Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "Russian invasion of Ukraine [2 Dec 2022]" video.

As a Russian, I will say that my father has acquaintances who are fighting there. And they told him that now the troops are even being withdrawn from the Crimea. One of my father's acquaintances spent several months in the Crimea as part of a military unit, and recently they were taken deep into Russia. My father thinks that the evacuation of the population and the withdrawal of troops is a sign that they want to use chemical weapons. Or maybe nuclear. By the way, the United States recently announced this. Or maybe Putin is preparing a gradual withdrawal of troops from Ukraine, although I doubt that he will give up Crimea
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@ryuakuma732 And in general there is a huge difference between the Crimea and other territories of Ukraine. Crimea is truly Russian territory. In 2014, in Crimea, 60% of the population were Russians, 20% of the population were Tatars, 16% of the population were Ukrainians, and 4% were the rest. There were more than three times more Russians in Crimea than Ukrainians. In fact, Crimea is an absolutely Russian territory, which is not clear how it ended up in Ukraine. In 1954, Khrushchev gave Ukraine the Russian land, which is inhabited by the Russian population. In general, Khrushchev was a bad politician - he ruined agriculture, quarreled with China, harmed the economy. And handed over the Crimea to Ukraine. The worst ruler of the USSR.
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@ryuakuma732 In addition, territories are not important for us, we are already the largest country in the world. We are fighting for the people. And everyone who wanted to be evacuated to the territories controlled by Russia was evacuated before the retreat of our troops from near Kherson. About 100 thousand people from Kherson were evacuated to the left bank of the Dnieper. The regions of the south-east of Ukraine are inhabited by Russian people. In Crimea in 2014, 60% of the population was Russian. When our army began to seize the Crimea, the local people rejoiced and greeted our soldiers as liberators. People in Crimea have been waiting for 23 years for the moment when they will return home to Russia. In eastern Ukraine, 50% of the population is Russian and 50% Ukrainian. In the south of Ukraine, 30-40% of the population are Russians. Why did this war even start and why did we decide in 2014 to regain Crimea? You see, there was a coup d'état in Ukraine and the pro-Russian government was overthrown by pro-Western and anti-Russian politicians. Therefore, we were forced, we simply had no choice but to protect the Russian people in Crimea from the anti-Russian revolutionaries who had seized power in Kyiv. Russian people, citizens of Ukraine, went out in 2014 to protest against that coup d'etat and the overthrow of the pro-Russian president. By taking Crimea, we defended their right to self-determination. And the Ukrainian army agreed to voluntarily leave the Crimea. Ukrainian officers shook hands with our officers, 20 thousand Ukrainian soldiers left the Crimea without a fight. Because they knew that Crimea is Russian territory.
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@ryuakuma732 There was a catch in these referendums. First, the government of Ukraine has introduced criminal liability for its citizens for taking part in these elections, regardless of how they vote. Thus, those people who support Ukraine did not vote. And those people who support Russia voted. So in the referendums at the end of September, ~90% of the votes were for Russia, but the turnout was actually low, and the Russian government drew turnout numbers. Even in Russia itself, no one believes in these annexations, even on the websites of the Russian government on the Internet, these regions still do not exist.
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@ryuakuma732 Zelensky's demands sound at least more feasible than Putin's. Because the Ukrainians and Zelensky will not give up, and if we want to win, we will have to go all the way. And if we look at the map, we will see that in a few months our army made a negative offensive. They left the Kharkiv region, surrendered Kherson. So the option of withdrawing troops behind the line on February 24 no longer seems unrealistic. As for the Crimea, the Crimean bridge is badly damaged, here the situation is like with Kherson - if the Ukrainian troops reach the Crimea, the Russian troops simply will not have supplies, because the bridge is destroyed.
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