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9 Aug, 10 tweets, 4 min read
If you live in occupied Donbas & felt all your life that you're Russian, belong to Russia, want to join RU, it's a mistake to continue living in Donbas. Donbas will never be RU. For the future of your kids and grandkids, you should seek your place in Russia.

- President Zelensky
Zelensky makes an absolutely uncharacteristic statement which is a massive departure from his stated objective and policy of "winning hearts and minds" of Ukrainians in Russia-occupied Donbas, Ukraine.

This should raise eyebrows.

Even though many would agree with the general sentiment, not only it is at odds with Zelensky's previous position, it is a dangerous - and possibly harmful - way for the president of Ukraine to address residents of Russia-occupied Ukraine.
Zelensky's statement is especially suspect given the imminent threat of another Russian offensive. Putin is looking for a casus belli in order to make a new big move against Ukraine. It appears Ze's statement delivered it to Putin on a silver platter.
Russia immediately grabbed the opportunity, staging several attacks on residential areas in RU-occupied Ukraine, blaming UA for the shelling, claiming the UA army was acting on Ze's statement.

And then came the BIG switch in RU's propaganda narrative...

Until Ze's statement, Russia claimed it "supports Donbas" to "protect Russian speakers from Kiev junta".

Russia's NEW narrative: RU is "obliged to protect 1 mln Russian citizens living in Donbas".

This follows rapid "passportization" of occupied UA.

Everything points to Moscow preparing to implement an Ossetian and Abkhazian like scenario in Donbas, they key element of which was to legitimize Russian troops on the ground as "peace keepers" "protecting Russian citizens".

All that's needed is pretext.

Ze's statement seems primed to be used as a piece in Russia's propaganda puzzle to justify sending the regular RU army undisguised into Ukraine on official Kremlin orders.

RU is claiming that Ze wants to wipe Donbas clean of Russians through violence.

Russia can use Zeleneky's statement further and allege that he himself knows that the Ukrainians (who now hold Russian passports) in Donbas feel Russian, are loyal to Russian, and feel a part of the Russian Federation.

Considering how uncharacteristic the statement was, how perfect a gift to the Kremlin it appears to be, and that Moscow acted on it *immediately*, it is extremely difficult not to question Ze's motives in dropping his "win the hearts and minds" approach.

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