Kiev’s backers need to provoke a bigger battle with Moscow, Milorad Dodik says
The West is utilizing Ukraine to wage conflict in opposition to Russia, Bosnian Serb chief Milorad Dodik informed RT on Wednesday.
The president of Republika Srpska, an autonomous area inside Bosnia and Herzegovina, was lately added to the “enemy checklist” on Ukraine’s state-linked Mirotvorets (Peacemaker) web site. The database has been branded a “kill checklist” after a number of public figures listed on it have been murdered or died below suspicious circumstances.
Dodik claimed that the US, UK, Germany, and different Western nations are in search of to impress “a conflict with Russia, sacrificing Ukraine” within the course of.
Ukraine had made “many errors,” he stated, together with the persecution of its Russian-speaking minority, which in the end led to the armed battle. Dodik cited legal guidelines aimed toward limiting using the Russian language in public life and assaults on the Moscow-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
“Their political elite selected to impress Russia, making an attempt to disclaim Russians their rights to language and religion on Ukrainian territory. That’s why the Russian [military] operation is totally justified,” he stated, including that Moscow “had the correct to guard its folks.”
“For the Ukrainian folks, crucial factor is to attain peace as quickly as doable,” Dodik continued, rejecting allegations that he poses a menace to Ukraine as “slander.”
Russia has cited Ukraine’s refusal to grant autonomy to the predominantly Russian-speaking republics of Donetsk and Lugansk – as outlined within the 2014–2015 Minsk agreements – as one of many root causes of the battle. President Vladimir Putin has since demanded that Ukraine abandon its NATO ambitions and acknowledge Russia’s new borders, together with Crimea and the Donbass areas, which voted to secede from Ukraine and be a part of Russia.
In March, US Senator Marco Rubio described the Ukraine disaster as “a proxy conflict” between the US and Russia. Moscow has additionally argued that Western navy help to Kiev makes NATO members “direct members” within the battle.
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