Yes, you are correct. Ukraines once the 3rd largest nuclear power disarmed have been promised protection by U.S., Great Britain, Russia... continued orchestrated infiltration by Russia. PUTIN LIES!
1. Main historical ethnicity in Crimea is Krim Tatars who were being killed massively during WW2 by Soviets and resettled from Crimea by force after 1944 (ethnical cleaning). After that Russians populated Crimea changing ethnical picture of the peninsula. Krim Tatars started coming back after 1991 and now they support the sovereignty.
of Ukraine and consider themselves Ukrainian citizens. However, they are NOT BEING ALLOWED TO VOTE!
2. By invading Crimea Russia broke sovereignty of Ukraine and international agreements on the integrity of Ukraine that it signed in 1994 in Budapest along with the USA and UK. If international agreements mean nothing to Putin which agreement he will break next?
3. Ethnic Russians in Ukraine were never persecuted for their origin or language – that is the biggest lie you will find no evidence of.
4. By invading Crimea Russia created local separatists movement and prevented ANY peaceful resolution of the political crisis in Ukraine.
5. Russia continues to is hide criminal Yanukovich who is being wanted by Hague for mass economical crimes and homicides in Ukraine.
Please see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNDJb2_4nu0
The 1994 Budapest Memorandum was never worth the paper it was written on, and was never intended to be. For it to have been binding upon the United States, the “agreement” would have to have been submitted as a treaty for Senate ratification. That was never done, proving it to be a hollow and cynical promise that the “guarantor” parties thought would never be called due.