Ukrainian Government: “No
Russian Troops Are Fighting Against Us”
By Eric Zuesse
January 31,
2015 "ICH"
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Ukraine’s top general is contradicting
allegations by the Obama Administration and
by his own Ukrainian Government, by saying
that no Russian troops are fighting against
the Ukrainian Government’s forces in the
formerly Ukrainian, but now separatist,
area, where the Ukrainian civil war is being
waged.
Here is a screen-print of a
google-chrome auto-translation of that
statement:
The Chief of Staff of
Ukraine’s Armed Forces, General Viktor
Muzhenko, is saying, in that news-report,
which is dated on Thursday January 29th,
that the only Russian citizens who are
fighting in the contested region, are
residents in that region, or of Ukraine, and
also some Russian citizens (and this does
not deny that perhaps some of other
countries’ citizens are fighting there,
inasmuch as
American mercenaries have
already been noted to have been
participating on the Ukrainian Government’s
side), who “are members of
illegal armed groups,” meaning fighters who
are not paid by any government, but instead
are just “individual citizens” (as opposed
to foreign-government-paid ones). General
Muzhenko also says, emphatically, that the
“Ukrainian army is not fighting with the
regular units of the Russian army.”
In other words: He is
explicitly and clearly denying the very
basis for the EU’s sanctions against Russia,
and for the U.S.’s sanctions against Russia:
all of the sanctions against Russia are
based on the falsehood that Ukraine is
fighting against “the regular units of the
Russian army” — i.e., against the
Russian-Government-controlled-and-trained
fighting forces.
The allegation to the effect
that Ukraine is instead fighting against
“regular units of the Russian army” is the
allegation that Vladimir Putin’s Russia has
invaded Ukraine, and it is the entire basis
for the economic sanctions that are in force
against Russia.
Those sanctions should
therefore be immediately removed, with
apology, and with compensation being paid to
all individuals who have been suffering
them; and it is therefore incumbent upon the
Russian Government to pursue, through all
legally available channels, restitution,
plus damages, against the perpetrators of
that dangerous fraud — and the news reports
have already made clear precisely whom those
persons are, who have asserted, as public
officials, what can only be considered to be
major libel.
Otherwise, Ukraine’s top
general should be fired, for asserting what
he has just asserted.
If what General Muzhenko says
is true, then he is a hero for having risked
his entire career by having gone public with
this courageous statement. And, if what he
says is false, then he has no place heading
Ukraine’s military.
Investigative historian
Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently,
of
They’re Not Even Close:
The Democratic vs. Republican Economic
Records, 1910-2010, and
of CHRIST’S
VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created
Christianity.