Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "Life Inside Putin’s Crimea" video.
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Shortly before the annexation of Crimea, a revolution took place in Ukraine. In Kyiv, an illegal, anti-constitutional coup d'état was carried out, there was a change of power through a revolution. What conclusions can we draw from this regarding the inhabitants of Crimea? It's simple - if people in Kyiv have the right to self-determination, then the Russian people in the Crimea and in the south-east of Ukraine have the same right. The Russian people in Crimea and Donbass have the same right to self-determination as the revolutionaries from Kyiv. If they were unhappy with the anti-Russian coup and wanted to be with Russia, Russia had every right to annex Crimea. Because they came to power in Ukraine through a revolution, illegally, some incomprehensible people.
Why are Crimeans worse than Kyiv revolutionaries? Nothing, if those people can, then the Russians can. Ukrainian troops left the Crimea without a fight, did not defend foreign land. Against the backdrop of the annexation of Crimea, protests in the Donbass intensified and intensified. Donbass, unlike Crimea, cannot be called Russian territory. The Russian and Ukrainian population is 50/50 there. On April 6, 2014, protesters seized administrative buildings and declared that they wanted to follow the path of Crimea. However, Ukraine was not going to hand over these lands. On April 14, 2014, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced the start of an "anti-terrorist operation". The war has begun. Ukraine blames the war on Kremlin armed mercenaries who arrived there on April 12. Russia, on the other hand, blamed Ukraine, saying that the protests would have subsided, and it was not necessary to bring in Ukrainian troops. But the fact remains - the Ukrainian government, which itself came to power as a result of a bloody revolution, violating the laws of Ukraine, hypocritically accused the protesters in the Donbass of terrorism, after which, on April 14, 2014, Ukrainian troops launched an offensive there, which the locals met aggressively - the first bloodshed that provoked popular anger, and then a massive popular uprising throughout the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Ukrainian troops were stronger than a handful of rebels, and by August 2014 Ukraine had almost won. However, then, apparently, Russia stood up for the rebels, starting to massively supply them with weapons. And in September 2014 there was a sensation when Ukraine announced the presence of Russian troops. After a series of defeats, the Ukrainian troops retreated, and the front stabilized. In the fall, Russia offered to resolve the conflict peacefully - somehow managed to persuade the rebels to sign the Russian peace plan - the Minsk Agreements. According to this document, both sides had to lay down their arms and cease hostilities, the rebels were entitled to an amnesty. Then Ukraine would hold referendums on its territories. These referendums would have raised the question of the autonomy of the regions within Ukraine.
And then Donetsk and Luhansk would return to Ukraine as autonomous regions. Ukraine has signed this document. However, no one began to fulfill these agreements. At the end of February 2015, active battles were still going on near Debaltseve, which ended with the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops. There were battles for the Donetsk airport. The position of the front practically did not change, and the advance of a couple of kilometers took place over many months. Ukraine accused the rebels of non-compliance with the ceasefire, while Russia blamed Ukraine. In 2015, the Minsk agreements were signed by the parties for the second time. France and Germany became guarantors of the implementation of the agreements.
Meetings in the Normandy format began to be held every year. Due to the lack of changes at the front, everyone was tired of fighting, and over time, the intensity of hostilities decreased. Ceasefire agreements were signed, the rebels left a number of settlements along the front line. Since then, the conflict has been frozen, and by 2021, the death rate from shelling was 25 people. As such, there was no longer a war, no one attacked anyone. There were shellings, the rebels had martial law and curfews. However, in 2022, the calm turned into a storm.
In the summer of 2021, Ukrainian troops began to move towards the Donbass. At the same time, the government and the president of Ukraine made loud statements towards Russia. Russia as an answer started to do the same. Both sides moved their armies to the borders. Russia has supported the rebels in Donbas since 2014, while Ukraine considers Donbas its territory and wants to return it by suppressing illegal separatists. However, Russia supported the rebels in such a way that Ukraine was unable to defeat them in 2014. So Ukraine needs to find a way to cut off Russian support for the rebels. This way - joining NATO, or receiving security guarantees from the United States by other way. Ukraine wanted security guarantees from the West in order to attack Russian rebels in Donbass with impunity. In this case, Russia wouldn't be able to help the rebels, because if it happens, then the NATO article on collective defense works. Russia couldn't allow this to happen. Therefore, in December 2021, negotiations began in Switzerland between Russia and NATO. Russia said that the conflict in the south-east of Ukraine could become a powder keg if Ukraine was accepted into NATO. However, the West refused Russia not to accept Ukraine into NATO. Negotiations came to nothing. The West, which in the late 1980s promised not to expand NATO to the East, putting Russia's interests in security at nothing, refused to accept Ukraine into NATO and refused to expand NATO to Russia's borders. When diplomacy is powerless, cannons begin to fire. France and Germany, as an guarantors of Minsk agrrements, understood this, and they were trying in early february 2022 to talk with Russia about further negotiations. But this didn't happened.
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a so-called "special military operation". The goal was to establish a puppet government in Kyiv. At the same time, Ukraine would be kept on the map, but possibly with minor territorial changes in the southeast. Russia has been trying for 8 years to resolve the conflict peacefully, with the help of diplomacy. In 2014 and 2015, Russia twice organized the signing of the Minsk agreements. Russia until the last tried to resolve the conflict peacefully. However, Ukraine used Russia's trust to play for time and prepare for war. Ukraine wanted to join NATO or get security guarantees from the West, then attack the Russian rebels, attack the Donbass. Ukraine was preparing for an offensive, and Russia launched a preemptive strike on Ukraine in 2022 to not allow Ukraine to attack Donbass with Western support.
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Crimea historically never belonged to Ukraine - after the Russo-Turkish war in the 18th century, it was Russian, and the Crimea was mostly populated by Russians, there were much fewer Ukrainians. Since 1917, Crimea was in the Russian Soviet Republic, but in 1954 it was transferred to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. In Soviet times, no one could even think that this country would ever cease to exist. After the collapse of the USSR in the Crimea, in which about 70% of the population are Russians, there was separatism and protests. In 2014, an illegal coup took place in Ukraine, as a result of which the pro-Russian president was overthrown, and anti-Russian and pro-Western forces came to power. Then Russia took the Crimea, which makes the majority of residents happy
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Crimea historically never belonged to Ukraine - after the Russo-Turkish war in the 18th century, it was Russian, and the Crimea was mostly populated by Russians, there were much fewer Ukrainians. Since 1917, Crimea was in the Russian Soviet Republic, but in 1954 it was transferred to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. In Soviet times, no one could even think that this country would ever cease to exist. After the collapse of the USSR in the Crimea, in which about 70% of the population are Russians, there was separatism and protests. In 2014, an illegal coup took place in Ukraine, as a result of which the pro-Russian president was overthrown, and anti-Russian and pro-Western forces came to power. Then Russia took the Crimea, which makes the majority of residents happy
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@marshallmintz7564 Stop talking nonsense - Ukraine under Yanukovych was not a puppet of Russia. Ukrainian policy until 2014 was heterogeneous - on the one hand, there were supporters of joining the EU, on the other hand, there were supporters of rapprochement with Russia. Ukraine is a democratic state in which there was a regular change of power and there were democratic institutions. So Yanukovych did not need to be overthrown in order to remove him from power. The Ukrainian people were dissatisfied with Yanukovych's domestic policy, not foreign policy - corruption and poverty. After the overthrow of Yanukovych, the situation did not get better, but rather the opposite - for the last 9 years Ukraine has been in an economic crisis, and corruption has not gone anywhere.
With regards to licking Putin's shoes, I want to remind you that Ukrainian President Poroshenko (2014-19) owns a donated business in Russia. You accuse Yanukovych of being pro-Russian, which is why he was overthrown in 2014, but at the same time, Poroshenko, who came to replace him, owns a business in Russia donated by Putin )
Yanukovych could have been removed from power by democratic means. And the regions of the East of Ukraine, which voted for him, did not agree with the violent overthrow of the president, and therefore after the coup there were protests that were brutally crushed, as a result of which hostilities began. Ukrainian punishers bombed Donbass for 8 years, and now Russia is conducting a peacekeeping operation
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@pogo8050 you are wrong, you are talking nonesence. Your quote:
"The majority of population of Crimea wanted to join Ukraine during the collapse of Soviet Union" (c)
This is totally incorrect. First of all, they didn't joined Ukraine, because they already were part of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, they already were part of Ukraine, and Ukraine left Soviet Union in borders of Ukrainian Soviet Republic. In 1991 there was a referendum in entire Soviet Union, where 74% of people voted to save Soviet Union and not dissolve it. And when there was a collapse of Soviet Union, Crimean population wanted to separate from Ukraine and join Russia, and in 1994 there was an attempt of Crimean parliament to conduct referendum about belonging to Russia or Ukraine, but Ukrainian police and military forcefully supressed attempt of democratic vote and Ukraine violated the law and rules that Crimea is autonomus region, and even according to the Soviet law autonomus region is contested region with contested population and there must be referendum in this area where people will decide in which state they want to live. Crimea was a Russian territory inside Russian Soviet Republic, untill 1954, when Khrushew due to burecratic reasons and personal interest gave Russian land with majority of Russian population that never was Ukrainian to Ukraine. After the collapse of USSR Russia was ready to make trade and friendship with Ukraine untill 2014, closing eyes on Crimea, untill illegal coup in 2014. If people in Kiev had right to self determination and conducted illegal coup, why Russian people in Crimea and Donbass didn't had the same right of self determination? And why people from Kiev who used their right of self determination illegally moved soldiers and tanks against Russian people in the Donbass who also used their rights illegally? What a hypocrisy and double standards?
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Crimea historically never belonged to Ukraine - after the Russo-Turkish war in the 18th century, it was Russian, and the Crimea was mostly populated by Russians, there were much fewer Ukrainians. Since 1917, Crimea was in the Russian Soviet Republic, but in 1954 it was transferred to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. In Soviet times, no one could even think that this country would ever cease to exist. After the collapse of the USSR in the Crimea, in which about 70% of the population are Russians, there was separatism and protests. In 2014, an illegal coup took place in Ukraine, as a result of which the pro-Russian president was overthrown, and anti-Russian and pro-Western forces came to power. Then Russia took the Crimea, which makes the majority of residents happy
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Crimea historically never belonged to Ukraine - after the Russo-Turkish war in the 18th century, it was Russian, and the Crimea was mostly populated by Russians, there were much fewer Ukrainians. Since 1917, Crimea was in the Russian Soviet Republic, but in 1954 it was transferred to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. In Soviet times, no one could even think that this country would ever cease to exist. After the collapse of the USSR in the Crimea, in which about 70% of the population are Russians, there was separatism and protests. In 2014, an illegal coup took place in Ukraine, as a result of which the pro-Russian president was overthrown, and anti-Russian and pro-Western forces came to power. Then Russia took the Crimea, which makes the majority of residents happy
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Crimea historically never belonged to Ukraine - after the Russo-Turkish war in the 18th century, it was Russian, and the Crimea was mostly populated by Russians, there were much fewer Ukrainians. Since 1917, Crimea was in the Russian Soviet Republic, but in 1954 it was transferred to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. In Soviet times, no one could even think that this country would ever cease to exist. After the collapse of the USSR in the Crimea, in which about 70% of the population are Russians, there was separatism and protests. In 2014, an illegal coup took place in Ukraine, as a result of which the pro-Russian president was overthrown, and anti-Russian and pro-Western forces came to power. Then Russia took the Crimea, which makes the majority of residents happy
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