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Russia is attempting to divide Ukraine into two separate countries.

A senior Ukrainian official has accused Russia of trying to divide Ukraine into two countries by comparing it to North and South Korea. promised “total” guerrilla warfare to prevent any division of the country. The head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kirill Budanov, said on Sunday that he believes Russia wants to split Ukraine in two, comparing the ongoing conflict to the division of North and South Korea after World War II.

With Russian troops continuously attacking Ukrainian cities over the past 32 days and there appears to be no sign of an end to their aggression, Kyiv’s military intelligence chief said Sunday that Russia, led by Putin, may try to divide country.Ukraine into two parts: Eastern Ukraine and Southern Ukraine. A senior Ukrainian military intelligence official said on Sunday that Russia appeared to be focused on maintaining control over the occupied territories in southern and eastern Ukraine and dividing Ukraine in two rather than taking over the entire country, which would be a major shift in Russian policy. strategy, as his troops failed to take Kyiv after more than a month of fighting.

On Friday, Russia proposed a change in strategy, saying it was focusing on “liberating” the Donbass in eastern Ukraine, which has been partially controlled by Russian-backed rebels since 2014. The Donbass, an apparent troop withdrawal from former Russia, has broader goals but raises concerns about a divided Ukraine. After more than four weeks of conflict, Russia has failed to capture a major Ukrainian city, and Moscow said on Friday it was scaling back its ambitions to focus on the security of the Donbass in eastern Ukraine, where Russian-backed separatists have been battling fight. Ukrainian army for the past eight years. On Friday, Russian military leaders said they would concentrate their military forces and make a clear change in tactics to free eastern Donbass from Ukrainian control.

The head of Ukrainian military intelligence said he would soon expand guerrilla warfare in Russian-occupied territory. A senior Ukrainian military intelligence official also warned that any attempt by Russia to maintain control over Ukraine’s territory would lead to an ongoing uprising. Ukraine’s military intelligence chief said in a statement that the vote to join Russia was an “attempt to create North and South Korea in Ukraine” and predicted Ukrainian forces would repel Russian forces, according to Reuters. Russian President Vladimir Putin “will try to draw a line between occupied and non-occupied parts of Ukraine”, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence service, the intelligence arm of the Russian Defense Ministry, said on Sunday.

As fighting intensifies in Ukraine and a senior military leader in the country warned that Russian troops could try to divide the country in two, U.S. officials on Sunday quickly clarified President Biden’s summary judgment against the Russian president. Putin said regime change in Moscow was not on Washington’s agenda. Senior U.S. officials sought to clarify on Sunday that the U.S. had not changed the policy of the Russian regime after President Joe Biden said after a speech in Poland on Saturday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin “cannot continue to lose power.” U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Washington had no strategy for regime change in Russia, telling reporters in Jerusalem that U.S. President Joe Biden simply meant that Putin should not be “allowed to wage war on Ukraine or anyone else.” The Kremlin said “it’s not Joe Biden’s or the Americans’ business to decide who stays in power in Russia” as U.S. officials sought to return to Biden’s comments.

US officials tried to get back to US President Joe Biden’s words, with a White House spokesman saying they were not a call to remove Russian leader Vladimir Putin, but rather meant that he should not have been in power. or region. Budanov said he believes Vladimir Putin has rethought his full-employment plan as he failed to quickly take Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and topple Volodymyr Zelensky’s government.

Earlier, in President Vladimir Putin’s often angry nationwide 65-minute speech at the Kremlin office, Putin lashed out at Ukraine’s former Soviet neighbor as a failed state and a “puppet” of the West, repeatedly suggesting that Ukraine was essentially part of Moscow. . After days of false claims of Ukrainian aggression, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a belligerent one-hour speech on Ukraine on Monday that effectively denied Ukrainian statehood and called NATO a direct threat to Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into Ukraine on Monday, hours after he formally recognized the independence of two Moscow-backed breakaway regions in the country’s east.

When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the recognition of two regions in eastern Ukraine — Donetsk and Luhansk — as independent states, many around the world wondered when exactly Ukraine gained its independence. It is worth mentioning here that Putin-led Russia launched an all-out war against Ukraine nearly two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree recognizing the independence of the separatist Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Vladimir Putin recognized Luhansk and Donetsk, two self-proclaimed eastern republics, shortly before the Ukrainian war began, and the Ukrainian capital has been at odds with pro-Russian forces since 2014. President Vladimir Putin ordered its split in two Russian troops backed Ukraine’s rebel region, Ukraine, on Monday, ignoring threats of Western sanctions that could spark a potentially catastrophic war with Kiev.

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