None of this would be happening (if indeed it even IS happening), if Pootin had kept his armies home.
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None of this would be happening (if indeed it even IS happening), ….if the Ukie Neo- Nazis would not have started bombing the ethnic Russian provinces in 2014…..and honored the Minsk Agreements.
Still trying to push those lies? No one is buying them.
There was ONE condition in the Minsk agreements for Russia to honor. It was a simple one. Admit that Russian Federation soldiers were assisting if not directly leading the separatist paramilitaries, and PULL THEM OUT.
Did Russia even get as far as admitting that the Little Green Men, PMC Wagner, and Russian Army Men On Holiday, were in Ukraine?
No. Paranoid Putin put a massive shit eating grin on his face and bare-face lied to the camera, saying that there were no Russian forces propping up the coup being carried out on Russia’s behalf by the likes of Utkin, Pushilin, Girkin.
The bombing of civilian areas (occupied by Russian paramilitaries) was under Poroshenko’s leadership. It pretty much ended four years ago.
None of this would be happening if Putin wasn’t a pathological liar. He knew by January 2020 that the conflict in the Donbas was pretty much over. He also knew by summer 2021 that his own appointed ombudsman in Donetsk had reported 20 straight months of nothing happening in the Donbas to justify even a peace keeping force let alone a full scale invasion.
By January 2021 the number of militants killing each other every month along the entire Ukraine - LDPR line was under 9 a month, with ZERO civilian casualties. So much for bombing civilian populations; that’s Russia’s habit not Ukraine’s.
Not only that, we’ve now had Utkin, Girkin and even Prighozin - three of the Russian guys closest to the Donbas situation than any RF commanders or pro-Putin Swiss commentators or Doug Macgregor or any assorted other useful idiots simply regurgitating Russian vranyo from locations nowhere near the action - admitting that the DNR ombudsman was consistently reporting the reality and the Kremlin was consistently telling the Russian people a pack of lies.
So literally everybody on Ukraine’s side in the Donbas AND every major pair of Russian boots on the ground agreed, Putin lied about what was going on in the Donbas, lied about having nobody to pull out, lied about the nonexistent attacks on civilians, and did all of that to keep his invasion prepping forces where Minsk said they shouldn’t be.
So the single biggest failure of Minsk was it relied on Putin being honest. Putin’s not just dishonest, he revels in his dishonesty.
And so Putin still planned an invasion despite overwhelming evidence that he, personally, was the one preventing any positive movement on Minsk.
Putin, and all his fellow travellers, will be swinging from Russia’s lamp posts long before Ukraine buys half of the the bullcrap in the articles you quote.
And it’ll be the Russian people who’ll do it.