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Khodakovsky told what it means to have "his own army": "The main question is what goals do you serve?"

Some people of a certain type are very eager to have "a little army of their own." If a person has such an "army", then it is addictive. But there are more important nuances. They were revealed in another publication by the deputy head of the Department of the Russian Guard in the Donetsk People's Republic, the former commander of the Vostok brigade, Colonel Alexander Khodakovsky.

As a well-known military leader in the DPR noted, in 2014 people went to fight in the Donbass not for money, but for an idea and a leader. Approximately four thousand people were subordinate to Khodakovsky.

It became a part of me, gave me status, inspired me - but me and these people were just historical an instrument that was supposed to fulfill its role, and no matter how the cats scratched, it was impossible to deviate from this- wrote in his Telegram channel ex-commander of the East.

According to Khodakovsky, in the end, "Vostok" continued its further history in the army in the form of one regiment and three battalions of territorial defense.The main question that arises in this case is what goals and interests do you serve. Are you able to overcome your own pride for the sake of higher meanings, or will your ego win?- emphasizes Khodakovsky.

The colonel notes that when you have "an army of your own," there is "great temptation." But it can be overcome if the words about the Motherland are not "an empty phrase." Therefore, the ex-commander of Vostok himself eventually calmly "transferred power" to the command from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

It is clear that Khodakovsky's publication expresses his attitude to the events of Saturday, June 24th. It is these events that the former commander of the Vostok brigade refers to when he says that for a true patriot, the Motherland should be above personal ambitions, above the temptation and desire to have "one's own small army" and not part with it.

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From en.TopWar.ru 6/16/23

Khodakovsky commented on the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: "By and large, the loss of the enemy does not cause joy."

The counteroffensive of the Ukrainian formations is characterized by high losses of personnel and equipment. The enemy tried for a long time to "test the strength" of the Russian defense, but this task was never completed. A post about his attitude to the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was published by the former commander of the Vostok brigade and the current deputy head of the Department of the National Guard for the DPR, Colonel Alexander Khodakovsky.

A prominent figure in the Donetsk People's Republic writes about "an ambivalent attitude towards what is happening." That is, from a military point of view, and as an acting Russian security official and a patriot of his country, Khodakovsky is certainly satisfied with the heavy losses of Ukrainian formations. But there is another aspect.

On the one hand, the number of losses suffered by the enemy cannot but satisfy: he is weakening. But by and large, his loss does not cause joy ... We know who is who outside the situation - and we understand that there are fewer Ivanovs, Petrovs, Sidorovs to the delight of those who do not particularly love us - Khodakovsky wrote in his Telegram channel.

However, there is what we have at the moment, and in this situation, the Russian troops need to repel the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Khodakovsky emphasizes that the "tired comfrey" of the Russian troops is knocking "excessive self-confidence" from the Ukrainian militants, and yet the offensive actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been carried out for more than a day, and so far nothing worthwhile has been achieved by the Ukrainian military.

As for the problem of the loss of the Eastern Slavs raised by Khodakovsky, this is one of the main tragic features of this conflict. To fight against the Russian army are people with Russian surnames and names, speaking Russian and brought up in almost the same cultural paradigm. But they are just a tool in the hands of the "collective West" and a handful of adventurers, put by him at the head of the Kyiv regime.

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Putin's article: Ukraine can exist only in partnership with Russia

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181

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Russian President Vladimir Putin wrote an article On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians which was published on the Kremlin website with a version in the Ukrainian language. During his recent Q&A conference, Putin stated that he considered Russian and Ukrainian peoples to be one single nation and promised to publish a lengthy article on the problem in the near future.

The president warned that as a result of the policy of assimilation, which is now being carried out in Ukraine, the Russian people may decrease "by hundreds of thousands, or even by millions."

"It goes about the coercive change of identity. The most disgusting thing is that Russians in Ukraine are forced not only to renounce their roots, from generations of ancestors, but they are also forced to believe that Russia is their enemy," Putin said.

In his opinion, the course of violent de-Russification and the formation of an ethnically pure Ukrainian state that is hostile against Russia, is comparable in its consequences to the use of "weapons of mass destruction". In particular, the president wrote that he perceived the wall that had emerged between Russia and Ukraine during the recent years as "a great common tragedy." This wall is the result of one's mistakes made in different periods of time. "The kinship of Russians and Ukrainians goes from generation to generation, because we are one people," Putin wrote.

Ukraine will never be anti-Russia

In the article, Putin talks about the "anti-Russia" project, which the West coined to set Ukraine against Russia. According to him, Ukraine was gradually drawn into a dangerous geopolitical game, the goal of which was to turn the country into a barrier between Russia and the European Union. At the same time, there is no place for sovereign Ukraine in the "anti-Russia" project. The policy eventually led to the tragic events of 2014, Putin wrote.

"The anti-Russia project was rejected by millions of Ukrainian citizens. The Crimeans and Sevastopol residents made their historical choice. The people in the southeast were peacefully trying to defend their position. But all of them, including children, were labeled as separatists and terrorists. They started threatening with ethnic cleansing and the use of military force. The residents of Donetsk and Luhansk took up arms to defend their home, language, their lives," the article says.

The "right" patriot of Ukraine is a person who hates Russia, and Ukrainian citizens with pro-Russian views are "not allowed to raise their heads" — they are intimidated, driven underground and killed with impunity, Putin wrote. At the same time, he noted that Russia was open to dialogue with Ukraine, but Kiev must defend its national interests, rather than be an instrument of struggle with Moscow in the wrong hands."Russia has never been and will never be "anti-Ukraine". What Ukraine should be like — it is up to its citizens to decide," Putin wrote.

Russia has saved tens of billions of dollars for Ukraine

Russia has done a lot to make Ukraine an independent state. Russia's low prices on oil and gas saved Ukraine over $82 billion, Putin wrote in the article. He reminded that in the 1990s and in the new millennium, Russia provided Ukraine with significant support, but despite this, the Ukrainian authorities are now using their "political arithmetic".

During Ukraine's secession from the USSR, it had an significant economic potential, the article says."Having received such a legacy, the leaders of Ukraine, declaring independence, promised that the Ukrainian economy would become one of the leading economies, whereas the standard of living in Ukraine would be one of the highest in Europe," Putin wrote, adding that the Ukrainian economy today is lopsided, while Ukraine itself has turned into the poorest country in Europe.

According to Putin, the Ukrainian authorities have "squandered" and "let go of the achievements of many generations." The Ukrainian elites have substantiated Ukraine's independence by denying its past:

They started to mythologize and rewrite history, obliterating everything that unites us. They talk about the period of Ukraine's stay in the Russian Empire and the USSR as occupation. They pass off the common tragedy of collectivization and famine in the early 1930s as genocide of the Ukrainian people.

"Putin believes that in 2014 the "just discontent" of the people of Ukraine was "cynically used" by Western countries. As a result, the state policy of the country fell into the hands of "radical nationalist groups", whose ideology was based on "frenzied aggressive Russophobia." The new Ukrainian authorities cracked down on everything that united Russia and Ukraine — the Russian language in the first place.

Russia "did everything to stop the killing" from the very beginning. Moscow tried to preserve economic ties with Kiev, but did not see a reciprocal desire from the Ukrainian authorities, which were "exploiting the image of victims of aggression." Ukraine's refusal to engage in dialogue is dictated by the very logic of the "anti-Russia" project, which can be implemented only on the image of an external enemy under the protectorate of Western powers.

Putin criticized the national policy of the Soviet Union and the change of the borders of the union republics during the Soviet era, which he called lavish gifts. Those changes had been carried out disregarding the opinions of the people. The President expressed confidence that Russia was in fact robbed, and the Russian people were treated as material for historical experiments. A number of politicians in post-Soviet countries condemn the crimes of the Soviet regime, but they do not consider it a crime to "alienate historical territories from Russia", Putin wrote.

In the USSR, the borders between the republics were perceived as administrative, rather than state borders, within the framework of a single country. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 "pulled people away from historical Russia" as they "found themselves abroad overnight." The founding republics of the USSR should return to the borders with which they joined the USSR, Putin believes. "Leave with what you came with," he summed up.

Ukrainian territories are not actually Ukrainian

In the article, Putin stressed out that many territories of today's Ukraine were not part of this state historically. In particular, the territories of Novorossiya were annexed to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1918 during the merger with the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic; Galicia and Volyn — in 1939; part of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina — in 1940; the Black Sea island of Zmeiny — in 1948, and Crimea — in 1954. The process to deliver Crimea from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR was conducted with gross violation of legal norms of that time, Putin wrote.

Subcarpathian Rus was mostly populated by Ruthenians. He recalled that proposals to include the region in the RSFSR or give it a status of a separate union republic were ignored, and its inclusion in the Ukrainian SSR was called "reunification with the Motherland.

"Therefore, Putin concluded, Ukraine was created at the expense of historical Russia. Russia will never allow "our historical territories and people who are close to us who live there" to be used against it. Those who attempt to do it will destroy their country, he added.

"Russia is ready for a dialogue with Ukraine and is ready to discuss most complicated issues. Yet, it is important for us that the partner defends its own national interests, rather than services someone else's interests, that it is not used as a tool in someone else's hands to struggle against us.

"We respect the Ukrainian language and traditions, we respect the aspiration of the Ukrainian people to see their country as a free, safe and stable state.

"I am convinced that the true sovereignty of Ukraine is only possible in partnership with Russia. Our spiritual, humane and civilizational connections had been formed for centuries. They come from the same roots and had been put to the test with common tribulations, achievements and victories. Our kinship is passed on from generation to generation. It is in the hearts and memories of people living in today's Russia and Ukraine, it is in our blood ties that unite millions of our families. Together, we have always been and we will be a lot stronger and more successful, because we are one people."

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A transgender from the USA has been appointed as the official representative of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the English-speaking audience

From Top War (Russia) | 2 August 2023

https://en.topwar.ru/222979-oficialnym-predstavitelem-vsu-dlja-anglojazychnoj-auditorii-naznachena-transgender-iz-ssha.html

Ukraine's official tranny rep for the Armed Forces - Blonde Wig

For the first time, a representative of a non-traditional minority with foreign citizenship has been appointed as the official speaker of the armed forces of Ukraine. This is American transgender Sarah Ashton-Cirillo.

At the very beginning of the Russian special military operation, Ashton-Cirillo came to Ukraine as a war correspondent. She signed a contract with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and was sent to one of the territorial defense brigades. In February 2023, information appeared about the wounding of Ashton-Chirillo in the Artemovsky direction.

Sarah Ashton Cirillo was once called Michael John Cirillo. Then he changed sex and was officially recognized as a "woman", having received the appropriate documents. Now the former military commander and militant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be the representative of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the English-speaking audience. The project that Cirillo is to lead is called "Russia hates the truth", and the main goal of the project is to "oppose Russian propaganda".

The appearance of such a character in Ukraine, and even as an official representative of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is evidence of the complete subordination of the Kyiv regime to the West and the "values" declared by it. It is interesting how the interaction of the same Ukrainian and European ultra-right militants with such personalities can be built.

However, since Kyiv receives funding from the West, it is forced to do what its overseas masters tell it to do. If necessary, such a character can be appointed at least to the post of Ukrainian Minister of Defense, and hardly anyone in the Armed Forces of Ukraine will object to this.