Under the guise of ATO, the government is pursuing a policy of pacifying the separatists, - Gavrish
Kyiv, April 29 (Navigator, Evgeny Andreev) – The anti-terrorist operation in Donbass, advertised by the Kyiv authorities, is a fiasco.
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Former first deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Stepan Gavrish stated this on the air of the Kyiv Channel 5.
“What’s most unpleasant, besides the OSCE mission, which is a challenge for both the world community and the Ukrainian authorities, they (rebels in Slavyansk - Navigator) detained three Alpha officers, and the SBU is silent, it does not release its comrades, knowing their location, understanding that it is quite localized, a place where their release can be carried out tactically and quickly,” the expert noted.
In fact, he added, the authorities are playing a strange game with those resisting in the Donbass.
“From what I see, it seems to me that there is an order from above not to use weapons, not to shoot, or to conduct any kind of police containment operation in any way. This, by any standards, is not an anti-terrorist operation; under the guise of it, events take place under pressure from society, a demonstration of such muscles that at any moment can be tied with a rope and handed over to extremists,” says Stepan Gavrish.
Under the guise of the ATO , the government is pursuing a policy of appeasing the separatists, says Gavrish.