‘For us, Ukraine is the same as Pakistan for India. And so we are going to have our peaceful Pakistan, and pro-Indian Pakistan on our border’ | India News,The Indian Express

Alexey Kupriyanov, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, spoke to Nirupama Subramanian

This morning President Vladimir Putin announced the start of the operation against Ukrainian forces for the de-Nazification and demilitarisation of Ukraine. But we do not know yet how far this will go. It means a change of leadership of Ukraine that will be more friendly to Russia. And the formal reason was Ukraine’s failure to fulfill its obligations under the Minsk Agreement over the past seven years.

So far we have seen targeted strikes on military infrastructure such as command and control centres, airfields, military depots, and fighting on the line of contact in Donbass between forces of the two republics and the Ukrainian forces. And now there are reports of the entry of Russian forces into Ukraine with practically null resistance.

What does demilitarisation and de-Nazification actually mean?

In Russian political discourse, the thesis about the happenings in Ukraine in 2014 is, that the revolution in Ukraine as portrayed in the Western media, was actually a coup d’etat, and a forcible change of power. And this was supported by far right groups. And a lot of these far right groups then fought in Donbass against Russians. So President Volodymyr Zelensky was elected under the flag of peace. He was supported by those sections who supported the peaceful resolution of [the conflict in] Donbass.

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