States are based on the social contract of citizens who live in a certain territory within defined borders. The protection of citizens’ lives and the inviolability of borders are key functions of the government. The authorities of any country, except Russia. Russia does not care about borders and citizens. As it turned out, not only the borders and citizens of neighbouring countries. She does not care about her own borders and her own citizens. Since the beginning of his reign, Putin has demonstrated a blasphemous attitude towards the right of people to self-determination and the right of independent countries to sovereignty. In 2000, Putin launched a genocidal war against independent Ichkeria, in 2008 he occupied and deprived Georgia of part of its territory. In 2014, he started a bloody war against Ukraine. At the same time, the Kremlin dwarf demanded to recognize “realities on the ground”, not internationally recognized interstate borders.
On 6 August 2024, within the framework of a defensive war, Ukrainian troops launched a ground campaign in the territory of the Kursk region, from which attacks were systematically carried out on the territory of Ukraine. And as it turned out, Russia, which is used to encroaching on other people’s borders, is unable to protect its own. About a thousand square kilometres of Russian territory on more than a forty-kilometre section of the Russian-Ukrainian front with a depth of up to 20 kilometres were outside the control of the central Russian leadership. The authorities fled, the border guards and conscripts put up for protection, were unable to resist and surrendered en masse, or fled in panic, falling under the blows of their own frightened soldiers, tens of thousands of citizens without any support and organizational actions of the authorities were forced to leave their homes in disorder, those that remained, very calmly accepted the appearance of the Ukrainian army.
The central government and the military leadership showed the greatest helplessness. Putin tried to abstract himself from the events in Kurshchyna for as long as possible, lowering the resolution of the situation to the grassroots level, and the military leadership habitually lied that by the evening of the first day, the unknown DRG would be destroyed. After more than a week of traditional lies, the situation became more complicated. Russian Citizens felt their complete defenselessness and the uselessness of the authorities, the borders, which have been inviolable since World War II, have turned out to be a passage yard. The mothers of the children of conscripts, whom Putin solemnly promised not to involve in hostilities, are desperately searching for their children, in the hope that some of them managed to survive and were captured.
The whole of Russia is surprised to note that Putin is indifferent to both foreign borders and his own, and even more indifferent to the lives of citizens. Both civilians, who were left to fend for themselves, and military men, whom he drives to slaughter in frontal attacks on Donbas fortified areas, instead of returning sovereignty to their own borders. A maniacal desire for “territorial growth” in exchange for the worthless lives of citizens.
For tens of years, Russians have been fed information scum about how Putin cares about the life and safety of the “people of Donbas” and now they can be convinced that if Putin does not care about the fate of the people of Donetsk, what is the fate of the people of Suji.
Even more interesting is the real answer to Putin’s pseudo-historical delusion about peoples and borders. As it turned out, Ukrainian troops entered the territories where Ukrainians traditionally lived, which have organizational and legal implications from various forms of Ukrainian statehood and which were illegally, without any legitimate international legal grounds, annexed by Russia. At least the district of Suzhi, which is familiar to everyone, was part of the Chernihiv principality since the 12th century, and later the successor of the Kyiv state – the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and only at the beginning of the 17th century it illegally, temporarily moved to Moscow. The unnaturalness of the imperial border, both on the outer perimeters and inside the administrative units randomly cut by the empire, which do not correspond to the boundaries of the ethnic settlement of peoples, becomes a serious challenge.
The Kursk precedent will have significant consequences for Russia, whose citizens have felt the vulnerability of their own borders and the authorities’ indifference to the fate of citizens.
However, the “counter-terrorist operation” regime that Putin introduced seems to answer many questions. The first thing FSB agents do in the front-line areas is to silence citizens by unlocking convenient messengers and YouTube. At present, groups of Rosguards, FSB officers and Chechen collaborators are unable to resist the Ukrainian army, are busy looting and intimidating the population and, it seems, in the tradition of their predecessors, are ready to commit bloody crimes against the civilian population under the guise of the Ukrainian military.
The organizers of the massacre in Buch on the territory of Ukraine are impatient to resort to terrorist actions, to organize actions of intimidation and terror of civilian residents under the guise of their elimination. The FSB has already filled the information space with rumors about the presence of special forces in almost all countries of the world and neighbouring planetary systems, provoking a huge wave of panic, friendly fire and fear to the point of paralysis of the authorities.
Having opened a Pandora’s box, Putin’s regime continues to devour a country that until recently had secure borders and disenfranchised citizens. Now, lawless citizens have been added to the transit yard along the perimeter of the longest borders in the world.
