Russian Foreign Ministry rejects Macron’s claims that Putin doesn’t want peace. 🇷🇺🇫🇷 Russia emphasizes its commitment to the Minsk agreements for resolving the Ukraine crisis. #Russia #Macron #Ukraine #MinskAgreements #PeaceTalks

https://kokcha.news/6663/russian-foreign-ministry-dismisses-macrons-claims-putin-doesnt-want-peace/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Security guarantees for Ukraine by the USA were signed into the #BudapestMemorandum by Clinton in 1994

Russia occupied Crimea and Donbas during Obama, who didn’t do anything, Europe mediated the #MinskAgreements

In Trump’s 1st term, the war in #Donbas continued, albeit slower. Estonia went first in sending some Javelins to #Ukraine, which Trump copied

But Putin also built the #Crimea Bridge during Donald Trump. He did nothing, concentrating on Hunter Biden’s Laptop instead

BIDEN’S WAR!
#NAFO

I bet Putin is shitting himself hearing you say it Neville....

#Putin #Starmer #Ukraine #Russia #MinskAgreements #BudapestMemorandum

Hintergrundinfo zur Erinnerung: Bereits 23 Tage nach der Unterzeichnung von Minsk I flammten die Kämpfe erneut auf.

Welche Friedensverträge hat #Russland in den letzten Jahrzehnten überhaupt eingehalten?

#MinskAgreements

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protokoll_von_Minsk

Die #Ukraine braucht kein weiteres Friedensabkommen oder schriftliche Sicherheitsgarantie, derer hat es schon genug gegeben!

#BudapesterMemorandum
#MinskAgreements

Eine militärische Niederlage Russlands samt Befreiung der vielen unterjochten Völker der Russischen "Föderation" wäre die einzige dauerhafte Friedensgarantie dafür, dass die imperialen Bestrebungen Russlands aufhören. Ähnlich der Zerschlagung des Habsburgerreichs.

#Poland journalist describes his experiences from the “demilitarised zone” as implemented by #Russia after 2015 #MinskAgreements:

To understand the conditions in such a zone, one needs to know what the agreement was at the time. Both sides agreed to an immediate and full ceasefire in the Donbas combat area. They agreed that both sides would withdraw heavy weapons to a distance of at least 50 km for artillery of 100 mm calibre and larger; at least 70 km for multi-barrel rocket launchers; and at least 140 km for Tornado-S, Uragan, Smiercz and Tochka-U tactical rocket systems.

The author doesn’t describe the broader context that Russia never implemented even the first step - “immediate and full ceasefire”. In 2014 in defiance of the Minsk 1 Russia stormed Donetsk Airport, in 2015 in defiance of Minsk 2 Russia stormed Debaltseve. But he does describe how it looked on the ground in Avdiivka where he was in February 2015:

On arrival at the complex of buildings that housed the forward base, we immediately descended into the basement as Russian artillery shells were exploding all around us. After an hour or so the shelling stopped and we were able to move above ground level. We crossed the sections between buildings uncovered towards the Russian positions by running because of possible sniper fire. Ukrainian soldiers showed me the distinctive explosion funnels of 155mm calibre shells, which the agreement said would be located 50km away, along with howitzers. On a large square stood a corrugated sheet metal structure chopped up with shells. All around was a lot of artillery-damaged equipment.

Interestingly, he was also allowed to the Russian side of the front line and that’s what he saw there:

Until late summer 2015. The Russians were still letting me into the so-called separatist republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. This was done in such a way that, having obtained the relevant documents on the Ukrainian side, I would walk out of the Ukrainian blockpost on foot and march across a roughly 700-metre strip of no-man’s land to the separatist-Russian blockpost. (…) Already on the Donetsk side, tanks and combat vehicles were a common sight. Artillery batteries were spread out between blocks of flats. This was particularly perfidious, as Ukrainians responded to such shelling with their own. Separatists later filmed the shelled residential areas as proof of the Ukrainians’ “criminal” actions.

Source: https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/strefa-zdemilitaryzowana-na-rosyjsko-ukrainskim-froncie-to-nie-bedzie-latwy-kawalek/e6tv2c5 (in Polish)

NATO’s Intensified Exercises a Prep to Attack Russia?

https://www.defensemirror.com/feature/90/NATO___s_Intensified_Exercises_a_Prep_to_Attack_Russia_

#NATO #BALTOPS24 #SteadfastDefender2024 #Russia #DogfightExercise #F16Jets #Su35 #MiG29 #Belarus #PESCO #INFtreaty #MissileStrike #AWACS #NuclearWeapons #MinskAgreements #G7Meeting #RussianAssets #UkraineWar #Ukraine

Ich überlege gerade, wann @SWagenknecht eigentlich #Nazi geworden ist?

Diese Frage erscheint mir folgerichtig, da #Wagenknecht immer wieder #Putin's Behauptung folgt, #Selenski sei Nazi und er hätte #MinskAgreements gebrochen.
#Lanz
#DieLinke
#Putinknecht
#PutinWarCriminal