Comments by "anotheranon" (@anotheranon3118) on "Ukraine rejects Vladimir Putin's truce to observe Orthodox Christmas" video.
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@CorruptMediaLies CNN lmao. Try harder. 400k - 800k protesters during the height of the movement according to different sources. 50k - 200k during normal days. You don't know much about protest movements, do you? These are huge figures for a country like Ukraine. They clearly reflected the growing support for EU membership, which had grown considerably since the 90s. I can get you some figures if you'd like. When you think about it, it's no wonder that Ukrainians had gotten tired of the Kremlin's neo-vassalage arrangement for their country - it only brought poverty, corruption and extreme inequality (a la Russian, but worse).
Everything was ready for the agreement to be signed, but Yanukovich - Putin's pal and world most corrupt leader of that year according to Transparency International - backed off after the Kremlin probably gave him personal treats plus promises of 15b in loans and discounts in the natural gas bills. This was widely unpopular across Ukraine. Do you know what was also widely unpopular? The fact that Yanukovich ordered police forces to shoot live rounds at protestors. 108 dead. ~2,000 injured.
Not everyone was happy with the Maidan, sure, but it was largely supported. There were clashes in cities like Odessa and ugly incidents as well.
This, however, was not enough of a cause to justify the invasion of Crimea and the take-over of the Eastern third of the Donbass - because as we all know by now, many of those combatants as well as funds, intel and weapons made it into Ukraine from Russia (do you think that they shot down that plane with a rusty Kalashnikov?)
Oh, the Minsk agreements. Have you read them? Did you know that Russia had a bunch of obligations under them that they never abode by, or is this fresh news to you?
This is, let's remember, the same Russia that promised to respect Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty when the Budapest Memorandum was signed.
Now we have Russia invading more of Ukraine (yes, more of Ukraine) to do exactly what? To liberate the 15% self-declared ethnic Russians in Kherson to later bomb the s*** out of the city once they lost control of it and destroy all the civilian infrastructure? Apparently this oblast voted 87% pro unification with Russia lmao. Give me a break.
You talk extremism in Ukraine. There's extremism in Ukraine. There's a lot of extremism in Russia too. Did you know? Would you like some names? Lately though, the worst offender is the state itself as we are seeing with all the war crimes and the destruction of Ukraine's civilian infrastructure. Again. 200k dead on both sides since March, 6m plus displaced in Ukraine. I think the EU label State Sponsor of Terrorism is quite fitting.
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