The invaders staged another massive rocket attack on Ukraine. The Russians partly hope that they can persuade the Ukrainian political leadership to negotiate.
Rostislav Smirnov, former adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, stated this in a commentary on Channel 24 . According to him, the Russians cannot completely abandon this. Meanwhile, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky reacted to the rocket attack by the occupiers.
“They can no longer refuse this idea. Even though it is ridiculous and despite the fact that it does not have any results,” he said.
Demonstration of “victories” for the Russian people
Smirnov is convinced that the occupiers live from the position that they are fighting and must show certain “victories” for their people. They say that “they attack the enemy and destroy his capabilities.” And now the Russian army is in such a situation that it cannot but fire.
“They will usually tell at home that these are military units, facilities that work, in particular, for our army, etc.,” the ex-radical of the interior minister said.
According to him, the occupiers will continue to fire further in order to explain to their audience and to make it clear to the Ukrainians that they can do it.
They will continue to terrorize in order to again persuade us to negotiate,” Smirnov said.
In his opinion, now there are two main points that, at least, can be seen in the information space.
“They set another task for themselves – this is the” liberation “of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The deadline is March 31,” he said.
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And after reaching the administrative boundaries of these regions, the former adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs is sure, the occupiers want to become a “deaf” defense and force Ukraine to negotiate.
To talk with our, in particular, European partners. “We are supposedly ready for negotiations. Decline Ukraine, give it fewer weapons,” he said.
Rostislav Smirnov is convinced that, in general, this will be a tactic of freezing the conflict , but nothing will come of this for the Russians.
“We continue our struggle and we will definitely not stop. And we can’t even talk about any negotiations now,” Smirnov said.
The Russians do not reach
The former adviser to the Minister of the Interior suggests that the enemy still cannot understand that by such shelling, on the contrary, he sharpens questions and the will to our victory and struggle.
As the second President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma wrote: “Ukraine is not Russia.” And they still cannot understand this, even after a year of full-scale war,” he summed up.
Massive rocket attack on March 9: latest news
- On March 9, the Russians launched a massive missile attack on Ukraine. the invaders launched 81 missiles of various bases. Air defense forces shot down 34 out of 48 cruise missiles, as well as 4 kamikaze drones out of 8.
- On the air of Channel 24, Yuri Ignat, the speaker of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, for the first time announced information about the use of 6 Kinzhal hypersonic missiles at once. Subsequently, the information was confirmed in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- According to military expert, colonel in the reserve of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, pilot-instructor Roman Svitan, During this missile attack, the Russians tried a new tactic.
