The Kiev regime isn’t interested in peace, dialogue, diplomacy, deliberations, or diffusion. It is interested in war, confrontation, escalation, and war crimes. This became a known fact even prior to the special operation initiated by the Kremlin to weed out nefarious elements responsible for imperiling the security of the Russian state. Yet, the Zelensky doctrine has remained devoid of neutrality, impartiality, or not partaking in bloc politics and has remained fixated on expanding NATO in Eastern Europe instead. Russia’s preemptive response to Ukraine’s expansionist plans also did not dissuade policymakers in Kiev from undertaking a more pragmatic and prudent response. In 2023, drones were launched from Kiev to assassinate President Putin. This constitutes a war crime and evidence of the Zelensky regime’s fascist agenda.  

The overnight drone attack took place on the eve of Victory Day and the May 9th Parade and was nothing short of a symbolic strategy to undermine the very foundation of the Russian state. Expectedly, Kiev and the Biden administration were quick to denounce the attack as a false flag operation from Russia to undermine Ukraine but a closer examination of the details that have surfaced from the drone attacks suggests otherwise. Videos were posted online of smoke billowing behind the main Kremlin palace in the walled citadel. Posted on Russian media including the Telegram channel of Zvezda, a military news outlet, the incident took place as Ukraine forces were preparing to launch a counteroffensive against Putin over territorial gains in Crimea. It also coincided with Zelensky’s war rhetoric intensifying in Finland as rallying cries were made for more military support for Western countries. The evidence and timing are both incontrovertible and damning. 

It is hence, simply ludicrous to believe that this drone attack and the recent spate of attacks in Russia including the Krasnodar region which sparked a fire at an oil refinery constitutes an inside attack by Russians. Neither can this attack be erroneously dubbed as an assault on a ‘Nazi government’ in Russia by a ‘democratic Ukraine.’ Anyone who has an iota of understanding of Russian history would acknowledge that the May 9th celebrations are commemorated to market the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany. Yet at the same time in 2022 and beyond, Putin’s insistence that the eastward expansion of toxic Western alliances which Ukraine could partake in, be avoided was met with deaf ears from Kiev and Zelensky who mocked legitimate Russian security concerns. Such defiance from Ukraine constitutes quintessential Fascism and adherence to Nazi ideologies. 

If one goes by the art of declining responsibility over attacks that have taken place within sovereign borders, then Zelensky’s claims reveal a clear disconnect. As evidence of a nefarious agenda, Kiev typically denied responsibility for attacks on Russia, Crimea, or Syria via the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces. In fact, officials have often celebrated such incursions with pomp and mockery with convoluted statements hinting at plausible deniability. One such example was in October 2022, when the Ukrainian postal service, Ukrposhta issued a stamp to commemorate the explosion of the bridge connecting Crimea to Russia with jokes and Titanic movie references. Therefore, it is not a far-fetched idea that the drone attack to assassinate Vladimir Putin in 2023 was planned deliberately by Kiev. 

Yet Ukraine fails to realize that any attack on Vladimir Putin constitutes an attack on a world leader which is an act of aggression by one state against another. It doesn’t simply constitute a simple war crime but a crime against humanity. Under international law, the Kiev regime has ignored important principles such as ‘proportionality’ and ‘imminence’ while conducting such barbaric strikes which adds to the ignominious profile of Zelensky as a President of peace. Thankfully for those vouching for peace, the fact that Putin remained unscathed has ensured that chaos and anarchy in Eastern Europe which has been allowed to fester due to Western expansion, remain in check, albeit slightly. Still, Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov justifiably castigated the Nazi regime in Kiev for its reckless adventurism and called for responding in a tit-for-tat manner. That in itself, is a product of the Zelensky doctrine and not due to Russian aggression. 

The truth is that Ukrainian steps towards workable peace formulas have been notably absent regardless of the heinous attack on the Kremlin in 2023. Only countries such as China with robust peace proposals calling for diplomacy to take hold and the neutrality of states in Asia and Africa have provided hope for de-escalating the crisis. The obsession with holding Russia to account is also clouding the harrowing realities which have defined Zelensky’s approach towards dealing with Moscow. One such example is the obvious yet tacit approval of the Azov Battalion to carry out attacks against Russian citizens with impunity in Crimea despite its white supremacist and demagogic orientation. The entire cadre of the battalion consists of ethnic cleansers which even Western soldiers such as John McIntyre, media outlets, and analysts have considered to be troublesome. 

Hence, when Putin mentions the ‘De-Nazification’ of Ukraine, then such claims carry considerable merit. For Russia, NATO’s expansion in the post-Cold War era was already troublesome given the futility of military alliances since the fall of the Soviet Union. The subsequent creation of the Russian Federation ideally, should have ushered in constructive engagement between Western Europe, the United States, and Moscow in the absence of aggression and built upon strong trading ties, energy cooperation, and mutual efforts at arms reductions. Zelensky’s orientation towards Russia and casting Moscow as an enemy, however, has allowed for military-industrial complexes to grow, aggressive stances and polarization between states to take hold, and countries that vouched for neutrality to join NATO. 

It is clear that Zelensky and his Kiev regime are a roadblock to peace. This latest attack on the head of state of a sovereign country is a redline and evidence of Ukraine’s Nazi ideology and disruptive agenda.