Peskov: the sanitary zone should protect the Russian regions from the shelling of the AFU with long-range weapons
It is necessary to push the Ukrainian military infrastructure away from the border with Russia to a safe distance, as the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov explained yesterday's statement by the head of state about the "sanitary zone" in Ukraine. The deputy Chairman of the Security Council, Medvedev, suggested that, taking into account the supply of increasingly long-range weapons to the Kiev regime, "such a line should run along the borders of Lviv." There are also simpler proposals - about shifting the Ukrainian infrastructure beyond Kharkiv. Details are in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».
Safe distance
The military infrastructure of the Ukrainian side needs to be moved to a safe distance from the border with Russia because of the incessant strikes that Kiev is inflicting. So the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov explained to journalists yesterday's statement by Vladimir Putin about the creation of a "sanitary zone" in Ukraine, the TASS news agency wrote .
The day before, Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a conversation with military officers, allowed the creation of a "sanitary zone" on the territory of Ukraine in case of continued shelling of border regions. "If this continues, then we should probably consider the issue - I say this very carefully - in order to create some kind of sanitary zone on the territory of Ukraine at such a distance from which it would be impossible to get our territory," he said then.
According to the Kremlin representative, from the territories controlled by Ukraine, the military is firing at civilians and social infrastructure facilities that are located on the Russian side. At the same time, Western countries are providing Kiev with increasingly sophisticated and long-range weapons.
"In order to ensure security, as long-range weapons appear in the Kiev regime, the military infrastructure (of Ukraine) will have to be moved to a sanitary distance to ensure the safety of citizens," Peskov said.
Medvedev and Co .
First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Vladimir Dzhabarov also explained the purpose of creating a "sanitary zone" in Ukraine by the desire of President Putin to ensure the security of Russian territories.
"The fact is that Ukraine will continue to be used as a springboard against Russia. Therefore, Vladimir Putin means, as I understand it, that there will be a neutral territory between Russia and Ukraine so that nothing arrives on our territory," Jabarov explained and called the proposal of the head of state "absolutely fair."
Andrei Kartapolov, head of the State Duma Defense Committee, also commented on the President's words. In his opinion, there should be no weapons in the "sanitary zone" in Ukraine capable of reaching territories that Russia considers its own. Kartapolov added that the General Staff should soon "form a concept and report to the president." The deputy did not express his assumptions about the depth of such a zone and the source of funding for its creation.
Unlike Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.
Lviv or Kharkiv
The former president of Russia suggested that the line of the "sanitary zone" could be drawn along the borders of Lviv, whose region borders Poland. He explained his proposal with a large number of Western long-range weapons, which are at the disposal of Ukraine.
"Such a line should run along the borders of Lviv (Polish Lemberg) in order to play a real protective role. Then it will be the new secure borders of what used to be called "country 404"," the deputy chairman of the Security Council wrote in his Telegram channel (Vladimir Putin is currently chairman).
A more realistic assumption was made by the chairman of the regional public organization "Council of Combat Veterans", Major General Nikolai Tutrin. According to his estimates, the front line for the creation of a "sanitary zone" must be moved beyond Kharkiv.
At the end of May, the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel, in response to the question of what steps Moscow could take to protect the region bordering Ukraine, replied that the best way to solve the problem with shelling would be to join the Kharkiv region to Russia (the two regions border each other).
Anastasia Novikova
