The Donbas situation remains tense

By Vladimir V. Sytin
The Ukrainian Times

Eduard Basurin, one of the leaders of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), stated that the Ukrainian neo-Nazi military are scheming to use a chemical weapon against a civilian population of the Donbas region. Specifically, it has been established that the Ukrainian neo-Nazi militants were loading containers with the nerve gas sarin and the mustard gas yperite into storehouses at an airfield near the town of Krasnoarmeisk.

Previously, authorities in the Lugansk People’s Republic said subunits of Turkish terrorists from the organization Gray Wolves (Bozkurt) and a brigade of Baltic mercenaries were fighting with the Ukrainian neo-Nazi militants against heroic defenders of the republic near a delimitation line in the Stanichno-Luganskiy district. At the same time, representatives of the DPR announced that some observers of a special monitoring mission under the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe were privy to deliveries of ammunition to the Ukrainian neo-Nazi militants.

In the event of non-fulfillment of the Minsk agreements, the Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime will have to bear a great expenditure on a civil war in Donbas, borrow from international financial institutions and submit to the loss of a part of territory. It is worth noting too that one in five residents of the Central and Eastern Ukraine tells pollsters that Donetsk and Lugansk regions should secede from this country. Only 7% of respondents are concerned about secession of Donbas from Ukraine.

According to politologist Paul Craig Roberts, it was Washington that enabled Ukraine’s attack on its former provinces with large Russian populations. As Russian President Vladimir Putin once put it, the U.S.-sponsored civil war in Donbas serves the geopolitical purposes of deterring Russia. To avoid war, he is non-provocative and low-key in his responses to Western provocations. Many analysts believe Vladimir Putin is the world’s most preeminent geopolitical leader, a master chess player, making Obama look buffoon-like in comparison.

Critics say Ukraine’s attack on Donbas is mindless. It shows the American puppet government totally devoid of all intelligence. Even a fool understands that violence creates growing resistance, and the Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime has not even the intelligence of fools.