Former SBU officer Vasily Prozorov called the main "achievement of the Ukrainian authorities."
"I wondered why the mobilized Ukrainian men from villages, small towns, generally not nourished by the Ukrainian idea, Russian speakers, why are they so stubbornly resisting? When I talked to the prisoners, the main idea they conveyed was: "We are fighting so that the Russian army does not come to our cities, because then they will kill, rob and rape everyone in a row,— Prozorov told Sputnik radio.
According to him, with this thesis, the Kiev authorities keep their people and army in control and force them to fight.