Catalogue · ID 247

Стрелков: Спусковой крючок войны нажал я

Author: «Новая газета»; по интервью газете «Завтра»
Year of publication: 2014
Published in: «Новая газета»; по интервью газете «Завтра»
Describes Russian colonization of peoples: Ukrainians
Publication rights: not allowed (material of an organisation or media outlet under copyright (novayagazeta[.]ru))

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Where we got it

Original source: https://web.archive.org/web/20260419140830/https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2014/11/20/108018-strelkov-spuskovoy-kryuchok-voyny-nazhal-ya

Where the knowledge base cites it

This material is cited in 3 places.

Campaigns

• Continuation of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Aggression in the Donbas (2014–2015)

  Had our detachment not crossed the border, it would all have ended as in Kharkiv, as in Odesa"

Procedures

• Continuation of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Aggression in the Donbas (2014–2015) — technique Proxy War

  The seizure of Sloviansk by an armed group that had crossed the border, and the formation of the separatist "DNR"/"LNR": the detachment's commander openly admitted that "in practice it was our detachment that set in motion the flywheel of the war that is still going on," and that "it was I, after all, who pulled the trigger of the war"

  In the spring and summer of 2014 the same formations tried to take Mariupol: "those advancing on Mariupol were mainly 'vacationers'," that is, Russian soldiers, and about the outcome the same commander says that after their departure "both the front line and the opportunities remained shaky"

• Continuation of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Aggression in the Donbas (2014–2015) — technique Military Intervention

  When they left, both the front line and the opportunities became precarious"