10 facts you should know about russian military aggression against Ukraine19
“The real goal of Putin is the collapse of the Ukrainian statehood in its present form, the destruction of the Ukrainian statehood, the destabilization of Ukraine, so that in its current form it ceases to exist, was reassembled in some new form with some, perhaps, a new Constitution.”
Fact 1: Russia planned military aggression against Ukraine in advance. Victory of the revolution of dignity was only a convenient pretext
Russia launched its well-planned armed aggression against Ukraine on 20 February 2014 with the military operation of its Armed Forces on seizing a part of the Ukrainian territory — Crimean peninsula. This date is not even denied by the Russian Ministry of Defense, as it is indicated on the departmental medal “For the return of Crimea”. In fact, only the next day Viktor Yanukovych fled from Kyiv; and it was already 22 February 2014 that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Resolution “On the dissociation of the President of Ukraine from fulfillment of constitutional powers and appointment of early presidential elections in Ukraine”, used by Russia as a pretext for accusations of the alleged “unconstitutional coup in Ukraine”.
Fact 2: russian aggression aimed at destroying ukraine as an independent state
Illegal occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol was just the first Russian step aimed at undermining independence and sovereignty of Ukraine. The Kremlin has always been firmly convinced that Russia will never become a world leader without control over Ukraine, meanwhile a democratic and prosperous Ukraine is a threat to the current authoritarian rule in Russia. That is why the next step of the Russian aggression was an attempt to destabilize the situation in the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine in order to fo ..
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