Posted on 05/09/2022 9:55:28 AM PDT by marshmallow
The Donbass, once serving as the industrial and coal-mining heartland of Ukraine, was thrust into years of bloodshed beginning in the spring of 2014, after Kiev sent troops to try to crush local resistance to the February 2014 Maidan coup.
Russia was not given any opportunity to resolve the conflict in Donbass peacefully, President Vladimir Putin has said.
"If there was even once chance to solve this problem by other, peaceful means, of course we would have taken it. But we were not left with such a chance, simply weren't given it", Putin said, speaking to Artyom Zhoga, whose son Vladimir, a Donetsk native and militia commander, was killed in fighting in March.
Putin said Russian troops taking part in the operation in Ukraine were "fighting courageously, heroically, professionally", and that "the result will be achieved - there is no doubt about this".
Vladimir Zhoga was the commander of the Sparta Battalion of the Donetsk People's Militia. He was killed on 5 March during heavy fighting for the town of Volnovakha, Donetsk People's Republic. He was 28 years old. Zhoga and his father joined the Sparta Battalion in 2014, citing the pro-Western, anti-constitutional coup in Kiev that took place in February of that year as their motivation.
The Russian president solemnly presented the elder Zhoga with his son's Hero of Russia medal, which Vladimir was posthumously awarded in March, and congratulated him on Victory Day. Zhoga assured Putin that Donetsk forces "will do everything required of us" to see the conflict through to a victorious conclusion.
Putin's comments Monday echoed remarks he made on 24 February, the day Russia and its Donbass allies kicked off their military operation in Ukraine. During that speech, Putin said that in 1940 and 1941, before the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War...............
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When the “Dombass problem” is defined as “Ukraine shouldn’t exist as a separate state”, then no, I guess there wasn’t a peaceful option.
On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. To justify the action, Nazi propagandists accused Poland of persecuting ethnic Germans living in Poland. They also falsely claimed that Poland was planning, with its allies Great Britain and France, to encircle and dismember Germany.
They had no choice.../s
All I want is Peace....Peace....Peace!
A little “peace” of Poland
A little “peace” of France
A little “peace” of Austria
And Hungary, perchance.
A little slice of Turkey
and all that that entails
And then a “peace” of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales
Putin propaganda...
Not to make light of this serious thing, but am I the only person who sees “Donbass” and has “Dumbass” substituted in their head for a split second before reality corrects it for me?
Yeah, with “Peacefully” defined as “Give us everything we want and we won’t kill you”.
Just like any other thug.
The problem is Putin is a dumbass,not Dombass.
> “If there was even once chance to solve this problem by other, peaceful means, of course we would have taken it.” <
A quote by Putin. But the exact same thing could have been said by Hitler right after he invaded Poland. Who knows? Maybe Hitler really did say that.
Anyway, I think I might have just triggered Godwin’s Law. So I think I’ll quit for the day.
This stuff about taking any possible opportunity for peaceful resolution, does that include their threats to launch a nuclear war and to destroy nato in 30 minutes? Just wondering if there is a bit of inconsistency there.
And there were plenty of seditious idiots who believed Hitler, just as there are many of the same vile sorts of characters who don’t consider Putin the unmitigated and unambiguous bad guy here. Just wait, the Russian trolls with their lies and intellectual vomit about “biolabs” and “Nazis”
You could turn around and leave.
If US and European governments are going to believe that marriage was never about being between a man and a woman, they’ll believe this.
BS. His goal was the annexation of Ukraine using Dumbass as an excuse.
Russia explicitly recognized the validity of Ukraine's borders in 1994, which was the condition for Ukraine surrendering all of it's nuclear weapons. Russia's unilateral abandonment of that Agreement in 2014 is the cause of the entire mess.
I’m with you.
They’re still planning to kill a lot of people during this “peace”. Just recently Russian propaganda TV said that they figure 5% of Ukrainians must be killed and then others will see the error in their ways and fall in line.
That’s planning the murder of 2 million people!
It’s not just you.
A while back I created and posted a meme of Red Forman (that 70’s show dad) saying “Dombasses!!”
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