Ukraine is illegitimate as a state. It has been since 2014
Russia put forward a new ultimatum to Kiev. Russia wants
Ukraine to sign a new package of agreements to replace the now defunct
Minsk Accords. Russia wants Ukraine to renounce all claims to the Crimea
and the independent republics of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Russia put forward a new ultimatum to Kiev, Telegram-channel
Legitimate reports. Volodymyr Zelensky was given 12 hours to make a
decision, after which Russia will kick off the second phase of the
military campaign with the use of military aircraft and warships, the
channel said.
Putin voiced the first ultimatum on February 23, when he said that in
order for Moscow and Kiev to negotiate peace, Ukraine will need to:
- conduct demilitarization,
- refuse to join NATO,
- hold direct negotiations with the DPR and LPR.
The second ultimatum came from the head of the Donetsk People's
Republic Denis Pushilin, who demanded the peaceful liberation of the
territory of the republic to its administrative borders. However,'s
Kiev's Bandera regime refused to fulfill all of Russia's conditions, and
Putin was forced to launch a military operation to coerce Ukraine to
peace.
Ukraine's Bandera regime on the brink of destruction
By the afternoon of February 24, the Russian troops had reached the
left bank of the Dnieper River and approached the suburbs of Kiev.
Ukraine has lost its air force, air defense and navy, as well as major
civilian airports. The authorities are demoralized, it is only radicals
in the Donbass that resist, which was expected.
Sergei Kuyun, the head of the A-95 consulting group, told Strana
that there were no supplies of diesel fuel coming to Ukraine either
from Russia or Belarus anymore. Ukraine's diesel fuel reserves will be
enough for about a month, but they may run out completely a lot earlier,
given the panic and feverish demand. It is not ruled out that Ukraine
will soon experience food shortages that will bring the end of the
regime even closer.
Russia will never fight on its own territory again — this is the main
message of Vladimir Putin's speech that he delivered announcing the
start of the military special operation.
Russia still ready for dialogue, despite war
"Russia will always be ready for dialogue that will bring everyone
back to justice and the principles of the UN Charter," Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov said at a meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Shah
Mehmood Qureshi.
The Russian Federation is ready for a new Yalta conference — Putin will not talk to comedian Zelensky.
Ukrainian regime has been illegal since 2014
The Minsk Accords were created to give Ukraine a chance to become a
civilised state. The Ukrainian authorities should have changed its
Constitution immediately after the illegal Maidan coup in 2014. All
political forces in all regions of Ukraine should have sent their
representatives to Kiev to elaborate amendments to the Ukrainian
Constitution. However, Ukraine chose to pretend that there was no coup
at all, that all those people, who had been killed in the streets of
Kiev and burned alive in the House of Trade Union in Odessa, did not
even exist. No one has ever been punished for those bloody crimes. Yet,
Ukraine refused to claim responsibility for all those deaths.
Ukraine's President Victor Yanukovych was toppled in an illegal coup.
This suggests that everything that has been happening in Ukraine up
until this moment is illegitimate. However, the Ukrainians considered
their new regime legitimate enough.
Nevertheless, both the Donetsk People's Republic, and the Luhansk
People's Republic refused to obey the new illegitimate regime in
Ukraine. It just so happened that a big part of the state chose not to
obey its laws. They took up arms to defend their sovereignty.
Ukrainian stars call for peace altogether. They didn't 8 years ago
After Putin announced the military operation to demilitarise Ukraine,
Russian social media exploded. Many public figures, including many
famous people of Ukrainian origin, who live and work in Russia, started
calling for nothing but peace.
"Please stop this war!! Ukraine wants peace, we all want peace!!" many wrote on Instagram, Facebook, etc.
For example, Ukrainian pop singer Svetlana Loboda, who performs a lot in Russia, wrote on Instagram:
"My heart is breaking! I am in contact with my loved ones in Ukraine
since 5 in the morning. How can all this be possible?! Dear God, stop
all this! In tears."
However, one may come across comments from supporters of the DPR and LPR, who wrote messages like this one:
- "Our hearts were breaking when Ukraine was bombing the Donbass,
killing civilians! Where were you, dear Svetlana, when your Ukraine was
bombing Donetsk and Luhansk? Why were you and all others like you silent
for eight years when Ukraine was bombing the Donbass? Were you in tears
for the people of the Donbass when Ukrainian military men were killing
children there? Why didn't you call for peace before? You should have
been in tears since 2014!"
- "It's so sad that a county like Ukraine has succumbed to the USA and
sold itself as a power completely. The clown that you have in power
today is a US puppet," a user wrote in the comments to Loboda's post.
Another Ukrainian star, TV host Zhanna Badoyeva (Badoyeva is known
for her travel shows, in which she describes how common people live in
different countries of the world), who also works in Russia a lot,
wrote:
"The most terrible morning of February 24, 2022. Fear and horror."
And people commented:
- "We are in Donetsk, and we feel fear and horror for eight years. Why didn't you say anything before?"
- "You haven't been to the Donbass. You would be living in fear and horror for eight years, like we are living here now!"
- "There was fear and horror in Odessa, where common people were burned alive, and no one was punished for that! Unsub!"
- "Why didn't you go to Donbass to show how people live there??? Did
you forget about the Donbass or were you scared to go there to film your
TV show?"
- "When eight years ago Donetsk did not support the coup in Kiev, when
Yanukovych fled, and Turchinov sent troops to Donetsk, everybody in
Ukraine were yelling in unison: "Separatists!" We have been living in
the DPR for eight years now and still nobody cares. No one from Ukraine
regretted it and no one took the side of Donetsk. Our children know what
bomb explosions are, how shells sound when they arrive, and how heavy
weapons sound when they fire. None of the famous people had called for
peace back then. Now everyone remembered suddenly that we are a nation,
that we will win the territories back. You only think about territories,
but do you think about the people who live on those territories? I have
no joy from the decisions made in the Russian Federation, because I no
longer want to run, hide and listen to the sound of bombs and shells. I
did not vote for anyone in Ukraine, in the DPR, in the Russian
Federation, but there is war in my city!"
See more at https://english.pravda.ru/world/150449-russia_ukraine_war/
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