Comments by "R Johansen" (@rjohansen9486) on "Russia's War Triggers Tensions With West In The Arctic Ocean | Svalbard Feels The Heat" video.
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@lassel1344 It is not true!
- On 7 April 2022, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that Moscow rejected a draft peace deal from Ukraine, saying that it contained “unacceptable” elements that deviated from proposals that both sides’ negotiators had earlier agreed on.
So there wasn't any real peace deal in Turkey.
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ohnson said this to his own parliament: There is absolutely no sign that Russia wants to reach a deal with Ukraine, and it could not be trusted even if one was on offer, Boris Johnson has told the Commons.
And he was right, Russia had broken all the agreements so far, including Minsk. The former prime minister warned against a "land for peace" deal, and said he doubted Volodymyr Zelensky or any Ukrainian government would agree to any such compromise.
(While in 2014-2017 the implementation of the Minsk Accords could have led to a negotiated reintegration of Donbas into Ukraine under international supervision, the international situation and Russia’s intentions have changed. In fact, by late 2021 Russian authorities had all but integrated the breakaway republics into the Russian political, military and economic space, precluding any meaningful possibility of the region’s peaceful reintegration into Ukraine. Whilst the Ukrainian leadership pursued a ceasefire in Donbas from the summer of 2020, the Kremlin used it as a bargaining chip to put pressure on Zelensky’s government and to create a flimsy pretext for an invasion. Zelensky’s last-ditch attempts to return to the negotiations in late 2021 were rejected by Putin, who tore up the Minsk Accords by recognising the independence of the breakaway regions. Thus, instead of a roadmap to future peace, the Minsk Accords had largely become a military-diplomatic tool in the hands of Russian leadership to legitimise regime change and the dismemberment of Ukraine.)
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@lassel1344 As for the Bennet interview:
Businessinsider:
As recounted in the interview, Bennett visited Russia a few months before the war, where he then relayed to Putin a request from Zelenskyy to meet. "They're Nazis, they're warmongers, I won't meet him," Putin responded, in Bennett's telling.
After the war began in February 2022, Bennett said he tried again to work as an intermediary between Putin and Zelensky, acknowledging that his primary interest was his own country's security.
Bennett, who left office in June 2022, was also concerned about the fate of Jews in Russia and Ukraine, he said.
In the weeks following the invasion, Bennett said he spoke with both Putin and Zelenskyy, and even made a secret trip to Moscow, in an effort to negotiate an end to the conflict. At the time, Zelenskyy himself noted that the Israeli prime minister was "trying to find a way of holding talks," a fact for which "we are grateful."
After his interview drew the attention of Musk, the former Israeli prime minister himself went on Twitter to correct some of the commentary.
"It's unsure there was any deal to be made," Bennett said in response to Musk. "At the time I gave it roughly a 50% chance. Americans felt chances were way lower. Hard to tell who was right."
He continued: "It's not sure such a deal was desirable. At the time I thought so, but only time will tell."
In the interview, Bennett himself notes that it was not the US, France, or Germany that put an end to any peace talks. Rather, it was Russia slaughtering hundreds of civilians in a town outside the Ukrainian capital, a war crime discovered just about a month after the full-scale invasion began.
"The Bucha massacre, once that happened, I said: 'It's over,'" Bennett recalled.
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From Iranian press: Vladimir Putin regularly drone on about the alleged “genocide of the Donbas population”. Today, this myth sits at the core of the Kremlin’s propaganda. Putin has used this myth to justify Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. " Its goal is to protect people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years” Putin said in his address announcing the war.
Both Ukraine and the occupied Donbas territories have suffered casualties because of the HOSTILITIES THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION has been conducting there since 2014. But Russia has insisted for these eight years and tried to convince the world that the actions of Ukraine’s Armed Forces in Donbas “are aimed at destroying the population of Donbas” and are not a struggle for Ukraine’s territorial integrity. And despite the UNTRUTHFULNESS of the argument, Russia’s propaganda machine has nevertheless managed to convince the Russian audience of this, that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is “an act of retaliation for Donbas”.
As it happens, official United Nations data suggests that the 14,000 casualty figure that Putin has used does not only refer to civilians. During Russia’s 2014-2021 military operations against Ukraine, 14,500 people died in the Donbas war. Of that 14,000, 3,404 were civilians, 4,400 were Ukrainian servicemen and 6,500 were Russian militants. The figure Putin operates with, is the total number of casualties incurred in the Donbas war by both sides.
The Russian Federation both armed the separatists and sendt unmarked soldiers. Russia initially denied that there were Russian military forces in Donbas, but on 17 April 2014 Vladimir 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 Ukranian government fought against, NOT “shelling of innocents in Donbass”, which Russian propaganda will tell you.
Data obtained from the reports of the so-called “Commissioner for Human Rights in the Donetsk People’s Republic” show casualty figures even lower than those of the United Nations. In a 2020 report the total losses of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) since the start of the war in Donbas are estimated to be 4,959. This is the figure that is officially recorded by the DPR “legislature”.
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@mikejezek5214 From Iranian press: Vladimir Putin regularly drone on about the alleged “genocide of the Donbas population”. Today, this myth sits at the core of the Kremlin’s propaganda. Putin has used this myth to justify Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. " Its goal is to protect people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years” Putin said in his address announcing the war.
Both Ukraine and the occupied Donbas territories have suffered casualties because of the HOSTILITIES THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION has been conducting there since 2014. But Russia has insisted for these eight years and tried to convince the world that the actions of Ukraine’s Armed Forces in Donbas “are aimed at destroying the population of Donbas” and are not a struggle for Ukraine’s territorial integrity. And despite the UNTRUTHFULNESS of the argument, Russia’s propaganda machine has nevertheless managed to convince the Russian audience of this, that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is “an act of retaliation for Donbas”.
As it happens, official United Nations data suggests that the 14,000 casualty figure that Putin has used does not only refer to civilians. During Russia’s 2014-2021 military operations against Ukraine, 14,500 people died in the Donbas war. Of that 14,000, 3,404 were civilians, 4,400 were Ukrainian servicemen and 6,500 were Russian militants. The figure Putin operates with, is the total number of casualties incurred in the Donbas war by both sides.
The Russian Federation both armed the separatists and sendt unmarked soldiers. Russia initially denied that there were Russian military forces in Donbas, but on 17 April 2014 Vladimir 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 Ukranian government fought against, NOT “shelling of innocents in Donbas”, which Russian propaganda will tell you.
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OMG, what a bunch of lies!!!
Your narrative stranded in the first line already. Gorbachev said "no such promise was made".
And Merkel did NOT say the Minsk (which Russia broke BTW) was to fool Putin. That's lie number 2.
Yanukovych didn't become president before 2010 (Ukraines independence came in 1991). And he and the parliament negotiated a political association and trade deal with EU. The deal was already brokered when Russia pressured him to not sign the deal. Of course Ukraine protested and finally Yanukovych had to go. (your lie number 3)
EU didn't say that Ukraine had to deal with them only (your lie number 4)
Nor did they say that Ukraine had to be a member of NATO (your lie number 5)
Biden (who was NOT the President of the time), CIA and EU didn't remove Yanukovych. Ukraine did! The parliament VOTED him out! (your lie number 6)
"the US and the EU promised to protect Poroshenko". They had already guaranteed Ukraine's security along with Russia, in the Budapest Memorandims in 1994.
The Russian speaking people were NOT randomly bombarded for 8 years, killing 14.000 people. (your lie number 7) The Ukrainian government fought against RUSSIAN soldiers and Russian armed separatists since 2014.
"WEF / EU Globalists want Putin be removed and replaced by some Russia corrupt traitor doing the wishes of the WEF Globalists. " (your lie number 8)
That's exactly what Russia was trying to do with Ukraine. Install their own corrupt puppet. when that didn't succeed, they invaded.
"If Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine would have formed a neutral zone situated between de EU / NATO and Russia there would never be war again !!! "
You're mistaken, if Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were neutral, they would have been invaded by Putin's Russia. (Don't you remember Putin's big wish about reestablish the Soviet Union? This time as Great Russia, with him as Tsar Peter/Putin the Great.)
"But this is made impossible because of evil people who love to hate, kill and destroy, and because of their love for power over others and their love for money, rather than to live in peace with each other. "
You just described Putin's Russia. Run like a mafia with him as Don. I couldn't have said it better myself! He has looted his country for over 20 years, and now he need more resources.
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"Norway were with Hitler". You're a first class liar!
The saving of Europe was a joint effort of the Allies. After Soviet/Russia was on Hitler side the first 2 years of the war. Not before Hitler broke the pact and attacked Soviet, the Soviets shifted side. Then Stalin begged UK and US for help. They sent million of tons with weapon and equipment to Soviet via the Arctic Convoys.
After the D-day in Normandy, (where USA, UK, Canada, France, Polen, Belgium, Greece, Norway, Holland and Czechoslovakia) fought their way into the German positions and started the march to Germany. That meant that the Germans had two fronts to fight against, Eastern (Soviet) and Western. Together they defeated the Nazis. But they probably don't teach that in Russian schools.
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