Ukrainian General: "No Russian Troops Are Fighting Against Us"

"Ukraine’s top general is contradicting allegations by the Obama Administration and by his own Ukrainian Government, by saying that no Russian troops are fighting against the Ukrainian Government’s forces in the formerly Ukrainian, but now separatist, area, where the Ukrainian civil war is being waged.

The Chief of Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, General Viktor Muzhenko, is saying, in that news-report, which is dated on Thursday January 29th, that the only Russian citizens who are fighting in the contested region, are residents in that region, or of Ukraine, and also some Russian citizens (and this does not deny that perhaps some of other countries’ citizens are fighting there, inasmuch as American mercenaries have already been noted to have been participating on the Ukrainian Government’s side), who “are members of illegal armed groups,” meaning fighters who are not paid by any government, but instead are just “individual citizens” (as opposed to foreign-government-paid ones). General Muzhenko also says, emphatically, that the “Ukrainian army is not fighting with the regular units of the Russian army.”

In other words: He is explicitly and clearly denying the very basis for the EU’s sanctions against Russia, and for the U.S.’s sanctions against Russia: all of the sanctions against Russia are based on the falsehood that Ukraine is fighting against “the regular units of the Russian army” — i.e., against the Russian-Government-controlled-and-trained fighting forces....."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40860.htm

Has the Ukrainian General's statement revealed the lie to the United States and the Kiev Junta's own propaganda?

If what General Muzhenko says is indeed true (why would he lie?), then the entire basis for the economic sanctions that are in force against Russia have no legitimacy and should therefore be immediately removed and an apology insisted upon. Putin should then legally pursue compensation against the perpetrators for the fraud on behalf of all those who suffered its consequences.

If the General is lying then he should be fired, for asserting what he has just asserted.