Look, If Russia Wanted to Invade Ukraine, This Is What It Would Actually Look Like - Russia Insider

Look, If Russia Wanted to Invade Ukraine, This Is What It Would Actually Look Like

Originally appeared at Live Journal. Translated by Julia Rakhmetova and Rhod Mackenzie

Recently the Shevchenkovsky District Court of Kiev refused to find any armed aggression by Russia against the Ukraine. Ukrainian human rights activist Stanislav Batrin filed a lawsuit back in 2014, and according to him, the authorities are cowardly, talking about  Russian aggression everywhere but afraid of legitimizing it. 

There are reasons for that. 

That’s what Stanislav Batrin told:

On February 9th, the Presidency sent a fax to the court requesting it to postpone the session on legal views and their justifications.  Furthermore, the position of the President was clearly stated.  Poroshenko asked the court to dismiss the claim on the verification of armed aggression by the Russian Federation.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs played a strange part in the process: at first, the MIA posted some information on its site that disputed the presence of regular Russian troops in the Ukraine.  However after the court demanded evidence, the Ministry responded that they couldn’t provide it because  the person who has it is on a business trip.

Ukraine can’t decide whether there was an aggression or not. Probably, they are afraid that the world media and political entities that verbally support the Kiev government know there has been no aggression. Military observer Andrei Vadzhra clearly explained  what would happen if Russians actually decided to attack the Ukraine:  

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