Russian invasion of Ukraine/2014-2021
https://twitter.com/Steverino949899/status/1746235109521379433
In my world, words have meaning, and relevant facts drive conclusions.
1. Minsk 1991 officially sets Ukraine’s borders. 2. Budapest Memorandum (1994); Ukraine gave up its nukes. 3. Ukraine first enquires into becoming an EU member (2002) 4. Putin's poisoning of Yushchenko. 5. Putin's attempt to install Yanukovych by rigging the election 6. The Orange Revolution 7. Election of Yushchenko in a free and fair election 8. Yanukovych wins Presidency on platform seeking EU membership 8a, Yanukovych disarms Ukraine. 9. Yanukovych negotiates agreement with EU, near finalization 10. Putin puts horse's head at the foot of Yanukovych's bed 11. Yanukovych tears up EU agreement 12. The people protest (the Maidan) 13. Yanukovych orders security forces to "shoot to kill" 14. Over 100 people are murdered by Yanukovych's forces 15. The Rada is outraged, and seeks to impeach Yanukovych 16. Yanukovych flees to Moscow 17. Yanukovych removed from office in 328-0 vote 18. Caretaker President appointed by Rada 19. Elections are held within three months 20. Petro Poroshenko is elected in first round with 54.7% of the vote. 21. Yanukovych's mansion is exposed to the public
I'm not seeing anything that looks like a coup here. Yanukovych could have fought impeachment, but he abdicated his office. Every step of the removal process was in accordance with Ukrainian law.
A coup is defined as "the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group." The Rada did not use force to remove Yanukovych. The government was not overthrown. And the Rada represented every oblast in Ukraine. Ergo, your first "fact" is false. THERE WAS NO COUP.
22. Putin's "little green men" seized the building of the Supreme Council of Crimea and the building of the Council of Ministers in Simferopol.
Putin's thugs used lethal force. A small group, overthrowing the existing government of Crimea. NOW, THAT IS A COUP.
23. Igor "Strelkov" Girkin and a crack brigade of Russian troops instigated a violent coup in eastern Ukraine. https://youtube.com/watch?v=EgjH_voWIG0. 24. A Russian brigade, on average, consists of 5,000 troops.
THERE WAS NO CIVIL WAR IN THE DONBAS.
25. Alexander Borodai, former 'Prime Minister' of the DPR, said 50,000 "Russian volunteers" had fought in the first five months of the 2014 war.
THAT LOOKS LIKE AN INVASION.
26. Russian-backed separatists seized Ukrainian government buildings in the Donbas and declared the Donetsk and Luhansk republics (DPR and LPR) as independent states.
WADDAYA KNOW! THAT LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER COUP.
27. By lAugust 2014, Ukraine had re-taken most separatist-held territory and nearly regained control of the Russia–Ukraine border. 28. In response, Russia sent troops, tanks and artillery into the Donbas.
Imagine how ruzzia would howl if NATO sent troops into Ukraine!
29. The War of the Donbas was waged, with 50,000 ruzzian troops fighting on the separatist side. 30. Battle of Ilovisk. Ukraine forces in Ilovaisk outnumbered by enemy by 18 times, https://unian.info/war/1111788-combined-russian-separatist-forces-overwhelm-ukrainian-troops-by-18-times-in-ilovaisk-in-2014.html Russia was waging war with overwhelming force. 31. Minsk 2014 (Sept.) established a truce 32. ruzzia reloaded, and repeatedly broke the truce. 33. Heavy fighting resumed in January 2015, during which ruzzia captured Donetsk Airport. 34. Minsk 2015 (12 Feb. 2015) 35. ruzzia deployed "a large amount of artillery and multiple rocket launcher systems around Debaltseve", and was responsible for shelling of the city. 36. Petr Poroshenko ordered his troops to observe the ceasefire IF the ruzzian side did, as well. 37. During the course of 15 Feb, shelling struck Ukrainian positions, and separatist forces made multiple attacks upon the city from the west and east, storming government positions in the nearby village of Chornukhyne.
I don't see how Minsk 2015 is in any way binding on the Ukrainians, as the invasion of Debaltseve was a material breach.
38. Both sides built extensive trenches, resulting in static trench warfare. 39. In 2017, on average a Ukrainian soldier died in combat every three days, with an estimated 40,000 separatist and 6,000 Russian troops in the region. 40. By the end of 2017, OSCE observers had counted around 30,000 people in military gear crossing from Russia at the two border checkpoints it was allowed to monitor. The OSCE also documented military convoys crossing from Russia covertly. OSCE catches Russia bringing war to Donbas by night, https://khpg.org//en/1534013815
"The use of force abroad, according to existing international laws, can only be sanctioned by the United Nations. This is the international law. Everything that is done without the UN Security Council's sanction cannot be recognised as fair or justified." ~V.V. Putin
planned Crimea invasion
https://twitter.com/bucktron2021/status/1663176032067923968
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1662938616245497857 Russian investigative journalists discovered that the contract for the medals was advertised as early as December 2013, only a month after the Euromaidan protests began in Kyiv, and were concluded on 13 January 2014, with Mosshtamp Plant LLC awarded the contract. This suggests that Russia was planning to seize Crimea well before Yanukovych was deposed on 22 February, and probably intended to seize it whatever the outcome of the protests and the 'referendum'. Russian propaganda had claimed Crimean was Russian since as early as 2001.
