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tosh
Keine offiziellen Streitkräfte, nur Freiwillige/Söldner. Wie auf der Gegenseite.
Putin spricht ausdruecklich seit letzter Woche von NATO-Truppen in der Ukraine. Diese Umschreibung hat er erstmals letzte Woche gewaehlt. Vorher war Putin da die ganze Zeit viel zurueckhaltender.
Der BND kann das gerne nachpruefen.
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Regrettably, the government in Kiev has refused to take the road of a peaceful settlement and does not want to resolve the problem through political means. First they used the law enforcement agencies, then the security services, and then the army. Later, when they ran up against resistance, they suspended military operations, but sadly, they only used the temporary peace to regroup and then start their operations again. They are pursuing these operations again now. Thousands of people have already been killed. This is certainly a real tragedy.
We often speak of the ‘Ukrainian army’, but who is doing the fighting there in reality? Yes, in part it is official armed forces units, but a substantial part of those doing the fighting come from the so-called volunteer nationalist battalions. Essentially, this is not an army but is a foreign legion, in this particular case, a NATO foreign legion, which is not pursuing Ukraine’s national interests of course. They have completely different goals, related to achieving their geopolitical aim of containing Russia, and this is absolutely not in the Ukrainian people’s national interests.
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Was Herr Putin im stillen Kaemmerlein bespricht, weiss ich natuerlich nicht. Der BND aber auch nicht 
AW: Krisenherd Ukraine
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