New phase of Ukraine war brings no obvious route to end fighting (2022-04-11). Arkivita el la originalo je 2022-06-07. Alirita 2022-07-05. “Russia’s current military activity appears to back up what are in effect reduced war aims: targeting the entire Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts claimed by the so-called separatist republics, both recognised by Vladimir Putin just before the war broke out.”.
New phase of Ukraine war brings no obvious route to end fighting (2022-04-11). Arkivita el la originalo je 2022-06-07. Alirita 2022-07-05. “Russia’s current military activity appears to back up what are in effect reduced war aims: targeting the entire Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts claimed by the so-called separatist republics, both recognised by Vladimir Putin just before the war broke out.”.
Toal, Gerard. (2017) Near Abroad : Putin, the West, and the contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus. ISBN 978-0-19-025331-8. OCLC965543300. “this does not mean that the Kremlin was behind all forms of protest against Euromaidan— this is clearly not the case— or that the Kremlin controlled the actions of all secessionist leaders, also clearly not so. Secessionist leaders and later rebel fighters had their own motivations. Having said that, there is considerable evidence to indicate that Russian state security structures worked in partnership with ostensibly private but functionally extended state networks of influence—oligarchic groups, veteran organizations, nationalist movements, biker gangs, and organized criminal networks— to encourage, support, and sustain separatist rebellion in eastern Ukraine from the very outset.”.
