Thread by @VolodyaTretyak

PART 2 of the interview with gen. Kryvonos made by Mark Solonin and translated by me.
Topic: very fast advances of RU forces in the south and towards Kyiv in the first days of the war.
Translation:

Interviewer:
"The following question has been discussed many times, but I need to ask it because it interests everyone. Interest is not the right word, serious concern. /1

During the first three days, the enemy in the south passed 400 kilometers from Perekop through Melitopol, Berdyansk, and Mariupol, if you measure by the map in a straight line. Such distance in three days is a forced march. This is not an offensive, but it is a forced march. /2

I have a simple question. I do not expect a long answer. May there be another explanation for such a march other than criminal negligence?" /3

Gen. Kryvonos:
"It's not negligence; It's treason. The question is, who gave the command to demine the bridges from Crimea? That is the question that worries everyone. /4

And the stories that a Security Service of Ukraine involved (SBU), well… the military laughs with these stories that the SBU turned in the maps of minefields and the order of mines. /5

But people who know, i.e., who have access to such things, perfectly understand: SBU will not be permitted to these things even closer than one kilometer. And there is no way people, even in high general's shoulder straps of the SBU, can have these documents. /6

Moreover, these people certainly cannot give the command to demine particular objects. It is simply an information manipulation. It is called the creation of false targets, to which everything is distracted. It's nothing. Therefore, it is pure treason. /7

And who is the traitor the public has yet to hear? And it is very interesting because we don't have the information. There are no comments from top leadership. Accordingly, there is a certain distrust toward the leadership. /8

To lose such a massive chunk for nothing, just for nothing. /9

In 2014, from March to mid-May, I was in charge of anti-subversion activities in the Kherson region, and just as I knew exactly about the mining of all the bridges, bridges, even stakes, which allowed us to feel at ease. /10

And the people who were with me did the research; the military engineers participated too. I had absolute confidence. Excuse me, it was a shock when we rudely fucked up a vast chunk of territory, without a single shot being fired or a single Russian tank being burned. /11

That's a betrayal."

Interviewer:
"Massive shock. But demining is one thing; bridges, crossings, and dams are on the way out of Crimea. Well, that's not all, but it came out of Crimea. Further, it is 300 kilometers to Mariupol. You have to drive through the steppe. /12

But there, too, as I understand it, there must have been some lines of defense, some troops, some firepower, and nothing happened. Did everyone receive a command not to shoot? What happened?" /13

Gen. Kryvonos
"Well, that's a question that we also wanted to... It also concerns you and me in quite a big way. So I think the investigation after our victory will show who is to blame for this failure." /14

Interviewer:
"Now I want to go back to 24-25 February, when the enemy was also in Irpin, Vorzel, on the morning of February 25. So these are already the suburbs of Kyiv, practically the dacha suburbs of Kyiv. /15

In this case, too, you would probably say that the enemy should not have gone 100 kilometers through the forest roads with the proper organization of UA combat operations."

Gen. Kryvonos:
"Absolutely correct. /16

And the fact that the attack will come from the side of Belarus is one hundred percent. A year before the start of the war, I warned the country's leadership, and, in principle, I was fired for that. They did not want to hear what they did not want to hear. /17

That's the first thing. /18

Second, even in December 2021, I asked, demanded, and proposed to hold maneuvers on dangerous tank routes along the Russian-Ukrainian border, and on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, about the presence of Russian troops in Belarus and their accumulation was known to everybody. /19

But there was no reaction. So was it negligence or carelessness? I do not know what to call it. I do not have 100% access to that information, and I have not interviewed the people who were responsible for it. It's tough to draw such conclusions. /20

So let's say that yes, there can be negligence. But all the same, probably a large proportion of the betrayal of not deciding on the subject of referral can be justified by only one thing: lack of effort and resources to solve it or with the command to do nothing." /21

The next thread will be about the airports around Kyiv. Gen. Kryvonos will tell how he commanded the defense of Zhuliany airport.
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