One year of open military conflict in Ukraine
February 24, 2023, was the one year anniversary of the open military conflict in Ukraine. Like all wars of the past, the ground work was laid well in advance. Years of planning, logistic preparations, tactics, political maneuvers, false diplomacy, discrimination, corruption and thousands of deaths set the stage for this operation. Ukraine’s location makes it an important chess piece as it is situated between European Union {EU} and the Russian Federation. Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union until 1991. Its economy, defenses and infrastructure was closely tied to Russia. Let’s see the chronology.
November 13, 2013– Euromaidan or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest that took a place in Kyiv after President Viktor Yanukovych did not sign an agreement with the EU, but instead chose closer ties to Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union. Demonstrations grew and became more violent when the military became involved with the protestors. Protests continued until February 2014.
January 2014– residents of Odesa started protesting against the situation in Kyiv. Supporters of the Kyiv Maidan went to the streets and tension escalated. Protests in Odesa known as the Odesa clashes, continued until May 2014, during which 48 people died and hundreds were injured.
February 18, 2014- Euromaidan led to a Revolution of Dignity where the number of deaths and injured increased. Parliament voted to remove Yanukovych from office, but he refused, claiming the vote was illegal since the necessary quorum of three quarters of the parliament had not voted as is constitutionally required. On February 24, after his life was threatened, President Yanukovych escaped to Russia. The coup was finalized, and a new administration took power in the Ukraine. As U.S. diplomat Victoria Nuland said, ”We invested over $5 billion to assist Ukraine to these and other goals.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2fYcHLouXY#t=504
March 2014- as a result a new regime illegally took the power. Referendums were held in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, where 96.77% and 96.60% respectively, voted to join the Russian Federation. Voter turnout was 83.1% and 89.5%. March 17, established the Republic of Crimea, and on March 21, the Republic of Crimea became a part of Russia.
April 2014– Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic were established as a result of the persecution of the Russian-speaking people in those areas by the new Kyiv regime. Over 8 million Russian-speaking lived in Eastern Ukraine. After separation the Kyiv regime started a military campaign against them. Over 13.000 people died within the first year of the conflict, and the Ukrainian army took almost half of the independent territory.
July 17, 2014- Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine. All passengers and crew died, 298 people in total. Without any evidence, western media and politicians pointed to Russia.
September 5, 2014- The Minsk agreement was signed by Russia, Ukraine, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation {OSCE} in Europe, mediated by France and Germany, in efforts to stop the fighting and implement an immediate ceasefire.
February 15, 2015- When the immediate and full ceasefire in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions failed the second Minsk agreement was signed. It was attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, new Ukrainian President Peter Poroshenko, German chancellor Angela Merkel, French president Francois Hollande and leaders of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics.
For more watch the documentary Ukraine On Fire by Oliver Stone.
https://rumble.com/vwxxi8-ukraine-on-fire.html
Since the Minsk agreement II was signed the conflict was partially frozen but the guns were not completely silent. Each side blamed the other for not respecting the Minsk ceasefire agreement.
April 2019- Ukraine’s parliament approved a language law, which was discriminatory against Russian-speaking people.
May 20, 2019– Sees the inauguration of a new president of Ukraine, former comic Volodymyr Zelensky. He became a star in Ukraine in 2015 when he played the role of president in the tv series Servant of the People. Since in office, he has been creating more tension between Ukraine and Russia.
April 2020- US Embassy in Ukraine confirmed that there is a biological laboratory in Ukraine under the control of the Pentagon. Serbian and Bulgarian media reported over 400 US laboratories around the world, 15 in Ukraine.
https://www.stalkerzone.org/what-are-secret-us-bio-laboratories-doing-in-ukraine/
December 15, 2021– Russian president Vladimir Putin proposed security demands to the US and NATO. The demands included: NATO denies membership to Ukraine and other former Soviet countries and rolls back the alliance’s military deployments in Central and Eastern Europe; for a ban on sending U.S. warships and aircraft to areas with Russian military presence along with a halt to NATO military drills near Russia.
December 16, 2021– US and Ukraine, are the only two countries which vote against a United Nations {UN} Resolution Condemning Nazism. The resolution was sponsored by Russia and other 30 countries.
January 2022– US officials have not conceded in their refusal to consider ruling out Ukrainian membership in NATO, that’s means Russian security demands to the US and NATO were not accepted.
February 7, 2022– US president Joe Biden in news a conference said:” If Russia invades Ukraine, that will mean tanks and troops crossing the border of Ukraine again, then there will be no longer be a Nord Stream 2, we will bring to end to it. “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4O8rGRLf8
February 19, 2022– At the Munich Security Conference, Zelensky requests the opening of the Budapest Memorandum {nuclear weapons agreement}, looking to “supply the latest weapons, machinery and equipment for our army,”
February 21, 2022- Russia recognizes the two new countries, Luhansk People’s Republic and Donetsk People’s Republic. Officials of those republics requested military help from Russia because of escalating military attacks from Ukraine.
February 22, 2022– Russian Duma accepted the request from Luhansk and Donetsk republics.
February 24, 2022– Russian troops cross the Ukrainian border beginning a “special military operation” according to Russian officials. The fourth round of sanctions against Russia.
September 26, 2022– sabotage of Nord Stream gas pipeline built to transport natural gas from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea. In total four explosions damaged this Russian majority state-owned pipeline.
October 8, 2022- explosion in the Crimea bridge, a four lane road and double-track railway connect the peninsula Crimea with continental Russia.
December 7, 2022– German magazine Die Zeit published an interview with former German chancellor Angela Merkel when she admits the Minsk agreement was merely to buy time for Ukraine’s arms build- up.
February 8, 2023- investigative journalist Seymour Hersh publishes his report proving that during the NATO exercise, BALTOPS 22, the US executed a covert sea secret operation that put explosives on the Nord Stream pipeline.
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream
Vladimir Putin has repeatedly claimed, that if the Russian security demands to the US and NATO from December 2021 will be accepted and the Ukrainian army {including volunteers from NATO} stop fighting and respect the ceasefire the “special military operation” will end. Nobody responds…
For a better understanding of the Russian situation, please watch the documentary below. WARNING: the documentary contains details that may disturb some people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UewtzCp-l2s
Canada’s contribution to this disaster? Since 2015 Canadian armed forces CAF under operation UNIFIER trained over 34.000 Ukrainian military and security personnel. Operation UNIFIER expanded and extended until March 2025. The Canadian liberal government has provided over $1.1 billion in military support to Ukraine, including armored vehicles, artillery, ammunition, drones, etc. The total contribution of the Canadian government to Ukraine was $3.4 billion in 2022 alone. Canada has also participated in economic sanctions against Russia and its allies.
https://freeshuswap.com/additional-billions-to-ukraine/
But that is not the only contribution to this war from Canada. Millions of dollars from non-profit organizations and charities have been donated while thousands of people have invested in the stock market.
Results? This conflict between those two Slavic countries has caused tens of thousands of deaths, millions of people relocated, billions of dollars of material damage, uncountable environmental disasters and energy and food supply shortages worldwide. Despite this, governments worldwide are increasing military budgets to continue the insanity. Billions of taxpayers’ dollars and tons of natural resources are wasted on irrational wars instigated by the same lunatic, corrupt people that claim we need to protect our planet and reduce CO2 emissions.
CUI BONO?
DB, CB
