The, Cyprus-based German-language media outlet Apolut has published an interview with German businessman Dieter Staudt, who reported on how the Kiev regime had been planning an invasion of the Donbass in 2022. Although this is now universally known, albeit censored by the MSM, the singularity of this interview is that Staudt is German, had a business in East Ukraine with 6 employees, speaks Russian and was a direct witness of how events developed in 2014. Staudt is not a Putin fan. As a matter of fact, Staudt had a bad experience with Russia when he had a firm in St. Petersburg, and the Russian authorities confiscated the firm, as he said, “with Mafia methods.”
“The Ukrainian military was planning an attack to conquer the Donbass People’s Republic on March 6, 2022 and wanted to expel or even eliminate the Russian inhabitants of the Donbass,” Dieter Staudt told Apolut reporter Thomas Mayer. The entrepreneur lived in eastern Ukraine from 2011 to mid-2022. He learned about Kiev’s attack plans directly from Ukrainian soldiers. According to Staudt, Russia had to react to this threat and so Russia entered the war on February 24, 2022. “Ukraine wanted a war with Russia and was not an innocent victim,” concludes Staudt. That contradicts the victim narrative used to justify the financing and arming of the Ukrainian army by the NATO states.
“I witnessed the entire development that led to the Ukrainian civil war in the Donbass from 2014 and to the war with Russia from 2022. At the end of April 2014, under the interim President Oleksandr Turchynov, whom I know personally, the Ukrainian civil war in Donbass began. The Ukrainian army fired on Ukrainians of Russian ethnicity, on residents of the autonomous Ukrainian regions of Lugansk and Donetsk. These two autonomous republics became sovereign and independent from Ukraine by referendum on May 11, 2014. ...
“During regular phone calls with friends in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, we were informed about the severity of the bombardments. Through friendly contacts with Ukrainian residents of Crimea, I know that these people welcome belonging to the Russian Federation!
“After the Maidan coup, Kiev planned to ban the Russian language, which was an affront to the Russian-speaking Ukrainians. After Crimea seceded from Ukraine in a referendum on March 14, 2014, the Ukrainian government wanted to prevent a similar development in Donbass. In mid-April 2014, Ukraine’s interim President Oleksandr Turchynov sent military forces into the Donbass with the intention of enforcing the ultimatum he had issued to the so-called separatists. At the end of April 2014, the Ukrainian army fired on Ukrainian citizens of Russian ethnicity and started the civil war. Nevertheless, the Donbass republics seceded.”
In conclusion, author Mayer wrote: “Dieter Staudt’s statements make it clear that Ukraine was not an innocent victim, but an aggressor against the Donbass republics. The victim narrative is a product of NATO propaganda to justify the complete financing of the Ukrainian army by NATO to the population.”
