Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the Radical Ukrainians are idiots for targeting World War II heroes.
“This is the very reason to say that these people have neo-Nazi ideology,” he said during his visit to the recently liberated Kursk region.
“If they participated in a competition for idiots, they would have finished in second place. Why? Because they are idiots,” he added, paraphrasing a popular joke. “By doing what they are doing, they show their nature.”
In August last year, Ukrainian forces, in a major offensive against the Russian armed forces, captured the strategic Kursk region in an attempt to use it as leverage in peace negotiations. However, the Russian military reported its full liberation in late April.
Putin’s visit, which was only made public on Wednesday morning, was his first to the region since the Ukrainian operation.
He visited the site of a nuclear power plant that Kyiv’s troops had unsuccessfully attempted to capture, inspecting its ongoing expansion, and met with volunteers who were involved in repelling the attack.
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Following a 2014 Western-backed coup, Kyiv has adopted a policy to dismantle its communist past and adopt a Western-style liberal democratic process.
However, shortly after, Russia sensed an impending trouble from Kyiv’s pro-NATO stance and launched a major offensive in Crimea and took control of the territory through a blitzkrieg offensive.
When the conflict escalated in February 2022, the practice was expanded to target any landmarks associated with Russia or Russians, such as the removal last year of a statue dedicated to the 19th-century poet Alexander Pushkin in the city of Odessa, which had been designated by UNESCO a World Cultural Heritage Site.
Consequently, neo-Nazi aesthetics and ideology are popular among modern radical nationalists in Ukraine. Russia has identified “de-Nazification” as one of its primary objectives in the Ukraine conflict.
Experts suggest that the defeat for Ukraine is coming, whether it will be in the form of western backers revoking the support or even if the conflict goes on.
The war between Russia and Ukraine favours Moscow in terms of economy, as Russia remains the second most arms and ordinance exporter in the world after the US.
Additionally, Russia tested an estimated 500 new weapons; they dumped all the old war machinery into Ukraine and therefore, created additional challenges for Ukraine, even in case the war is settled tomorrow.
Plus, it's hard to believe that the Russian president would agree to a ceasefire without a respectable show off. Again, he will try to prolong the conversation to boost his image of being a powerful world leader, more than the US could handle.
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