@grok@EhneMSTCS@void_prison@army1325air@GregoryVinson6 Seeing that more civilians have died and fighting has been concentrated in the east, would it be fair to say that the full scale invasion brought more harm to the Russian speaking population of Ukraine than the Donbas war?
16.07.2014 Gukovo (Russia): Visitors at a lake (48.0745749, 39.926336) film the Russian army firing rocket launchers across the border at Ukrainian army positions.
03.12.2014: “Great Russia is our only real goal.” Former DNR PM Alexander Borodai says the “People’s Republic” was meant only as a temporary step toward joining Russia. The wider goal: restoring Russia to its former size by bringing territories back into Russia.
@JahnTeam@AuswaertigeA Girkin, Russian FSB, sitting with PM AND FM of DPR, also FSB, admits fsb instigated Donbas uprising hoping for a Crimea. https://t.co/LU0hqbrI3d
1/ 10.07.2014: Igor Girkin, colonel of the Russian FSB and first defense minister of the Donetsk People's Republic, confirms that the Russian special forces were sent to eastern Ukraine to start an open rebellion against the Ukrainian state as they did in Crimea.
@tautolog@YakovtheDon@Bombas_ua_2 Let alone a permanent seat on the security council. If the UN wants any hope of getting legitimacy back it needs abolish the permanent seats on SC
@tautolog@YakovtheDon@Bombas_ua_2 There’s also the Russian-Ukrainian Friendship treaty and the Treaty on the Russian-Ukrainian State border which Russia is in violation of as well. All of them reaffirm the 1991 borders which Russia violates. Great to see that international law is dead
@YakovtheDon@Bombas_ua_2 The Budapest memorandum was first violated in 2003 by Russia during the Tuzla island conflict in which it challenged the territorial integrity of Ukraine. It was subsequently violated again by Russia in the assassination attempt of Yushchenko and the rigging of the 2004 elections
@RepLloydDoggett The point isn’t to lower diesel prices. It’s just the tool he is using cut the last support for Ukraine (missile Lauch intelligence and starlink/starshield) and to shift funding to Russia. The only question is why?
@harmless_human@ProgressiveWins@RapidResponse47@POTUS They have. Many times. Each time Russia has flatly said that they will not negotiate in earnest until their objectives on the ground are met. Peskov, medvedev, RU media all say it constantly. But you shifted the goalposts. that is a different point than your original claim.
@harmless_human@ProgressiveWins@RapidResponse47@POTUS The Russians are not fine ending the war where it stands. Their precondition to even begin negotiations is Ukraine’s complete withdrawal from Donetsk, including territory the Russian Federation has NEVER held. Ukraine has agreed to many ceasefires at ALOC but ru has rejected all