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Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to be preparing for war with NATO forces under new military decrees he signed, while Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned the West that a conflict is "inevitable" if he sends troops to Ukraine.
As reported by the Institute for the Study of War, the Russian president's new military decrees show that he is preparing in the long term for a possible full-scale war with NATO.
The two decrees
In particular, according to Newsweek, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that on Monday, the Russian president signed decrees reorganizing Russia's military and administrative structure. A decree strips Russia's Northern Fleet, which was previously in charge of the territory in the Northwestern Federal District, of its status as a "strategic territorial unit" or joint headquarters.
The next decree officially re-establishes the Leningrad Military District and the Moscow Military District. The Leningrad Military District takes control of most of the territories that were once under Russia's Northern Fleet, and the Moscow Military District takes control of most of the territories that were previously under the Western Military District, the group of experts said in the analysis. the end of the war in Ukraine.
However, in the second decree signed by Putin, Russia also includes the four regions of Ukraine that Putin declared annexed in the fall of 2022, the Kherson, Zaporizhia, Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as Crimea, which it has held since year 2014.
ISW Forecasts
"The inclusion of occupied and unoccupied parts of Ukrainian territory further suggests that Russia maintains maximalist goals in Ukraine and seeks to fully absorb all five of these Ukrainian territories into the Russian Federation," ISW added.
The re-creation of the Moscow Military District and the Leningrad Military District "supports the parallel goals of consolidating control over Russian operations in Ukraine in the short and medium term and also in the long term of preparing for a possible full-scale conventional war there the future against NATO", it is further said.
Russian military analyst Yuri Fedorov previously told Russian research website Agentstvo that the re-creation of the Leningrad military district suggests Russia is preparing for potential conflicts with the Baltic states and NATO.
The Leningrad Military District, which is located near Finland and the Baltic states, a new member of NATO, is a key part of Russia's armed forces that oversees parts of the country's defense strategy in Russia's western region.
Warnings from the Kremlin
For their part, Kremlin voices regularly warn of a future war, and Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, warned NATO member states after Emmanuel Macron's statements that sending troops to Ukraine is not in the interests of Western countries. .
Relations between Washington and other NATO member countries and Moscow are more tense than ever after the invasion of Ukraine, while in his statements Emmanuel Macron referred to the issue of the deployment of Western military forces on Ukrainian soil, stressing that in this stage there is no consensus on such a thing, but nothing can be excluded in the future.
Dmitry Peskov responded to the French president by saying that such an event "is not at all in the interest of these countries, they should know that."
"The mere fact that the possibility of sending NATO countries to Ukraine is being discussed is a very important new element."
He noted that the Kremlin "knows very well Mr. Macron's position on the need to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia."
Asked whether the presence of NATO troops in Ukraine would lead to an immediate confrontation between the alliance and Russia, Peskov said: "In this case we should not talk about a possibility, but about the inevitability" of confrontation.
"And these countries should ask themselves if the confrontation is in their interest and, above all, if it is in the interest of the citizens," he added.
NATO member countries do not agree with Macron's "line".
However, a number of leaders of NATO member countries disagree with Macron's line, clarifying that there are currently no plans to send troops to Ukraine.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said of Macron's comments after the end of the international conference in support of Ukraine, which was held in Paris on Monday, that the leaders agreed that "everyone must do more for Ukraine" but that "one thing it is clear, "there will be no ground troops from European countries or NATO".
A similar position was taken by Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristerson, who has ruled out sending troops to Ukraine for now.
"Right now we are fully engaged in sending advanced materials from Sweden to Ukraine in various ways, as are many other countries. So this is a completely different matter," he told Swedish broadcaster SVT.
"There are no corresponding requests from Ukraine either. This issue is not relevant", he added.
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