However, Putin did not announce a general mobilization of Russians for the war against Ukraine. At least, openly, about the possibility of which Ukrainian and foreign experts spoke.

The President’s speech was broadcast by the Russian mass media.

The President of the aggressor country said that in December last year, the Russian Federation “offered to conclude an agreement on security guarantees, called on the West to find compromise solutions, taking into account each other’s interests,” to which the countries of the Alliance allegedly did not agree.

“The NATO countries did not want to hear us, they had completely different plans. We were threatened with an invasion of our territories, in particular in the Crimea. It was obvious that a clash with neo-Nazis, Bandera would be inevitable. The danger grew every day, Russia gave a warning rebuff” Putin said trying to justify Russia’s brutal and bloody invasion of Ukraine.

However, the President of the Russian Federation did not announce the official start of the war against Ukraine and general mobilization.

Note that the official declaration of war on Ukraine could open the way for Putin to general mobilization in Russia. Such a scenario was allowed by military experts and intelligence officers . However, ordinary Russians would hardly have supported such an idea of their president, preferring to contemplate the genocide of Ukrainians from their TV screens. At the same time, American diplomats are sure that Putin has a fallback option – the annexation of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions within their administrative borders, along with part of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.

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