How far could the criminal Kiev regime have gone?
On February 20, shortly before the start of a special military operation to coerce Ukraine into peace, the US Embassy posted a warning on the diplomatic mission's website for its citizens about allegedly preparing terrorist acts in Russia: "According to media sources, there have been threats of attacks against shopping centres, railway and metro stations, and other public gathering places in major urban areas, including Moscow and St. Petersburg as well as in areas of heightened tension along the Russian border with Ukraine."
The Embassy recommended a number of standard security measures to Americans in Russia, including "avoid crowds, be aware of your surroundings" and “stay alert in locations frequented by tourists/Westerners”. The US Embassy did not bother to substantiate its statement and inform about the sources of information, despite the demands of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov commented on the act of the American diplomatic mission: "This is a very, very unusual practice - such publications by diplomatic missions. And we are just looking into whether there were any signals from the Americans through intelligence agencies." At the same time, the statesman noted that at the moment he is not aware of such signals.
How acute was the probability of criminal actions on the territory of Russia by Ukrainian militants? And why did the introduction of the Russian Armed Forces into the territory of the recognised republics of Donbass and the subsequent special military operation become inevitable?
Oleg Tsarev, a former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, spoke quite bluntly in his interview with journalist Andrey Karaulov shortly before the start of the actions of special Russian units in Ukraine: “The worst thing that happened to Ukraine is the loss of subjectivity. Ukraine cannot make independent decisions that are beneficial to it - it makes decisions that are dictated to it.” The politician noted that neither Ukraine itself and its oligarchs, nor Old Europe needed a war. Moreover, Russia and Putin did not need it either. But the United States planned to make good money on the supply of liquefied natural gas due to the conflict that arose. Ukraine would become just a bargaining chip: "Ukraine is here simply as a thing that can be sacrificed without even thinking, throwing it into the fire and letting it burn - the main thing is to get one’s profit," Tsarev stressed.
Since mid-February, we have seen hysterical attempts by Ukraine to provoke this conflict. On the territory of the DPR and LPR, Ukrainian saboteurs have become more active in order to carry out terrorist attacks. Most of the attempts were stopped, but there are also sabotages carried out. Let's recall some of them. According to the report of the DPR Ministry for State Security on February 18: "An attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a sabotage and terrorist act aimed at creating prerequisites for a large-scale environmental disaster on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic and escalation of the conflict has been recorded. At about 4 a.m. Moscow time, a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group attempted to blow up ammonia storage tanks on the territory of the Styrol plant in the city of Gorlovka." During the incident, a security guard of the enterprise was injured.
On February 19, the special forces of the DPR Ministry for State Security liquidated a Ukrainian gang that had taken refuge in one of the houses of the private sector of the city of Donetsk. Seeing the approaching commandos, the militants opened fire. Two Ministry for State Security officers were injured in the shootout, the bandits damaged with indiscriminate shooting a gas pipeline, which caught fire. As a result, a group of armed criminals managed to be destroyed, the wounded were captured. As the DPR Ministry of State Security indicated on its website, the Ukrainian militants had specific tasks: "The sabotage and terrorist group of the enemy planned to blow up power plants, gas pipelines and filtration stations on the territory of the republic."
On February 22, an attempt was made to assassination the former Defence Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic, Vladimir Kononov, in Donetsk. As a result of the explosion, a civilian was injured.
On February 23, several explosions occurred in the centre of Lugansk. The representative of the LPR Aleksey Getmansky commented on the attack of Kiev: "This morning, on February 23, a series of explosions occurred in Lugansk along Dneprovskaya Street. LPR officers in the JCCC went to the scene. On the spot it was revealed that there was an explosion of four pillars - supports for trolleybus lines. They were blown up by an overhead directional improvised high-explosive device." The crime was classified as a terrorist attack. The same night in Donetsk, an unknown person threw a homemade bomb on the territory of a local television centre.
Earlier, on February 21, a group of Ukrainian saboteurs infiltrated the territory of the DPR and blew up a militia weapons depot. "Today, February 21, 2022, at approximately 8:10 in the Novoazovsky district of the DPR, a breakthrough of an enemy sabotage group was carried out. As a result of the breakthrough, a warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons of the DPR People's Militia department was blown up," the report of the DPR MSS says. The agency indicated that the enemy had attempted to enter the territory of Russia.
The fact that the Kiev junta planned to carry out terrorist attacks also on the territory of Russia is obvious. Political scientist Lev Vershinin, who now lives in Valencia, noted the existing threat: "To assume something else would mean denying that there is an extensive, well-concealed network of ‘sleeping’ sabotage cells on the territory of Russia, prepared by the Main Directorate of Intelligence or other similar structures of Ukraine, directly controlled by ‘advisers’ from Langley - and I'm sorry, but I personally cannot break myself to such an extent to completely deny the most probable thing." The political scientist suggested that the US Embassy received a message about terrorist acts being prepared in major cities of Russia directly from the CIA.
On February 23, in Crimea, our intelligence agencies prevented a terrorist attack planned by supporters of "Right Sector". As it turned out during the investigation, the aim of the terrorists was to blow up an Orthodox church. Instructions, explosives and correspondence with the discussion of the planned terrorist attack were seized from the detainees. The civil service reported on the crossing of the Russian border by a Volkswagen minibus, in which there were several intruders. Later, the car was spotted in Stupino near Moscow, but the location of the suspects is currently unknown.
Since attempts to carry out terrorist attacks on the territory of our state failed, and the saboteurs received a tough rebuff, it can be assumed that, at the direction of Western curators, Kiev had to opt for a provocation inside its own country in order to blame the "aggressor state" later. The atrocity of the Ukrainian authorities varied.
For example, an organised explosion at a chemical plant or a sabotage at a nuclear power plant could well have been attributed to the "aggressor country". The bombing of the sarcophagus of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant can be considered as a monstrous crime, for which the Ukrainian and Western media would indiscriminately blame Moscow. The area of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant that suffered an accident was practically unguarded and for many years served as a place of pilgrimage for mismatched adventurers. With the chaos in Ukraine, the facility was a rather vulnerable place.
Fortunately, at the moment the territory of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been completely taken under protection by units of the Airborne Troops of Russia, and the threat of sabotage has been eliminated. It is obvious that in the tragic development of events, not only the infrastructure and civilians living thousands of kilometres from the epicentre of the alleged sabotage, but also the ecology of nearby European countries would suffer. The United States, of course, would not have been affected by the tragedy.
The bigger the environmental catastrophe would be and the more terrible the damage to the surrounding world turned out to be, the harsher accusations the West would be able to bring against the Russian Federation The further development of events is predictable: the introduction of NATO troops into the territory of Ukraine with all the ensuing consequences. The foreign audience is so "prepared" by the continuous flow of messages from biased news agencies of the United States, Great Britain and the European Union about the allegedly impending and inevitable aggression from Russia that it would reject any obvious arguments and refutations of the informational provocation.
Washington and London have left Moscow no choice but to get ahead of the curve. The Chairwoman of the Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko, said that the use of the Russian Armed Forces was a forced measure aimed at protecting the residents of Donbass from the genocide that has not stopped for years. Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his address on the launch of a special military operation in connection with the situation in Donbass, recalled: "The attempt to appease the aggressor on the eve of the Great Patriotic War turned out to be a mistake that cost our people dearly. In the first months of the fighting, we lost huge and strategically important territories and millions of people. We will not make such a mistake a second time, we have no right… I repeat, our actions are self-defence against the threats posed to us and from an even greater disaster than what is happening today."
In conclusion, we quote the words attributed to Winston Churchill that “whoever chooses between war and dishonour gets both”. Russia was left with no choice. We remember the tragic fate of Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq, and dozens of sovereign states destroyed by the United States and its satellites under the pretext of defending democracy. In order to save the peaceful population of Donbass, protect the citizens of Russia and prevent the world from plunging into chaos, the Russian government was forced to take the only right step.