The invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops began on February 24, 2022 - and war has been
raging there ever since.
The many arms deliveries from Western
countries to Ukraine since then have only prolonged
this conflict - despite all assurances to the contrary.
What this means for the people in Ukraine, who are still holding out in their home country
despite all the suffering, is reported below by a Ukrainian who is directly affected.
It also confirms the assessments of high-ranking military
officers, such as former General Harald Kujat,
the former Inspector General and thus the
highest-ranking officer in the German armed forces.
In his position as Chairman of NATO's Military Committee,
he was also NATO's highest-ranking officer.
He said in an interview back in March 2023:
In the Istanbul negotiations, Russia had
apparently agreed to withdraw its armed forces to
the level of February 23, 2022... but according
to reliable information, the then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
intervened in Kiev on April 9 last
year and prevented a signing.
And in a recent interview from November 2023, former General Kujat reports
that weapons systems cannot compensate for Ukraine's personnel losses.
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers would have fallen or
been so badly wounded that they could no longer be deployed.
The Ukrainian army is currently in an extremely critical condition.
Now listen to the fundamentally important questions of this Ukrainian resident,
which coincide in a surprising way with the statements of retired General Kujat,
the former top soldier of both the German Bundeswehr and NATO.
He said in an interview in March 2023:
Perhaps one day the question will be asked who did not want to prevent this war.
Almost not a day goes by without reports of some kind of
meeting to support Ukraine against Russia's aggression.
The main tenor is:
Solidarity with Ukraine is still strong and both financial and military
aid will continue to be provided, even if ever larger sections of the
population are increasingly questioning the purpose of this aid.
After all, there is no progress on the battlefield
because Ukraine still lacks the ammunition
and, even more so, the capable soldiers to be able
to use this ammunition properly.
Ukraine's much-publicized so-called summer offensive
was in fact not a real offensive, but at best a small
advance in a few insignificant places, and even this
advance has now come to a complete standstill.
According to many experts, Russia now has
the advantage in this war of attrition.
Russia simply has far more resources, both in terms
of military technology and personnel.
To make up for the losses at the front, more and more men of military age are
being drafted in Ukraine, now also civilians
without any connection to the military, students,
even the mentally or chronically ill are not spared.
The economy is increasingly collapsing and the infrastructure throughout
the country is being destroyed more and more by the war.
An interview with Ukrainian MP David Arachamiya
from November 24 is interesting in this context 2023.
David Arachamiya is the parliamentary group leader of the ruling party Servants of the People.
The head of this party is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
David Arachamiya is therefore one of the President's closest associates.
The most important insight to emerge from this interview:
The war could have ended as early as April 2022 -
just 2 months after it broke out - if only Ukraine
had agreed to Russia's demand to remain neutral
and not join the NATO alliance.
According to Arachamiya, Putin would have been prepared to withdraw
his troops behind the border on February 24, 2022.
Ukrainian President Zelenskiy still tended
to agree to this demand at the time.
Even after the atrocities of Butscha, Zelenskiy still said on April
5, 2022 that opportunities for negotiations should still be sought.
In the first half of April 2022, however, former
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Kiev.
Arachamiya remembers that Johnson said at
the time that he had no confidence in the Russians.
Johnson was able to convince the Ukrainian leadership that
Russia was not ready for a prolonged war and that Ukraine
could defeat the Russians on the battlefield with Western
help and recapture the Donbass and Crimea.
Let's just fight - Johnson is said to have literally
said that at the time, according to Arachamiya.
According to media reports, Ukraine and Russia were conducting peace negotiations at the time and were
actually close to reaching an agreement at the end of March.
The peace agreement should have been signed in Istanbul at the time.
However, this did not happen because the
Ukrainian side broke off negotiations after
Johnson's visit and actually decided to simply
fight and win on the battlefield.
The Ukrainians have now had to bear the consequences of
this decision for 1.5 years with the greatest hardship.
And the victims are, as always, the ordinary people who lose
their loved ones, their homes, their health, often their lives, etc.
2 questions are allowed in this context:
1. do the so-called supporters in the West really
have Ukraine's best interests at heart when they - like
Boris Johnson - encourage Ukraine to engage in more and more
hostilities with their arms supplies?
Or are they rather achieving their own goals at
the expense of Ukrainian soldiers, the entire Ukrainian
population and the Ukrainian economy, so that once
again profit is made from wars and crises?
2. whose interests are really served by those in power in Ukraine
who like to call themselves servants of the people?
Wouldn't Ukraine have been much better served if a peace treaty had actually been signed
at the time, according to which Ukraine would have committed itself to neutrality
and thus remained a link between East (Russia, China, etc.) and West, as it has
always been due to its geographical location and history?
Independent courts and independent media
that shed light on the true background and do
not shy away from asking critical questions
are needed to clarify these issues.
The above information must also be disseminated urgently so that a rethink takes place in Europe and Ukraine and those responsible are duly held to account.