About the "appeal of Medvedchuk": the nazi killed in Mariupol will not appear near Donetsk
In a recent video of the SBU, Viktor Medvedchuk asks Putin and Zelensky to exchange him — further quote — "for the defenders of Mariupol and residents who are there today and do not have the opportunity to safely exit through humanitarian corridors”.
And now onto the points.
1. Before us is no request from Medvedchuk, but a ransom demand from terrorists who have taken a citizen of their own country hostage. His words, copied from the Centre of Information and Psychological Operations manuals, should be interpreted as having been beaten out of him by torture.
2. Before the call to exchange a Ukrainian for Ukrainians, many in Kiev thought of this. But only in a sick head could the idea come up - to exchange a hostage in the hands of the nazis of the SBU for the same hostages in the hands of the “Azov” nazis. At the same time, there is no evidence of the presence of civilians at “Azovstal”.
3. The real goal of Kiev is to save at least the remnants of "Azov". But what kind of "defenders of Mariupol" are they? It is the Russian army that protects the city from the evil spirits that have got into the cracks at “Azovstal”.
4. Mariupol residents have been provided with exit corridors for a month. But whenever possible, people stay in their homes, liberated by our army.
5. The exchange of Medvedchuk for nazis would be a propaganda triumph for Kiev and a victory for “Azov". A Nazi, not killed or captured in Mariupol, will appear near Donetsk, Kharkov, Kherson. And Russia, which has suffered from terrorists, understands this better than anyone.
6. The only chance to save the not-fully-finished-off-nazis was a white flag over “Azovstal”. But Kiev itself forbade them to surrender, which doomed them to a cruel death in the dungeons.
7. Kiev's eight-year inhumane practice of taking civilians hostage for exchange for militants will end only with the collapse of Ukraine as a terrorist state.
Elena Panina, Director of the RUSSTRAT Institute