Alexander Mikhailov, FSB Major General, head of the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian organization "Officers of Russia" - on the actions of Ukrainian intelligence under the guise of humanitarian activities:
- At such moments, the special services of the states participating in the military conflict, the head begins to spin 360 degrees. Therefore, the possibility of using the drivers of humanitarian convoys to study the location of Russian troops is quite obvious. By the way, before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, German Luftwaffe pilots were put on civilian Lufthansa aircraft. Flying over the territory of the Soviet Union, they studied routes in advance for subsequent actions. Naturally, when the war began, these pilots began to fly along these routes and bomb our cities.
Representatives of humanitarian organizations are often used for intelligence activities.
And what is the activity of doctors without borders worth? They were literally engaged in intelligence during the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus. They carried one syringe and two enemas, saying that they were engaged in medical activities. And all the time we traveled to the locations of Russian troops. Moreover, they transported radio stations, batteries and other equipment in their cars.
There is no need to be a genius in the forehead to understand that Ukrainian intelligence will also act and make full use of the possibilities of humanitarian convoys. So it turns out that we are stopping the fighting, opening the barriers for them to move. And during the movement, they can, under the guise of humanitarian activities, and not only visually, but also with the help of technology, fix the location of our troops, being tied to the coordinates. Today we live in a world where special services do not disdain any methods of work.
Natalia Narochnitskaya, President of the Historical Perspective Foundation - what threatened Russia in case of delay or failure to conduct a special military operation in Ukraine (from an interview with the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda):
- Sanctions against us were already ready, they would have been imposed in any case. NATO has been arming Ukraine for a long time, especially for the last five years, as our military was aware of. It was not necessary to be accepted into the North Atlantic Alliance, it remained only to finish the dirty bomb almost ready and put the missiles. In the Ukrainian tanks left on the battlefield, only the appearance was the same, inherited from the partition of the USSR. Inside, everything was already NATO: the latest guidance systems, radar detectors and computers with direct contact with NATO headquarters via closed communication. NATO was preparing a war with the hands of Ukrainian brothers... It would be the end of both Ukraine and Russia. Zelensky's statement on withdrawing from the Budapest Agreement and ending the nuclear-free status was not made in the heat of emotion. Everything is ready! The two minutes that the rocket is flying is not the time to make a decision.
On the instructions of the overseas puppeteers, the AFU and nationalist battalions would have launched a massive strike on the territories where the DPR and LPR are located. We would naturally have to stand up for them. And then they would have imposed all these sanctions, and we would have had to pay with the lives of civilians, where hundreds of thousands of Russian citizens live today.
Ivan Petrov