Zelensky is, in my opinion, still a puppet of the West. Largely the US and UK. He’s a proxy. So, is the question really does Zelensky want peace or war? Or is the question, Do Zelensky’s masters want peace or war?
This article looks at some Ukrainian propaganda attempts to justify still more war.
The first is the story of the Chinese soldiers. On April 9, Zelensky announced that the Ukrainian armed forces had captured two Chinese soldiers fighting in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. That provided the plotline for a story that seems to be based on the truth. Zelensky then said that Ukrainian intelligence “believe that there are many more” Chinese who are “fighting against Ukrainians on the territory of Ukraine.” That part may also be true.
If the presence of Chinese soldiers in Ukraine was a policy of the Chinese government, that could be a big story, since it could escalate the war. But if, as it seems, the two Chinese citizens are mercenaries, then they are no different from the tens of thousands of other mercenaries from other countries who are fighting on both sides in Ukraine. The small truth does not justify the demand for a U.S. response that the big production seems meant to compel.
The second story is the Russian missile strike in the city of Sumy in Ukraine that left several people dead. This story, too, is based on fact. The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed that it carried out the precision strike using two hypersonic Iskander missiles.
The Russian Defense Ministry says that the missile strike was not a deliberate attack on civilians but a precision strike on “a meeting of the command staff of the Seversk operational-tactical group” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces that was being held at the congress center of Sumy State University.
There is no reason to accept Russia’s word: except that it is not only Russia’s word. A number of Ukrainian officials have given supporting testimony. According to the Ukrainian news site Strana, “more and more information is emerging from various sources that the target of the strike was Ukrainian military personnel.” Several sources, including a Ukrainian member of parliament, a former member of parliament and the mayor of nearby Konotop, say the Russian missiles struck an award ceremony for the Ukrainian armed forces 117the territorial defense brigade, to which civilians were also invited.
Some of these sources have blamed Sumy Oblast Governor Volodymyr Artiukh for organizing or promoting the ceremony, despite having been warned not to do so. Confirming that there was an award ceremony on that day, Artiukh defended himself, saying, “It wasn’t my initiative” but admitting that he was invited. On April 15, Zelensky’s office announced that Artyukh had been fired.
War propaganda is a given. I’m questioning who is the real party behind the propaganda. Maybe it is Zelensky and his own spin doctors. Or, perhaps, Zelensky and his spin doctors have outside help?