Once again, "not justified" is also a FAKE, just as "unprovoked".

3 min readSep 9, 2022

Once again, "not justified" is also a FAKE, just as "unprovoked". Russian intervention was 1) called for (Donbass asked them to intervene, otherwise they were threatened with extermination) 2) justified by the international law 100%.

So this is what happened prior to Russian intervention and why it had no choice.

Upon "final solution" implemented by Ukraine on Donbas civilians, Russia had no choice, and indeed, that would be recognized in case of any other country. The timeline:

February 8, 2022:

"Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Monday refused direct negotiations with rebels in the east of the country.

Speaking during a news briefing with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Kuleba said the direct talks with representatives of rebel-controlled Donetsk and Luhansk are not included in the Minsk agreements brokered by France, Germany and Russia in 2015.

Kuleba added that any conversations with these rebels would allow Russia to transform itself from the party of the conflict to the mediator by insisting on the direct talks.

Earlier on Tuesday Kuleba said that Ukraine has received more than 1,000 tons of military aid worth around 1.5 billion US dollars."

https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/europe/ukraine-fm-wont-settle-for-dialogue-with-rebels-articleshow.html

"On 17 February, President Joe Biden announced that Russia would attack Ukraine in the next few days.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/17/politics/joe-biden-russia/index.html

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But the day *before*, on the 16th of February, the artillery shelling of the population of Donbas increased dramatically, as the daily reports of the OSCE observers show. From a few dozen shells to around 300 on the 16th, over 600 on the 17th, 1400 on the 18th, and an average of 1200 per day until the 22nd. Two days before Russia moved in.

On 23 February, the two Republics finally asked for military assistance from Russia.

These barrages were an invitation for war.

“If he decided to intervene, Putin could invoke the international obligation of “Responsibility To Protect” (R2P). But he knew that whatever its nature or scale, the intervention would trigger a storm of sanctions. Therefore, whether Russian intervention were limited to the Donbas or went further to put pressure on the West for the status of the Ukraine, the price to pay would be the same. This is what he explained in his speech on February 21.

On that day, he agreed to the request of the Duma and recognized the independence of the two Donbas Republics and, at the same time, he signed friendship and assistance treaties with them.”

https://www.thepostil.com/the-military-situation-in-the-ukraine/

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