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Anonymous ID: 17170f March 5, 2022, 6:50 p.m. No.15794246   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4293 >>4414 >>4467

5 Mar, 2022 23:28

 

US draft plans for government-in-exile, guerrilla war in Ukraine – reports

 

Officials in Washington expect Russia to face fierce and bloody ‘insurgency’ in Ukraine

 

The US and its allies are quietly working on “contingency plans” in case Russian forces succeed in their operation in Ukraine and force the current government into exile, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.

 

The prospect of the Russian troops seizing the Ukrainian capital of Kiev has sparked “a flurry of planning” at the US State Department, the media outlet has reported. Washington allegedly expects the weapons America and its allies are currently pumping into Ukraine to be used during the protracted “insurgency” war they expect to follow. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is given a role of “the pivotal force” rallying Ukrainians to continue fighting Russia, according to reports.

 

“We’re doing contingency planning now for every possibility,” a US administration official told the Washington Post, adding that one such possibility involves Zelensky establishing a government-in-exile in Poland.

 

On Friday, NBC News reported that a group of House conservatives had met with Robert O’Brien, former US president Donald Trump’s national security adviser, who urged them to support Zelensky’s government regardless of where it relocated.

 

“We should recognize them as a government in exile, in Warsaw or in London, and we ought to refer to Ukraine as occupied Ukraine,” O'Brien told NBC after the meeting. Lawmakers in Washington believe there is “substantial value” in Zelensky remaining in Ukraine, including a “political advantage,” an “optics advantage” and a “morale advantage,” but not in case his life is “in jeopardy,” NBC reported.

 

Another part of the plan is to support what the US calls a future “pro-independence” insurgency, including through supplying it with arms. Two members of the House Intelligence Committee – Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill) and Mike Turner (R-Ohio) – are currently pushing for bipartisan legislation requiring the Biden administration to develop an insurgency support strategy, according to NBC.

 

“We have to make sure that they are equipped with lethal and non-lethal assistance, as well as intelligence, to fight off the Russians,” Krishnamoorthi told NBC News on Friday.

 

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), a former Marine Corps infantry officer who served in Iraq and visited Ukraine last December, advocates supplying Ukrainians with small arms, ammunition, and explosives to equip them for guerrilla fights. “Think about the kinds of things that would be used by saboteurs as opposed to an army repelling a frontal invasion,” he has told Washington Post.

 

The Biden administration has not made any official comments on the alleged plans to support a potential insurgency in Ukraine. According to the Washington Post, US and NATO officials are wary of openly supporting such ideas out of fear of being drawn into direct confrontation with Moscow.

 

On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin already compared massive sanctions imposed by the western nations against Russia over its attack on Ukraine to a “declaration of war.” So far, the Russian military action launched on February 24 has sparked fierce condemnation in the West and saw the US and its allies slapping Moscow with unprecedented sanctions targeting Russia’s finances, banking sector, aviation, and space industry.

 

Moscow maintains its invasion of Ukraine is aimed at protecting the people of the two Donbass republics it recently recognized, as well as at “demilitarizing” and “denazifying” Ukraine. Kiev insists the attack was unprovoked, maintaining it had no plans to retake the break-away Donetsk and Lugansk regions by force.

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/551330-ukraine-government-exile-insurgency-plan/

Anonymous ID: 17170f March 5, 2022, 6:53 p.m. No.15794265   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4293 >>4414 >>4467

5 Mar, 2022 17:30

 

Kiev putting Ukrainian ‘statehood’ at risk, Putin warns

 

The Ukrainian government would be the only side to blame for this, Russia’s president said

 

Kiev’s actions are putting Ukraine’s own existence at risk and it must understand it can’t simply carry on with the same policies, President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday. Moscow has previously accused Kiev of condoning the activity of neo-Nazis in the state, and of attacking people in the Donbass republics.

 

“If they go on with what they are doing, they will put the future of Ukraine’s statehood into question,” Putin said during a meeting with female representatives of the Russian civil aviation industry. He added that if this happens, Ukrainian authorities will “only have themselves to blame.”

 

Earlier on Saturday, the Russian president also expressed concern over Ukraine’s nuclear ambitions. The Soviet legacy has provided Kiev with capabilities to produce both nuclear weapons and nuclear-capable missiles, he said, adding that Western nations might help Kiev in achieving these goals.

 

“Now, [the Ukrainian government] are talking about potential nuclear status. That means they seek nuclear arms. We simply cannot ignore those things, particularly in light of how the West treats Russia,” Putin said.

 

He also warned that “Russia’s fate would change the very second” Ukraine acquires nuclear weapons.

 

In such a scenario, Russia’s adversaries would have Moscow “at nuclear gunpoint,” adding that this threat was “absolutely real.”

 

Putin said Ukraine’s admission to NATO would pose a threat to Crimea, which joined Russia in 2014 following a referendum which Kiev does not recognize, still considering Crimea an occupied part of Ukrainian territory.

 

Pointing out that NATO would have to come to Kiev’s aid if it was a member, Putin said this could lead to war between Russia and the entire military bloc. He also accused the West of turning a blind eye to the suffering of people in the Donbass region after eight years of conflict in eastern Ukraine.

 

Moscow launched its attack on Ukraine on February 24, saying its goal was the “demilitarization” and “denazification” of the country with the aim of protecting the Donbass republics and Russia’s national security interests.

 

The operation followed months of tense talks between Moscow, Washington and NATO about security in Europe. Russia accused western nations of ignoring its key security concerns and national interests as the US and its allies rejected an idea of barring Ukraine from joining NATO.

 

Western nations have condemned the Russian military action in Ukraine and slapped Moscow with unprecedented economic sanctions, targeting financial systems as well as aviation and the space industry. Seven Russian banks have been cut off from SWIFT while many foreign companies, ranging from luxury clothes brands to IKEA, announced they would cease their operations in Russia.

 

https://www.rt.com/russia/551323-putin-kiev-ukraine-statehood-risk/