Putin vs Ukraine
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27th September,2022
lets start,
What was Putin's first objective?
The main goal of the Russian leader was to invade Ukraine, overthrow its government, and put an end to Ukraine's aspirations to join NATO, a Western defensive alliance. He gave up trying to take over the Ukrainian capital Kyiv after a month of failures and shifted his attention to the east and south of the country.
He declared his intention to "demilitarise and de-Nazify Ukraine" when he began the invasion on February 24. His stated goal was to defend those he claimed had been the targets of the Ukrainian government's eight years of intimidation and genocide.
Assuring Ukraine's neutrality was shortly added as a new goal.
While head of foreign intelligence Sergei Naryshkin spoke about "Russia's future and its future place," foreign minister Sergei Lavrov discussed liberating Ukraine from despotism.
Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine who was duly elected, declared that "the enemy has designated me as target number one; my family as target number two." Russian military allegedly made two attempts to breach the presidential compound, according to his adviser.
Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, makes a speech on April 12, 2022, as he travels to the Vostochny cosmodrome near the city of Tsiolkovsky, 180 kilometres north of Blagoveschensk.
Putin has described Russia's invasion as a "noble" cause and refrained from using the terms "invasion" or "war." Moscow has continued to refer to the largest conflict in Europe since 1945 as a "special military operation."
The allegations of Nazis and genocide in Ukraine are wholly baseless, but they are a part of a story that Russia has been reiterating for years. Dmytro Kuleba, the foreign minister of Ukraine, remarked, "It's absurd, sometimes not even they can understand what they are referring to."
Denazification is necessarily also de-Ukrainization, erasing the modern state, as stated in an opinion piece by the state-run news outlet Ria Novosti.
And the world community has now accused Russia of committing war crimes. A few nations, such as the US and Canada, go even further and label it genocide.
The Russian leader's comments, "It is not our aim to take the Ukrainian territory; we do not seek to impose anything on anyone," ring hollow after so much devastation.
Map displaying the regions of Ukraine that Russia presently controls
How has Putin's agenda evolved?
After a month of the invasion, Russia withdrew from Kyiv and stated that its primary objective was the "liberation of Donbas," which is a general term for the eastern Ukrainian provinces of Luhansk and Donetsk. In a conflict that started in 2014, Russian proxy forces had already taken control of more than a third of this region; now, Russia sought to annex the entire region.
The first phase of the invasion, which the Kremlin defined as significantly lowering Ukraine's military capabilities, was said to have "largely accomplished" its objectives, according to the Kremlin. However, it was evident from Russia's retreat that it had reduced its aspirations.
According to Andrei Kortunov, president of the Russian International, "Putin needs a triumph."
He needs to achieve something, at the very least, that he can celebrate with his supporters at home.
Officials in Russia are currently concentrating on taking control of the two major eastern areas and building a land corridor along the southern coast that runs east from Crimea to the Russian border. They have asserted control over Kherson, in the south, and a top Russian general has stated that they seek to annex land farther to the west along the Black Sea coast, all the way to Odesa and beyond.
Maj Gen Rustam Minnekayev stated, "Control over the south of Ukraine is another way out to Transnistria," alluding to a breakaway region of Moldova where Russia has some 1,500 troops.
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