A new school textbook that compares Russia’s war in Ukraine to the Soviet struggle against Nazis and says that Russia was “forced” to send the army to Ukraine, presented in Moscow on Monday.
President Vladimir Putin called the war, which Moscow officially calls a “special military campaign”, described a difficult but necessary fight against Ukraine, a western and NATO -backed Ukraine. He says that it is part of a widespread existence fight against the collapse West who is trying to weaken and fragment Russia.
On its behalf, Ukraine and its western colleagues say that Russia is fighting a cruel and unprovoked war to achieve the region only.
The three -volume “Russia’s military history” was edited by Putin’s colleague Vladimir Medinski, who led a delegation failing peace -making with Ukraine in 2022 in the early months of the war, and already the main of Russia The article is co-authors. Textbook of History.
The third section, which is likely to be dismissed as a promotion by Ukraine, is designed to teach children aged 15 and above.
It explains why the Kremlin believes that the war began and how it is being fought, it highlights what he considers the bravery events of the battlefield, and describes how modern Russian army sometimes The Soviet used techniques used by the Soviet army during World War II.
In a chapter called “professionalism, insufficient and courage: Russian soldiers in a special military campaign”, the book tells school children that Russia was “forced” to send its soldiers to Ukraine in 2022.
It states that West ignored Russia’s safety concerns for years – the reference to the east of the NATO military alliance, and the book was described in 2014 as the Western -backed coup of the Russia -friendly Ukrainian President, Which changed Ukraine. In a “invasive anti-Russian bridge”.
NATO and Ukraine refuse to be a threat to Russia.
Speaking at the Tass News Conference to discuss the new book, Ivan Basic, a military historian affiliated to the Russian army, said Western and Ukrainian works have made war “unavoidable”.
“The most important task was to explain the forced nature of the special military campaign conducted by the Russian Federation,” he said, “he said.
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