Landing with the participation of military personnel of the Pskov division of the Russian Airborne Forces. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 16. Erich Wad, a retired brigadier general of the German army and adviser to ex-head of Germany Angela Merkel, warned Ukraine against underestimating the power of the Russian armed forces, writes Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten. The expert made such a statement in the light of a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. «The Russians are too strong: they have superiority on the ground and in the air,» Vada quoted the publication as saying. He also expressed confidence that official Kyiv would not be able to return the Donbass by military means. It is Russia, Vad noted, that determines the development of events in the east of Ukraine. 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, as of March 25, the Russian Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage of the special operation — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was the liberation of Donbass.According to the Ministry of Defense, the facts of the use of hospitals, residential buildings, churches, kindergartens and health camps, as well as schools and other civilian facilities by the armed formations of Ukraine to shelter militants and deploy weapons indicate that the Kyiv authorities confident in their impunity for war crimes committed against their own citizens, and the lives of civilians are absolutely not important for Kyiv. Russian forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population.
