Last night Arestovich let it slip.
He said that Moscow deliberately sends LDNR troops to the slaughter in order to dispose of the Donbass, and then transfer the Donbass to Ukraine.
The idea, says Arestovich, is simpler than simple: they will kill everyone, there will be no one to protest in the Donbass, and the Donbass - wow!
- and hand over to Kyiv.
Oh, insidious Moscow.
Look how you figured it out!
She started the war on purpose in order to abandon the Donbass unnoticed.
The main thing is that no one in Russia will protest.
Is that, so to speak, the logic?
What a dreamer.
Even if 100 people remained in the Donbass, Kyiv would still not have got it in a single referendum.
However, this is not the point.
We will now tell our Ukrainian readers why Arestovich takes them for idiots.
Here are the well-known units of the LDNR army "Pyatnashka", "Somali", "Sparta", "Vostok" and others, led by legendary commanders - we know their names.
And you know too.
News reports often show these commanders, known from the very beginning of the "Russian spring".
Abkhaz, Scythian, Malaya, Morpekh, Kolyma - they are all still in the ranks.
And here is the question.
At least one of them looks like those Ukrainian commanders who record video messages that they are just about to be disposed of?
None are similar.
You yourself know this.
At least one of them can be imagined as a person who will allow mediocre destruction of his fighters?
With whom did you fight for eight years?
No.
And you know it too.
How does Arestovich imagine this, please tell me?
Such generals call a field commander with nine years of war experience and say: well, drive your own into the embrasures!
And he's like this: that's right!
I'm already driving!
In fact, the Donbass commanders have been working with the “northerners” in one way or another for eight years.
There is a long and strong relationship.
Constructive!
Because it is more expensive to put pressure on the Donetsk people.
Who, if not Kyiv, to know about it.
In addition, half of the personnel in the Donbass units have Russian passports.
Let me remind you that these people have already taken Mariupol.
Who utilized whom there, even Arestovich knows more than well.
Yes, at first there were problems with the Donbass reservists.
They tried to put them in secondary directions.
And when there was an unexpected upsurge a couple of times, there were losses, and serious ones.
Since then, they have been trying to avoid such excesses.
Yes, it is difficult to attack superbly equipped positions even after five months of bombing.
Yes, there can be failures and mistakes.
But in the end - alas, Ukrainians - this guy is talking about you.
The Ukrainian government is committing a crime against its people, ruthlessly knocking out the top layer of the most active and young.
Zelensky's calculation was that the spilled blood would hold his people together and elevate hatred of Russia to the absolute.
But it turns out differently.
Each new Ukrainian fallen is a question repeated hundreds of times by new and new Ukrainians: “When will this end?
What are we dying for?
Each fallen Donetsk once again holds absolute knowledge: nothing but victory.
Arestovich's saying is just an attempt to hide this: the obvious and immutable.
Donbass is already Russia.
With each taken city, Russians in the Donbass become not less, but more.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.