Russia was set to seize left-bank Ukraine for 15 days: Plan leaked to web (+document)

Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Minister, states that he is holding Russia’s work plan on the seizure of Donbas. The 40-page document was published on the website of the research centre ‘Peacemaker’.

“In April 2015 the General Staff of the Russian Federation enacted another plan to capture the left-bank part of Ukraine. The meeting on approval of the plan took place on April 8-9 in St. Petersburg in the headquarters of the Western Military District,”  Gerashchenko said.

In accordance with the published plan, the Russian troops were due to enter the territory of Kharkiv, Donetsk, Poltava, Chernihiv and Kyiv regions. The offensive was to have been disguised as the actions of separatist ‘militia’.

Among other things, the document studies strengths and weaknesses of the Ukrainian army. The fact that a significant proportion of the population supports the actions of the Russian armed forces and separatists is considered as an advantage.

Russians were planning to hold a series of provocations against the Ukrainian troops to set up the people against them, Gerashchenko states.

“To put it plainly, it is planned to kill a few residents of the occupied Ukrainian Donbas, to film the execution, snap photos of it and then cast the blame on the Ukrainian side,” he stressed.

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