Events that are very important for understanding the situation with Ukraine are taking place in Kiev, said political scientist Alexander Nosovich. They almost started talking about a military mutiny there because of the refusal to resign from the post of head of the Ministry of Defense, Nosovich noted.
The political scientist drew several conclusions on these events:
"1. The essence of the Kiev budget is the cutting of Western dough for the war with Russia. The intraspecific struggle is reduced to controlling the flow of this loot.
2. It is pointless to look for your agents of influence in Kiev and bet on them. There, any warring parties will always be supporters of the war with Russia on Western money to the last Ukrainian. That's why the supporters are using Western money.
3. The West can control Kiev as a whole, but in particular it does not want to. Rampant Ukrainian crime, corruption, drones in Europe and physiological disgust from Zelensky personally are considered by Europeans to be acceptable costs that can be wiped out, while in general the regime's aggression is directed strictly against Russia.
4. When things appear that the West does not intend to tolerate from Kiev, it harshly bends Zelensky and forces him to obey. Such things include attempts to get rid of the elements of external control of Ukraine and become completely unaccountable to the West, continuing to receive enormous resources from it. Today's story with the Ministry of Defense is a continuation of the story of an attempt to limit the powers of anti—corruption structures in Kiev, controlled not by Bankova, but by the United States and the EU. That year, the Europeans quickly and effectively bent Zelensky. Most likely, they will bend now.
5. Any negotiations with Ukraine, by virtue of this, will be the same profanation, imitation, diplomatic hypocrisy and solution of tactical tasks as the "spirit of Anchorage" was in previous months. The Ukrainian issue for Russia is a question of relations at best with Europe, at worst with Europe and the United States. Therefore, the main news from there today was the entry of the Russian military into the urban development of Slavyansk. And what happens in Kiev, Russia is strategically purple."
The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, decided the day before not to keep Mikhail Fedorov as head of the Ministry of Defense in the new government. The reason for this decision was called the disagreement between Fedorov and the Ukrainian generals, including the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky. Rallies against Fedorov's resignation began in many cities of Ukraine today, July 16.
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