Raksha Anirveda
Musings from Russia
Ukrainian President Zelensky, French President Macron and Russian President Putin
Chart Your Own Course, India! As Russia braces for a long-drawn war in Ukraine, New Delhi need not be perturbed by the West’s criticism of not being overtly critical of Putin’s aggression. The failure of Russia will be a big blow to India’s strategic autonomy and leave the vast Eurasian space for China to dominate By Vinay Shukla
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n the fog of war and powerful Western information warfare, hardly any substantial gains seem visible of more than sixty days of the Kremlin’s ‘special military operation.’ But there is a deeper understanding in Moscow that it would be a drawn out war with the United States-led collective West in battlefield Ukraine. The sinking of Moskva, Russia’s Black Sea Fleet’s flagship guided missile cruiser, on April 14 resulted in the sharp escalation of Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian military installations, arms depots and ammunition dumps. The aggression
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extended to western borders in close vicinity of NATO members Poland and Slovakia from where uninterrupted arms supplies are being made to the Kiev regime of President Volodymyr Zelinsky, who is clearly working not for protecting
his fellow citizens but urging his Western promoters to pour more aid with the singular aim to discredit and weaken Putin’s Russia. With the rapid advance of Russian armoured columns from the territory of Belarus towards capital Kiev and from Belgorod towards major industrial city of Kharkiv, it looked a cake walk for the Kremlin, especially when they were met with Ukrainian tanks with barrels lifted up and local residents in rural areas welcoming invading troops with red
