RESISTANCE FACTORS AND SPECIAL FORCES AREAS UKRAINE
US operations to destabilize Ukraine and remove it from Moscow were already planned in the initial stages of the Cold War.
According to American analysts, an anti-Soviet uprising would have enjoyed widespread support in several areas of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the irredentist separation line would follow the same border that today separates Ukraine from the Donbass People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk (DPR and LPR) and Crimea.
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