26.04.2013: Igor Girkin outlines a three-phase strategy derived from the Syrian War for the violent conquest of countries. Events in Ukraine will unfold exactly as he describes. In August 2013, Putin warned that Ukraine’s pro-EU course would spell its downfall.
The timeline clearly illustrates the three phases that Igor Girkin devised in Moscow in April 2013.
Putin had threatened Yanukovych, saying that if he signed the agreement with the EU, he would take over large parts of the country.
According to his own account, Igor Girkin was in Ukraine in the fall of 2013. In mid-January 2014, he was in Crimea to prepare for the annexation.
In the spring of 2014, the Russian army was stationed along the border with Ukraine and was subsequently tasked with protecting the so-called local separatists under the guise of peacekeepers.
Igor Girkin made no secret of his true motives; he himself stated that he had been given the order to overthrow the Ukrainian government.
The so-called separatists in eastern Ukraine received massive support from the Russian army, or were, to a significant extent, the Russian army itself.
Anyone who still claims that Russia did not plan the war against Ukraine well in advance, given that Girkin had already outlined the strategy back in 2013:
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