Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi, responds to the President of Russia Volodymyr Putin, who announced the new goal of the “special military operation” in Ukraine – the “elimination of the anti-Russian enclave” from the territory of Ukraine. “Ukraine is the place of your inglorious end,” replied the advisor to the President of Ukraine.

• “Russian propaganda since February: “NATO provoked us.”
• Putin’s statements today: “our goal is to eliminate Ukraine, we deny the existence of such a country.”
• On Knowledge Day in Russia, the lesson of history should be remembered. Ukraine is the place where it all began.
• Ukraine is also the place of your inglorious end,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy, adviser to the President of Ukraine, wrote on Twitter.

Putin named the new goal of the “special forces operation” in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday named a new goal of a “special military operation” in Ukraine, saying that it is aimed at “eliminating an anti-Russian enclave” from the territory of the neighboring country, Interfax reports.

• “An anti-Russian enclave has begun to be created on the territory of Ukraine, which threatens our country.
• That is why our guys who are fighting there protect both the residents of Donbas and Russia itself. And it certainly deserves the support of the entire society,” Putin said during a meeting with students of the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.

He also reported that after the “coup d’état” that took place in Ukraine in 2014 (it is not about Euromaidan), the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, as well as Crimea, did not want to recognize the new regime in Kyiv.

Putin added that Ukraine started a war against its own people and that Russia’s mission is to stop this war.

It will be recalled that in his declaration of war, which he read early in the evening of February 24, the Kremlin leader named the “demilitarization” and “denazification” of Ukraine as the main goals of the invasion he ordered. He also spoke about stopping the expansion of NATO to Russia’s borders.

Two days before the start of the war, Vladimir Putin recognized the sovereignty of the separatists over the entire territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and not only over that which they controlled at the time of their recognition of independence.

On March 25, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said that Russia’s goal is the “complete liberation” of Donbas, a region in eastern Ukraine that is home to the so-called People’s Republic of pro-Russian separatists.

But in mid-June, the Pentagon warned that, despite numerous defeats in the war, Vladimir Putin still likely wants to conquer large parts of Ukraine, if not the entire country. Denys Pusilin, the leader of the Donetsk separatists, publicly called for this at the end of July.

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