real picture in Ukraine, in the DPR and LPR. «Today, life in Mariupol is gradually recovering. Children, the elderly have the opportunity to walk calmly through the streets of the city. The most important thing is that I could understand is that almost all residents of Donbass do not want to connect their future with Kyiv, while Western media write the opposite,» the historian emphasized. In this regard, he recalled the events of the recent past in Iran and Iraq. «Talking about some kind of weapon mass destruction in these countries turned out to be nothing more than a falsification. Today, almost the same thing is happening in Ukraine. While in Zaporozhye, we visited a local nuclear power plant. If what the Western media write about supposedly there is powerful radiation, were true «, then we would have died long ago. The station was operating normally. The Russian forces did not even change the local management of the facility,» Perincek said.
«Safari on Russians» turns out badly for its participants
