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© Aleksandr Gusev/SOPA Images/LightRocketMikhail Podoliak
The classified component details attack plans on Russia and a weaponry wish list, according to Mikhail Podoliak.
The secret component of the "victory plan" unveiled by Vladimir Zelensky on Wednesday includes
Kiev's targets for long-range attacks on Russian soil, Mikhail Podoliak, a top aide to the Ukrainian leader, has revealed.
The parts of the plan that were not disclosed to the public consist of a list of targets, a plan of action, and a detailing of the weapons needed to carry out such attacks against Russia, Podoliak told RBC Ukraine in an interview on Wednesday.
"There, in the appendices, it is precisely said what kind of weapons should be used to destroy logistics very far from the front line... what targets will be hit and how many weapons are needed for this."
Zelensky revealed the so-called "victory plan" earlier in the day in an address to the country's parliament. The Ukrainian leader toured Western capitals in recent weeks
to show the plan to his backers in private and try to generate support for it.
The public part of the plan largely consists of a number of demands made of Ukraine's Western supporters. Kiev requested an immediate invitation to join NATO, a lifting of restrictions on the use of Western-supplied long-range weapons for strikes on Russia, as well as
the deployment of "a comprehensive non-nuclear strategic deterrence package" on Ukrainian soil.
The plan, particularly its cornerstone NATO accession demand, appears to have
elicited a mixed reaction in the West. Washington's envoy to NATO, Julianne Smith, for instance, said that
while the bloc remains committed to Kiev's "irreversible path of membership," actual accession was not a "short-term" matter.Moscow dismissed the plan as a set of "incoherent slogans," with Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova condemning it as "bloody foam on the lips of a neo-Nazi killer."She also dismissed the NATO aspirations long-touted by Kiev, suggesting
the only place the West actually deems fit for Ukraine in its "security architecture" is "in a coffin and Ukrainian citizens in graves."
Comment: And Moscow's
response? Zakarova goes all out! bites back!
Moscow has dismissed Vladimir Zelensky's much-touted eight-point 'victory plan' as nothing but a "plan for the misfortune of Ukraine," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said in a statement.
Spokeswoman Zakharova responded to the five points of Zelensky's plan at a press conference, calling them nothing more than a "set of incoherent slogans" and "bloody foam on the lips of a neo-Nazi killer."
Commenting on Kiev's "hysteria" about being invited into NATO, the she alleged:
"The only place the West sees for Ukraine in its "security architecture" is "in a coffin and Ukrainian citizens in graves. That is why they brought this clown to power, who was supposed to finish off Ukraine as a state and kill as many Ukrainians as possible."
She also questioned Zelensky's intent to strengthen Ukrainian defenses by "targeted operations in specific places." The spokeswoman asked why the Ukrainian leader shied away from naming the places and said:
"Kiev has been "pushing NATO members towards a direct conflict" with Russia by insisting on obtaining permission to use long-range weapons on Russian territory.
"Taken together, all of those points and secret sub-points are not a 'plan' for Zelensky's victory. This is a plan for the misfortune of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people, yet another extortion of money and a presentation of [Kiev's] terrorist capabilities."
"Today, Zelensky has finally proven to everyone that he hates Ukrainians to such an extent that can be described as Ukrainophobia."
Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has responded to Zelensky's plan by calling it nothing more than a roadmap for the continuation of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. He insisted that the only way to achieve peace was for the Ukrainian leader to "sober up" and "reflect on the causes which have led to the Ukraine conflict."
One thing leads to another and don't mess with Russia I reckon.
BK