russian invasion of Ukraine/Reasons

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Since 2003, russia planned the russian invasion of Ukraine [4]. Since 2006, russia infiltrated/trained “separatists” in Eastern Ukraine. Since 2011, it started training its troops for invasion using German provided training center. First invasion happened in 2014, second in 2022, with parts of Ukraine occupied by russian troops in-between:

Among other things, the Court found that areas in eastern Ukraine in separatist hands were, from 11 May 2014 and up to at least 26 January 2022, under the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation.

— European Court of Human Rights, “Grand Chamber decision Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia - Flight MH17 and eastern-Ukraine-conflict case partially admissible, will proceed to judgment”, January 25, 2023

Below some of the reasons.

Prelude (1994)

The Clinton administration ignored flashing warning signs as it pushed Ukraine hard to accept unilateral disarmament—depriving Kyiv of a deterrent against Russia while providing nothing real to replace it.

How Bill Clinton Sealed Ukraine’s Fate: The inside story of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, when Kyiv returned its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for ‘assurances’ from Moscow and Washington.

Early preparations (since 2003)

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Illarionov was Putin’s chief economic advisor up until 2005. When he resigned, he left the country and became an outspoken critic.

He says Putin has been planning the months-long invasion for years.

“He’s had this idea, this goal for last two decades. Even when I was his advisor, I was able to watch to see myself his intentions,” Illarionov said.

Illarionov says Putin could never accept the fact that Ukraine was its own sovereign nation separate from Russia. He believes the invasion is step one in Putin’s grand plan of reunifying the whole former Soviet Union.

‘This should be stopped’: Ex-Putin advisor weighs in on Russia-Ukraine invasion
  • Russia started training separatists to split Ukraine in 2006 already. Then Russia’s relations with NATO were still excellent. [6]

Reviving the Soviet Union

[3] вернём границы 1945 года! Let's bring back the borders of 1945!

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century.

Vladimir Putin, “Annual Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation”, April 25, 2005

In essence, Ukraine’s ruling circles decided to justify their country’s independence through the denial of its past, however, except for border issues. They began to mythologize and rewrite history, edit out everything that united us, and refer to the period when Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union as an occupation.

Vladimir Putin, “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians”, July 12, 2021

Expanding the russian empire

Границы России нигде не заканчивается - Russia’s borders end nowhere

Peter the Great ... was returning and reinforcing, that is what he was doing.

Clearly, it fell to our lot to return and reinforce as well. And if we operate on the premise that these basic values constitute the basis of our existence, we will certainly succeed in achieving our goals.

Vladimir Putin, “Meeting with young entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists”, June 9, 2022

Putin’s pet propagandists readily embraced his speech about taking back historical territories. They jumped on the bandwagon with gusto, comparing their empire to the Golden Horde and North Korea.

Destroying the Ukrainian nation, genocide of Ukrainians

Preventing democratic concurrent models

Resource grab

Domestic popularity boost

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Fighting the West

False reasons


See also