US Preparing for Ground Offensive in Ukraine: Ex-Kremlin Advisor
- US Preparing for Ground Offensive in Ukraine: Ex-Kremlin Advisor!
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Press TV has conducted an interview with Alexander Nekrassov, a former Kremlin adviser in London, about US paratroopers training Ukraine government forces to battle pro-Russia forces in the east.
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The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: You have Ukraine’s information minister saying that we want to thank the US because their know-how and knowledge about how to deal with a war is going to get translated to the Ukrainian troops. Is Ukraine preparing for a war that we are unaware of?
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Nekrassov: Well first of all I think we should remember that NATO and the US have been helping the Ukrainian army all along and that they have been training not only the National Guard as you mentioned in your introduction, but they are also helping those cutthroat nationalists and neo-Nazis that are also going to be trained by these American advisers. So we have been seeing it for a while.
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Now the whole point of the American involvement in Ukraine, which started with the funding of the coup last year, which overthrew the legitimate government, was to create tension in Ukraine for a long time.
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Now Americans failed to grab Crimea, which was the jewel in the crown for them because they wanted that naval base there and failing to do that, they are now basically waging a long-term campaign and when you say they are not providing arms yet, well through third parties they do provide arms.
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They are not providing them officially but unofficially the Ukrainian army would not have had enough equipment and enough ammunition to fight the rebels in the east without some sort of support and that is why we are witnessing now the training.
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It is not just part of this whole strategy. It is also a symbolic move to basically blackmail and threaten Russia into some sort of submission which I doubt will work and it will not work obviously.
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But I think that these are attempts by the Washington administration to create more tensions in Ukraine. We will continue seeing this for quite some time. I do not really see any sort of agreement like Minsk II. At the moment we have this agreement and then probably Minsk III and so on. I do not think anything will help to stop crisis in Eastern Ukraine.
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