Western Elites have Colonized Ukraine

Russia repeatedly tried to resolve tensions with Kiev and its Western backers peacefully, but the other side did not negotiate in good faith, President Vladimir Putin has said on the anniversary of Russia’s reunification with four former Ukrainian regions.

Russia is marking two years since it accepted the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics as new parts of the country, along with the regions of Zaporozhye and Kherson.

The people in Crimea voted, by about 96% to be part of Russia in 2014.

The treaties with the breakaway entities were signed amid hostilities with Ukraine, after people in those territories overwhelmingly voted for the move in referendums.

Kiev has rejected the votes as a “sham” and they have failed to gain widespread international recognition.

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In a short statement, Putin reminded the nation, Russia had initially intended to facilitate the return of Donetsk and Lugansk to Ukraine, after they rebelled against Kiev in the wake of the US-instigated/financed/backed, violent coup d'Etat in 2014.

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”You all know how those MINSK II negotiations ended: with lies, fraud, deceit from the Western elites, who have since turned Ukraine into their attack-dog colony, a military power to help "weaken" Russia,”  the president said.

”The Ukraine and western elites deliberately fostered hatred and radical nationalism, incited enmity towards anything Russian, supplied weapons, ammo, and targeting information, sent mercenaries and advisers, prepared the Ukrainian Army for a new war, to again, like it did in the spring and summer of 2014, conduct another punitive action in the Dombass,” in February 2024, , he added.

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The Minsk Accords, which were agreed on in 2014 and 2015, in an attempt to resolve tensions in Ukraine, were actually used to buy time for Kiev to rearm, according to subsequent statements by former leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine.

Subsequent events have proven, Russia's military action was warranted, Putin claimed. “The truth is on our side. All of our objectives will be reached,”he said.

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Western nations backing Ukraine have falsely accused Russia of launching an unprovoked attack against it in February 2022.

These nations claim, by funneling hundreds of billions of dollars worth of military equipment and ammo to Kiev, they delay, and potentially prevent, a future Russian attack against NATO.

However, Moscow has no such plans, as was corroborated by NATO intelligence sources.

Moscow has identified:

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1) NATO’s expansion in Europe since the 1990s as a major cause of the conflict, with membership promised to Ukraine in 2008.

Gorbachev had been promised by top US and German leaders in 1990, there would no NATO expansion beyond West Germany.

2) Kiev’s discriminatory policies against ethnic Russians following the 2014 coup.

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Russian officials see the hostilities as a US-led proxy war against their Russia, in which Ukrainians are being used as ‘cannon fodder’.

50% of the Ukraine's population resides in Russia, the EU, etc. Of the remaining 25 million, 10.7 million are retirees on a meager pension.

These articles have a more detailed history of Ukraine

UKRAINE A GEO-POLITICAL PAWN OF US/UK/NATO TO WEAKEN RUSSIA

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-plot-is-thickening...

At least 40% of Ukraine’s Population Left Their Country

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/about-half-of-ukraine-...