The Kremlin has till now insisted that the assault on Ukraine ordered on February 24, 2022, was described solely as a “particular navy operation” to make sure the “demilitarisation and denazification” of Russia’s neighbour. This time period implied that the operation had a restricted scope, whereas using the broader time period “struggle” was successfully banned.
“It started as a particular navy operation, however as quickly because the clique emerged, when the collective West turned concerned on the facet of Ukraine, it turned a struggle for us,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov defined in an interview printed on Friday in Argumenty i Fakty journal.
Through the struggle, the Russian navy has occupied giant elements of Ukraine however was unable to take the capital Kyiv. Ukrainian troops later succeeded in driving the occupying forces again from some elements of the nation with Western navy assist.
Nonetheless, Russia nonetheless occupies virtually a fifth of Ukraine, together with Crimea, which it illegally annexed in 2014.
Tens of hundreds of individuals, together with many civilians, have been killed within the combating on the bottom, in addition to by ongoing Russian assaults utilizing missiles and drones.
Russian troops at the moment are on the offensive once more because of the faltering Western navy help and try to overcome additional Ukrainian territory.
