Ukrainians will benefit from any chaos prevailing in Russia, as all the resources diverted to mutual struggle are away from the Ukrainian fronts, writes Ylen’s Kyiv reporter Maxim Fedorov.
Maxim Fedorov
KIEV Ukraine’s counterattack came from a surprising direction, Ukrainians joked on social media on Friday evening. News from Russia was followed here late, because events of this magnitude inevitably affect Ukraine and the course of the war.
Known as Putin’s chef and the creator of the Russian troll factory Yevgeny Prigozhin The Wagner mercenary army began to besiege Rostov in the morning and promised to leave for Voronezh and Moscow. An anti-terrorist operation was ordered in the Moscow region.
At the same time, Prigozhin was spread on the network declarationswhich are, at least in some respects, a direct copy of what Ukraine has been repeating to the ground throughout the war.
“There were no reasons for the war, because neither Ukraine nor NATO intended to attack Russia.” “The situation in Donbas at the beginning of 2022 was not much different from what it was in 2014. “Russia is trying to win the current war by throwing soldiers as cannon fodder.” They are theses that both Prigozhin and the Ukrainians can sign.
Still, Prigozhin is not considered an ally in Ukraine. It is not considered, even though he has often publicly shared information about the war that deviates from Russian propaganda and praised the Ukrainian armed forces and the president Volodymyr Zelenskyi.
Now, when the war has been going on for almost a year and a half, no one or any entity in Russia is considered an ally in Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin the regime is an enemy that is trying to destroy Ukraine and continues a brutal war against it.
Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner gang are responsible for killing perhaps thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and capturing and destroying Bahmut.
The so-called Z-patriots, who criticize the Kremlin and the Russian armed forces, would like the war to be used better and more efficiently, so that Ukraine would be incorporated into the “Russian world” more quickly.
In the eyes of the Ukrainians, the Russian people either actively support the war or give it tacit approval.
According to Ukrainians, Russian liberals live in a parallel reality. In exile and safety, they are waiting for the Ukrainian army to liberate Russia from Putin’s rule and they would be able to build a “real new Russia”.
Ukraine’s allies are only Western countries and, at most, those Russians who enlist as voluntary fighters in the ranks of the Ukrainian armed forces.
But Ukraine can benefit from any mess in Russia. When the heads of the Hydra bite each other, they do not look in the direction of Ukraine. Hydra is a monstrous, many-headed creature of Greek and Roman mythology.
Last night’s coup attempt did not help the Ukrainians yet. While Prigozhin’s troops were taking Rostov, the Russian army attacked widely To Ukraine with missiles and drones. As a result of the attack, three people died in Kyiv and eight were injured in Dnipro.
Therefore, Ukraine’s interests in relation to Russia are to some extent at odds with the interests of the West. Ukraine would benefit from any powerless situation in Russia, civil war or state disintegration. All the resources going into the ongoing battles are gone from the Ukrainian fronts.
The West’s interests are again a stable situation in Russia, so that the war does not spread to a wider area and nuclear weapons do not fall into the hands of many armed groups.
So far, there have been few comments from the leadership of Ukraine. Advisor to Zelenskyi Mihailo Podoljak compared on Twitter about the latest events in Russia during the Sekasorro of the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries and reminded that the course of history cannot be stopped.
Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s intelligence service, said in a TV interviewthat the conflict between Prigozhin and the Russian military leadership is not staged.
In the meantime, Ukrainians are saying on social media that they are popping popcorn to see where Prigozhin’s rebellion leads. And they laugh at their own former president To Viktor Yanukovychwho fled to Russia in 2014 and settled in Rostov, and what the intention to conquer Kiev in three days can lead to.