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Yanukovych was elected president in 2010, defeating Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. His platform included economic modernisation, increased spending, continuing TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION and non-alignment in defence policy. His years in power saw democratic backsliding, the jailing of Tymoshenko, a decline in press freedom and an increase in cronyism and corruption. In November 2013, a series of events began that led to his ousting as president. Amid ECONOMIC PRESSURE FROM RUSSIA, YANUKOVYCH SUDDENLY CHANGED HIS MIND and withdrew from signing an association agreement with the EU, instead accepting a Russian trade deal and loan bailout. This sparked mass protests against Yanukovych, dubbed the "Euromaidan", which met a harsh response from authorities. The civil unrest peaked in February 2014, when almost 100 protesters were killed by police. Yanukovych signed an agreement with the opposition, but he secretly fled the capital later that day. The next day, 22 February, Ukraine's parliament voted to remove him from his post and schedule early elections on the grounds that he had withdrawn from his constitutional duties, rather than through the impeachment process.
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The Maidan Revolution took place in Ukraine in February 2014 at the end of the Euromaidan protests, when deadly clashes between protesters and state forces in the capital Kyiv culminated in the ousting of Kreml puppet President Yanukovych and a return to the 2004 Constitution. Yanukovych was elected president in 2010, defeating Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. His platform included economic modernisation, increased spending, continuing TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION and non-alignment in defence policy. His years in power saw democratic backsliding, the jailing of Tymoshenko, a decline in press freedom and an increase in cronyism and corruption. In November 2013, a wave of large-scale protests began in response to President Yanukovych's SUDDEN DECISION NOT TO SIGN an already negotieted political association and free trade agreement with EU, instead choosing closer ties to Russia. Earlier that year, the Ukrainian parliament had overwhelmingly approved finalizing the agreement with the EU. RUSSIA HAD PUT MUCH PRESSURE on Ukraine to reject it, but they declined. The scope of the protests widened, with calls for the resignation of Yanukovych and the Azarov government. Protesters opposed what they saw as widespread government CORRUPTION AND ABUSE POWER, the influence of oligarchs, police brutality, and human rights violations. Ressive anti-protest laws fuelled further anger. In January and February 2014 further protests resulted in the Azarov government resignation. On 21 February, Yanukovych and the parliamentary opposition signed an agreement to bring about an interim unity government, constitutional reforms and early elections. Yanukovych fled the city the same day. The next day, 22 February, the Ukrainian parliament voted to remove Yanukovych from office by 328 to 0. Parliament restored the 2004 amendments to the Ukrainian constitution. An interim government, led by Arseniy Yatsenyuk, signed the EU association agreement and disbanded the Berkut. Petro Poroshenko became president after winning the 2014 presidential elections. Russia then occupied and then annexed Crimea, with “little green men” (Russian masked soldiers). More “little green men” together with Russian armed pro-Russian separatists seized government buildings and proclaimed the independent states of Donetsk and Luhansk, SPARKING THE DONBASS WAR. The Russian Federation initially denied that these were Russian military forces, but on 17 April 2014 Russian President Putin finally confirmed the presence of the Russian military. Alexander Borodai, Prime Minister of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, stated that 50,000 RUSSIAN citizens fought in the Donbas up to August 2015. These soldiers are the ones that the Ukraninan government fought against, NOT “shelling of innocents in Donbass”, which Russian trolls will tell you. Then in 2022 they invaded with much larger forces (even if they said it was just a drill. The Ukrainians, UN and other nations tried with diplomacy, but Putin DENIED. He wanted his imperialistic war, no matter what) Since then they have plundered and raped their way through the South-Eastern Ukraine. Shelled civilian houses and infrastructure. They are looting and plunder all over. Trucks after trucks loaded with stolen goods (washing machines, toilets??, computers) has been sent home to Russia. The Russians in the now occupied Donbass has started indoctrination of children. All history books that mention Ukraine as a nation are forbidden and burned. The children have to speak Russian instead of Ukrainian (both languages was teach before). Also many children are kidnapped/deportet to Russia. Mostly those who the authoroties suspects are pro-Ukrainian. Some of them far East in Russia, where they have small chances for returning home. International Criminal Court investigation in Ukraine: Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Russian military and authorities have committed multiple war crimes in the form of deliberate attacks against civilian targets, massacres of civilians, torture and rape of women and children, torture and mutilitation of Ukrainian prisoners of war, and indiscriminate attacks in densely populated areas.
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Slovenia - 1991 The first of the six republics to formally leave Yugoslavia was Slovenia, declaring independence on 25 June 1991. This triggered an intervention of the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) which turned into a brief military conflict, generally referred to as the Ten-Day War. It ended in a victory of the Slovenian forces, with the JNA withdrawing its soldiers and equipment. Croatia - 1991-1995 Croatia declared independence on the same day as Slovenia. But while Slovenia’s withdrawal from the Yugoslav Federation was comparatively bloodless, Croatia’s was not to be. The sizeable ethnic Serb minority in Croatia openly rejected the authority of the newly proclaimed Croatian state citing the right to remain within Yugoslavia. With the help of the JNA and Serbia, Croatian Serbs rebelled, declaring nearly a third of Croatia’s territory under their control to be an independent Serb state. Croats and other non-Serbs were expelled from its territory in a violent campaign of ethnic cleansing. Heavy fighting in the second half of 1991 witnessed the shelling of the ancient city of Dubrovnik, and the siege and destruction of Vukovar by Serb forces. Bosnia and Herzegovina - 1992-1995 In March 1992, in a referendum boycotted by Bosnian Serbs, more than 60 percent of Bosnian citizens voted for independence. Almost immediately, in April 1992, Bosnian Serbs rebelled with the support of the Yugoslav People’s Army and Serbia, declaring the territories under their control to be a Serb republic in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through overwhelming military superiority and a systematic campaign of persecution of non-Serbs, they quickly asserted control over more than 60% of the country. Bosnian Croats soon followed, rejecting the authority of the Bosnian Government and declaring their own republic with the backing of Croatia. The conflict turned into a bloody three-sided fight for territories, with civilians of all ethnicities becoming victims of horrendous crimes. It is estimated that more than 100,000 people were killed and two million people, more than half the population, were forced to flee their homes as a result of the war that raged from April 1992 through to November 1995 when a peace deal was initialled in Dayton. Thousands of Bosnian women were systematically raped. Notorious detention centres for civilians were set up by all conflicting sides: in Prijedor, Omarska, Konjic, Dretelj and other locations. The single worst atrocity of the war occurred in the summer of 1995 when the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, a UN-declared safe area, came under attack by forces lead by the Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladić. During a few days in early July, more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were executed by Serb forces in an act of genocide. The rest of the town’s women and children were driven out. Kosovo - 1998-1999 The next area of conflict was centered on Kosovo, where the ethnic Albanian community there sought independence from Serbia. In 1998 violence flared as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) came out in open rebellion against Serbian rule, and police and army reinforcements were sent in to crush the insurgents. In their campaign, the Serb forces heavily targeted civilians, shelling villages and forcing Kosovo Albanians to flee. As the attempt at an internationally-brokered deal to end the crisis failed in early 1999 at the Rambouillet peace talks, NATO carried out a 78-day-long campaign of air strikes against targets in Kosovo and Serbia. NATO's intervention was prompted by Yugoslavia's bloodshed and ethnic cleansing of Albanians, which drove the Albanians into neighbouring countries and had the potential to destabilize the region. In response, Serb forces further intensified the persecution of the Kosovo Albanian civilians. Ultimately, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević agreed to withdraw his troops and police from the province. Some 750,000 Albanian refugees came home and about 100,000 Serbs - roughly half the province's Serb population – fled in fear of reprisals. In June 1999, Serbia agreed to international administration of Kosovo with the final status of the province still unresolved.
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NATO's intervention was prompted by Yugoslavia's bloodshed and ethnic cleansing of Albanians, which drove the Albanians into neighbouring countries and had the potential to destabilize the region. Yugoslavia's actions had already provoked condemnation by international organisations and agencies such as the UN, NATO, and various INGOs. Yugoslavia's refusal to sign the Rambouillet Accords was initially offered as justification for NATO's use of force. NATO countries attempted to gain authorisation from the UN Security Council for military action, but were opposed by China and Russia, who indicated that they would veto such a measure. As a result, NATO launched its campaign without the UN's approval, stating that it was a humanitarian intervention.
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@arturschlegel-ky2wt The whole truth? You want an even LONGER explanation? 😉 Do you think percievedrealitys long posts cover the whole truth?? Or do you prefer the simple masses in here: blah blah bad US, blah blah bad NATO, blah bla West.
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