The trigger for the Russian invasion was Ukraine's refusal to abide by the Minsk agreements.
Over the past two days the intensity of shelling has decreased. The 207 incidents of shelling reported by the DPR Defense Ministry are a less terrifying experience than the roughly 800 incidents of shelling before. Nevertheless they still...
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Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky admitted to Der Spiegel he refused to implement the 2015 Minsk II peace deal with Russia. Germany and France said Kiev used the agreement to buy time to prepare for war.
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War was inevitable outcome of 2014 U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an interview with Die Zeit, published on December 7, that “the 2014 Minsk agreement was an attempt to give time to Ukraine. It…used this time to become stronger as can be seen today. The...
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February 18, 2022
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John Pilger
Marshall McLuhan’s prophecy that “the successor to politics will be propaganda” has happened. Raw propaganda is now the rule in Western democracies, especially the US and Britain On matters of war and peace, ministerial deceit is reported as news. Inconvenient facts are censored, demons are...
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French President Emmanuel Macron and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had an intense argument over the phone about Ukraine just four days before Moscow’s forces invaded the country.
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". . Putin then took issue with Zelensky’s apparent refusal to negotiate with pro-Kremlin Ukrainian separatists, which infuriated the French president and prompted him to exclaim in audible frustration: “I don’t know where your lawyer learned law!”
Le 1er janvier 2022, la France prend la présidence du Conseil de l'Union européenne. En entamant son mandat le président français entend pousser de nombreuses réformes auprès de ses partenaires. Mais la guerre en Ukraine bouleverse ses plans. L'Europe, stupéfaite, doit alors affronter sur son...
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Macron and Putin negotiated about Ukraine a while ago
(This phone call is between Putin and Macron, four days before the invasion, taken from the above linked documentary.)
It was after that, the invasion started.
Months later, Merkle admitted that they were not in the Minsk negotiations in good faith. Their intention was only to give Ukraine time to arm up and oppress ethnic Russians in the Donbas.