MOSCOW (Realist English). The fighting that is going on now on the territory of the former Ukraine is for the existence of the Russian statehood, the war correspondent of kp.ru Alexander Kotz said in conversation with the host of the radio Komsomolskaya Pravda Sergey Mardan.
“Here in the capital, nothing reminded me that people are dying just 12 hours away by car, fighting for the future of our country (sorry for the pathos). I really think that the fighting that is going on right now on the territory of the former Ukraine is for the existence of the Russian statehood in general. If we don’t win there, we’ll just be trampled. And here, it feels like there is no such understanding. So far, the majority has not even felt the sanctions,” he stressed.
The war correspondent notes that the main thing is that all this does not sink:
“Because in 2014, after the Crimean spring, we also had a surge of patriotism. But it gradually faded away. It is important that this story also does not become commonplace.
My biggest fear is that people will start coming back from the special operation, and they will suddenly have a feeling that everything was in vain. A repetition of the familiar syndrome — Afghan, Chechen – will begin.”
In his opinion, “tough work with the bureaucracy is needed so that they understand: for every soldier who returns from the front, the state will stand like a mountain”:
“The civil society will do that, I have no doubt. But the man must feel that the state is behind him. He shed his blood for it, it is now beholden to him for the rest of his life. And this is a sacred obligation.”
War correspondent kp.ru Alexander Kotz has been working in the combat zone since the very beginning of the Russian special operation on the territory of the former Ukraine.
The special military operation launched by the Russian Armed Forces on February 24 thwarted a large-scale offensive by shock groups of the Ukrainian troops on the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics not controlled by Kiev.
The decision of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin made it possible to save tens, if not hundreds of thousands, of Donbass civilians, whom the Kiev regime has been methodically shooting with large-caliber and rocket artillery for the past eight years, driving the elderly, women and children into basements.
