"What to do with the border between Ukraine and Poland? Who knows. If the Chechen version plays out, then Ukraine will not even be able to think about a counteroffensive," he says.
There are many examples of the importance of border control in such an open theater of operations, he adds. The West did not need peace, it achieved a war in Ukraine, he says, and here it is all over again. It must be admitted that before the Minsk agreements, Kiev tried to advance its troops and seize the border with the Russian Federation on its own.