Another Russian neo-imperialistic rant. When the Soviet Union dissolved Russia agreed to recognize Ukrainian independence and sovereignty. Russia reaffirmed this when it signed the Budapest memorandums. The Russo-Ukrainian War began in 2014 when Putin reneged on these agreements.
“When the Soviet Union dissolved Russia agreed to recognize Ukrainian independence and sovereignty. Russia reaffirmed this when it signed the Budapest memorandums.”
They didn’t have much choice. With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine became an independent state, formalized with a referendum in December 1991. On 21 January 1990, over 300,000 Ukrainians organized a human chain for Ukrainian independence between Kyiv and Lviv. Ukraine officially declared itself an independent country on 24 August 1991, when the communist Supreme Soviet (parliament) of Ukraine proclaimed that Ukraine would no longer follow the laws of USSR and only the laws of the Ukrainian SSR, de facto declaring Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union.
On 1 December, voters approved a referendum formalizing independence from the Soviet Union. Over 90% of Ukrainian citizens voted for independence, with majorities in every region, including 56% in Crimea. The Soviet Union formally ceased to exist on 26 December, when the presidents of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia (the founding members of the USSR) met in Białowieża Forest to formally dissolve the Union in accordance with the Soviet Constitution. With this, Ukraine’s independence was formalized de jure and recognized by the international community.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ukraine
Rants don’t have facts and dates. The voting in the Ukraine and the decision of separation was accomplished prior to the dissolving of the soviets as listed above. The soviets knew they were going under and could not stop a number of the satellites they controlled from annexing.
The three Baltic states—Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania—were the first to break away from the USSR by proclaiming the restoration of their independence, between March and May 1990, claiming continuity from the original states that existed prior to their annexation by the Soviet Union in 1940. The remaining 12 republics all subsequently seceded, all 12 of which joined the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and most of the 12 joining the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
In contrast, the Baltic states focused on European Union (EU) and NATO membership. EU officials have stressed the importance of Association Agreements between the EU and post-Soviet states. Most of these “states” had been under the control no less than almost a century.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the successor states’ bilateral relations have undergone periods of ties, tensions, and outright hostility.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Ukraine_relations
It didn’t escalate to all out war until 2014, but the reason for the war was accomplished in 1991 and the growing problem from that time on.
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