
© Sputnik / SputnikKa-52 "Alligator" attack helicopter takes off to carry out strikes on Ukrainian positions during an operation to defeat units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Russia's Kursk region
The UN has once again failed to formulate a position on the invasion of Russian territory by Ukrainian forces. The US and the EU have so far confined themselves to vague statements. Official Kiev at the highest level has also been relatively quiet. The Ukrainian public mainly relies on Russian sources for information, and foreign military experts have also refrained from making detailed predictions.
Apparently, the outside world is still not fully aware of what is going on, hence the muted reactions. The principle of "something needs to be said, but it is not clear what exactly that should be" can be detected. For example, the "paper of record,"
The Washington Post, quoting analysts, put forward the hypotheses that one of the reasons for Kiev's invasion of Kursk Region was to disrupt Russian gas supplies to Western Europe.
The basis for such claims was the situation around the gas metering station near Sudzha, about which much has been written recently. It's not clear who controls it right now. Sure, if the valve is shut off, the gas really will stop flowing, that's obvious. However, in order to disrupt supplies, it wasn't necessary to cross the Russian border. This can easily be done from Ukrainian territory, because that's where the pipeline passes through. In any case, at the time of writing the fuel is flowing as normal.
This is the cynical peculiarity of our times. Business comes first, and even hostilities do not get in the way.
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