ΤΟ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟ ΚΕΙΜΕΝΟ ΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΕΙ

EDITOR’S NOTE: Kyra Adam, of the “Dimokratia” newspaper group, is among the best foreign policy reporters in Greece.  In this excellent, filled-with-facts piece, she presents the current state of the global war in Ukraine without the propaganda of the western mainstream media.  Enjoy it in English, followed by the original Greek text.

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Putin’s new doctrine: Level all the infrastructure of Ukraine!

The air and missile strikes ordered by the Kremlin have as scapegoats the countries of Europe

Russia is changing its war model, aiming to dismantle all infrastructure in Ukraine. The change in the shape of war operations further worsens Russia-West relations, with Europe always the scapegoat, and challenges NATO forces to greater readiness, with huge costs and involvement in the field, to the limit of Russia’s tactical nuclear operations.

By Kyra Adam

Vladimir Putin has effectively changed, without fanfare, the doctrine of “limited special operations” in the Russian-speaking regions of eastern Ukraine, which he has already formally annexed to the Russian Federation, despite Western outcry, to “counter-terrorism operations” to the Ukrainian forces against Russia.

Kyiv and NATO “helped” Vl. Putin to formulate and argue for his “anti-terrorist campaign”, after three back-to-back strikes: the terrorist environmental attack on the Russian gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2, the murder of Daria Dugina (admitted by Ukrainian Authorities), and the partial attack, without serious damage, on the bridge in the Strait of Kerch, Crimea.

The push of Ukrainian forces to the “border” between Ukraine and the Russian-speaking regions of eastern Ukraine, now “Russian territory” after their annexation, is included in Putin’s new doctrine, which prohibits Ukrainians from touching the annexed territories in Russia. Moscow, without so far explaining the reasons, is allowing Ukrainian forces to advance unopposed and liberate areas that are not included in the annexed Russian-speaking regions of the Russian Federation.

In the event that Ukrainian forces decide to invade the regions of Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson, which Russia already considers Russian territory, Moscow warns that it will destroy Ukraine, because, according to the Russian version, any possible attack by of Ukrainian forces on Russian territory of the annexed Ukrainian territories would be considered an act of aggression by NATO, the EU, the US and Canada against Russian sovereignty.

Since last Monday, October 10, Russia has been carrying out specific “anti-terrorist actions” on the territory of Ukraine. These are targeted, escalating attacks on all of Ukraine’s critical infrastructure until the entire country is paralyzed and the Western military presence in the country is severely damaged. The current, continuous and intensive Russian air and missile raids throughout Ukraine are aimed at destroying all the country’s infrastructure (energy, communications, road and rail networks).

Precision air and missile strikes are carried out on strategically important energy infrastructure. This has the effect of collapsing electricity transmission networks, which, in addition to plunging cities into darkness – already 60% of the country’s networks have been destroyed – also causes enormous problems for Ukraine’s exports. Kyiv has so far exported cheap electricity during an energy crisis to four countries – Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Moldova. The Ukrainian authorities have already notified these countries that exports will stop, because the country needs this excess electricity domestically.

The problems with electricity have a heavy impact on telecommunications. And this is because with the neutralization of these targets, there will be no control by the aircraft of the West (electronic warfare, AWACS and Stars), nor command and direction for the Ukrainian forces. In particular, Western espionage forces will not be able to give operational instructions to the Ukrainian forces, not even by mobile phone. In addition, the destruction of road networks and railway lines will cause huge problems in the logistics of the Ukrainian forces, in the transport of personnel – military equipment and munitions, etc., as a result of which the vanguard forces will be cut off from the rear. Moscow openly argues that if Russian operations continue at the same intensity for a few weeks, it will lead to the complete collapse of Ukraine and the humiliation of Western powers.

NATO and the rest of the Western powers are trying to react immediately to the new Russian doctrine of destroying Ukrainian infrastructure by sharply increasing the aid to Ukraine in anti-aircraft systems and surface-to-surface missiles. At the same time as the meeting of the Council of Ministers in Brussels, the Contact Group for the Defense of Ukraine met, with the participation of more than 50 Western countries, which promised immediate reinforcement and training of the Ukrainian forces in anti-aircraft systems mainly.

Blockade in the US ‘unipolar world’

In Astana, Kazakhstan, on Thursday, Vl. Putin had the opportunity to talk “with his friends” and like-minded people of a “multipolar world” against the “unipolar world” of the US and its Western allies.

In his conversation with the Chinese president, the latter explained to him that China and Russia “stand like brothers”, because a fall of Putin and a defeat of Russia means a move by the West against China. In his conversation with the Indian president, the Russian president noted that from now on “the war depends on the West and Ukraine”, which he can “flatten” without encountering a reaction from his opponents.

In his private meeting with the Turkish president, Mr Putin floated the idea of ​​forming a new “energy hub” in Turkey, which would now supply Europe, without a specific response from Mr. Erdogan.

At the CICA (Confidence-Building Conference in Asia) meeting, Mr Putin raised the dimension of a “multipolar world,” with Asia playing a key role as new power centers grow stronger in the region. China, India, Egypt, Qatar, UAE, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, as well as Afghanistan took part in CICA, among others!

Alexandroupoli, Athens FIR: The gates of NATO operations

The change in Russian operations has seriously worried NATO, and as a result it has increased its surveillance in the Mediterranean. For the first time since the 1990s, so many forces have gathered in the Mediterranean, as well as in the Romanian region, via Alexandroupolis.

This results from the presence of American, Spanish, French, German, Dutch and English forces in the Mediterranean region (G.BUSH aircraft carrier, three French surface ships, one Spanish, one German) and ongoing NATO exercises in the Mediterranean. In support of NATO air forces, English aerial refueling aircraft. Air to Air Refueling, daily, fly within the Athens FIR as far as Romania and the Black Sea to refuel Western fighter jets in the event of a generalization of Russian-Western conventional operations.

“Dimokratia” reveals today the note/announcement A 3202/22, which shows the British aerial refueling aircraft threshing into the Athens FIR, going to Romania and the Black Sea and back. At the same time, it reveals the depiction of the flight of the English aircraft.

At the same time, a large number of aerial refueling aircraft (English, Dutch, German and Italian aircraft) perform aerial refueling to warplanes on an almost daily basis in support of NATO warplanes in the Athens FIR. And indeed illegal, given that Greece has not signed a memorandum of cooperation with these countries for aerial refueling within the Athens FIR, for which the filing of flight plans and the respect of the 10 nautical miles of the national airspace.

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