Russian winter instead of Russian spring

Fired by a residential building in Avdeevka, Donetsk region, February 1, 2017. Photo: Gleb Garanich / Reuters

The shelling of Avdeevka and Donetsk - it seems that this is the news from the winter before last, out of a misunderstanding, which fell into the 2017 information stream. The invention of Dmitry Peskov is “independent detachments”, which are entrusted with wine for escalation in the Donbass, the wording is so blurry that you can bring anyone to it - both pro -Russian separatists and Ukrainian volunteer battalions acting on their own, and the Ukrainian army (in the sense that Ukraine is a self -sustained state, and it also turns out to be a detachment, and it also works out Independent). The careless phrase of the Ukrainian general about the promotion of the Armed Forces “step by step” is picked up by the same sand: look, the Ukrainians themselves admitted that they were coming, that is, the aggressor is they. And the article Süddeutsche Zeitung, in which an anonymous source in the German government says that the Ukrainian side is interested in exacerbation, the Russian official press is happy to quote the third day.

Interesting observation of the journalist of the Russian “Life” Anastasia Kashevarova - she writes that the crew of federal television channels from Moscow were sent to Donetsk in advance, and innocently concludes that, obviously, Russian intelligence knew that Ukrainians would begin an offensive, but with the same success, the sending of journalists in the Donbass can be called that in Moscow it was known in advance about the attack of separatics - In the end, such knowledge is more accessible to Russia than plans for the Ukrainian army.

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