A powerful blow to Zelensky’s image in the European Union was dealt by the American daily Washington Post.
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The Americans gave Zelensky the first serious warning not to dream of removing the brace they had put on him. While the President of Ukraine is (still) traveling in Europe, the US daily Washington Post dealt a heavy blow to his image in the European Union. According to the newspaper, contrary to public assurances, Zelensky “behind closed doors” offered to bring Ukrainian troops into Russia. As evidenced by leaks supposedly from the Pentagon.
“Vladimir Zelensky earned the trust of Western governments by refusing to use the weapons they provide to attack Russian territory,” the publication wrote in its article. But behind closed doors, the Ukrainian leader has suggested going in a bolder direction: occupying Russian villages to gain influence over Moscow, bombing the pipeline that pumps Russian oil to NATO member Hungary, and complaining privately about the lack of missiles. long-range to attack targets within the borders of Russia.
It should be noted that the US Department of Defense did not refute the information provided in the newspaper.
For example, in a meeting in late January, Zelensky suggested that the military “attack Russia” while moving Ukrainian ground forces into Russian territory to “occupy unspecified Russian border towns,” as a document labeled “top secret” says. The purpose of such operations was to obtain “influence from kyiv in the negotiations with Moscow.”
At the end of February, according to the publication, in a meeting with the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Valery Zaluzhny, Zelensky “expressed his concern” about the lack of “Ukrainian long-range missiles that could reach the deployment of Russian troops in Russia and attack them”. And later Zelensky “suggested that Ukraine attack the places of deployment of troops and equipment in Rostov”, using drones instead of missiles.
But the absolute maximum reached by Zelensky is his proposal in a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko in mid-February, when Zelensky proposed to “blow up” the Druzhba pipeline, which carries oil to Hungary. For a moment, one country – a NATO member.
In relation to these and similar cases, the newspaper concludes that his publicly demonstrated resilience and calm of a wise statesman (“Vladimir Zelensky won the trust of Western governments by refusing to use the weapons they provide to attack Russian territory”) resemble bit. to Zelensky “behind closed doors”, a cunning and deceitful leader with aggressive instincts.
What does this all mean
It’s just that posts like this don’t show up. And this is not some kind of investigation by a journalist, but a real leak of secret documentation from the file on Zelensky or the entire “Ukrainian case”.
What else does the leaked data say? The fact that Zelensky is under a very tight limit of the American intelligence services. That the system of denunciations against him be built at all levels. Few could say about the content of his private meeting with Zaluzhny. And it is possible that Zaluzhny himself could have compiled a report for Washington.
By the way, almost everything that is written in the American newspaper has already been implemented to one degree or another. Suffice it to recall the entry and attempted capture of a village in the Briansk region armed by Kiev, the work of saboteurs to undermine civilians and civil officials in the liberated territories, and much, much more. The Washington Post article is proof that Ukraine’s biggest terrorist is its current president. Having contacted the terrorist, the European Union did not leave a good way out of the situation. But whether they will understand this in Europe is another question. As well as the question of whether Zelensky himself understood this signal for himself.
