Ukraine has never been a "target", let alone of "Russian invasion". Ukraine has been a target of Anglo-American colonialism that has subjugated the country 100%. I am wondering, why do you feel an urge to say something about Russia at all - if the whole piece that I translated speaks about Ukraine being a slave market for American and NATO appetites. Russia never "invaded Ukraine", Russia interfered in the 8-year-long ethnic cleansing of Donbass, which is populated by Russian Ukrainians. The great journalist John Pilger wrote in The Guardian in 2014: "In Ukraine, the US is dragging us towards war with Russia" -https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/ukraine-us-war-russia-john-pilger
Nazism in Ukraine is a long-time problem that started with their glorification of Hitler and seeing Hitler as a liberator. You don't thin that Ukrainian SS divisions, Bandera's OUN-B and Nazi collaborators were "resisting" Russia or were somehow "fighting" something, when they murdered "communists", Jews, Roma and Poles?
Here is the timeline of how and why Russia stepped in - and not in Ukraine, but in Donbass. Those who scream about Ukrainian independence, for some reason do not acknowledge the same right to independence for Donbass people.
So, here is what happened:
On 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."
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
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/
“On 24 February, Putin invoked Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, which provides for mutual military assistance in the framework of a defensive alliance.
In order to make the Russian intervention totally illegal in the eyes of the public we deliberately hid the fact that the war actually started on February 16.”
On February 27, the Ukrainian government agreed to enter into negotiations with Russia.
But a few hours later, the European Union voted a budget of 450 million euros to supply arms to the Ukraine, adding fuel to the fire.
From then on, the Ukrainians felt that they did not need to reach an agreement. The resistance of the Azov militia in Mariupol even led to a boost of 500 million euros for weapons (March).
https://www.rferl.org/a/european-union-sanctions-russia-ukraine-borrell/31748462.html
“Western ministers who seek to collapse the Russian economy and make the Russian people suffer, or even call for the assassination of Putin, show (even if they have partially reversed the form of their words, but not the substance!) that our leaders are no better than those we hate—for sanctioning Russian athletes in the Para-Olympic Games or Russian artists has nothing to do with fighting Putin.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9BGOE_eVQc
https://lequotidien.lu/politique-societe/jean-asselborn-eliminer-physiquement-vladimir-poutine/
A week after the assassination calls, the New York Times also allowed a sinister opinion piece “How do we deal with a Superpower led by a war criminal?” (NYT, Thomas Friedman, 10/04/22)
Let us remember that collective punishment is forbidden by the Geneva Conventions.
