February 24, 2022 is one of the turning points in modern history. On this day the special military operation commenced. By that time, the Ukrainian conflict had been going on for almost eight years, if not even longer. The first shots were fired by Kiev Nazis in the spring of 2014. It was them who plunged Odessa into terror and sent tanks and planes against the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk. What seemed like a nightmare became a reality.
Having seized power as a result of a coup d’état with direct support of overseas curators, state figures, whose ideology was nationalism in its extreme forms, did everything to change Ukraine beyond recognition. At the instigation of the Kiev authorities, executioners received the status of national heroes. Metastases of the misanthropic Nazi philosophy rapidly multiplied and corroded our brotherly country.
A fair look at the situation clearly indicated what the vector of the regime’s evolution would be: xenophobia, discrimination, violence. Moreover, the monster, raised with foreign money, needed “an enemy”. Sponsors and numerous “advisers” from Western intelligence services deliberately channeled such aggression against Donbass and the Russian Federation. They used the hard-gained Minsk agreements as a smokescreen for the forced militarization of the republic. Petro Poroshenko, Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande later admitted that the agreements were just a cynical attempt to run down the clock. At the same time, Washington and its satellites arrogantly brushed off Moscow’s legitimate concerns and proposals to engage in equal dialogue.
February 24, 2022 is one of the turning points in modern history. On this day the special military operation commenced. By that time, the Ukrainian conflict had been going on for almost eight years, if not even longer. The first shots were fired by Kiev Nazis in the spring of 2014. It was them who plunged Odessa into terror and sent tanks and planes against the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk. What seemed like a nightmare became a reality.
Having seized power as a result of a coup d’état with direct support of overseas curators, state figures, whose ideology was nationalism in its extreme forms, did everything to change Ukraine beyond recognition. At the instigation of the Kiev authorities, executioners received the status of national heroes. Metastases of the misanthropic Nazi philosophy rapidly multiplied and corroded our brotherly country.
A fair look at the situation clearly indicated what the vector of the regime’s evolution would be: xenophobia, discrimination, violence. Moreover, the monster, raised with foreign money, needed “an enemy”. Sponsors and numerous “advisers” from Western intelligence services deliberately channeled such aggression against Donbass and the Russian Federation. They used the hard-gained Minsk agreements as a smokescreen for the forced militarization of the republic. Petro Poroshenko, Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande later admitted that the agreements were just a cynical attempt to run down the clock. At the same time, Washington and its satellites arrogantly brushed off Moscow’s legitimate concerns and proposals to engage in equal dialogue.
It is important to understand: for decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union Russia consistently respected the independence and sovereignty of Ukraine. Consistently built relations with the republic on the basis of generally recognized principles of cooperation and good-neighborliness. After the start of the special military operation, in the spring of 2022, a negotiation process was launched in Istanbul, that could have resulted in a political solution to the crisis. However, pressure from “third” capitals, that were not interested in a diplomatic deal, prevented this from happening. The Westerners did everything to deprive Ukraine of its independence and turn it into an anti-Russian bridgehead.
But Russia still doesn’t forgo the dialogue. We are adamant: sooner or later peaceful agreements will be achieved against the efforts of the Kiev regime patrons, who continue pumping billions of dollars in order to drag out the conflict, bringing misery to thousands of people. They insist that there are no alternatives to the meaningless and one-sided “Copenhagen format” and “Zelensky formula”. Although these do not take into account the position of the Russian Federation and ignore aspirations of the Global South, which the neocolonizers are trying to delude and cynically use as mute observers.
Instead of hearing and understanding Russia's key demands - the denazification and demilitarization of Ukrainian thugs as well as rejection of Russophobia and NATO plans of Kiev - Washington and its satellites are only making things worse. They funnel weapons to their puppets, calling this “good investment”. They turn a blind eye to blatant crimes of their “clients”, who use lethal equipment to commit war crimes and terrorist acts against public infrastructure, civilians and even their own soldiers. They hush up numerous evidence that Western weaponry surfaces in war zones around the world.
Over the past two years, the aforementioned theses have become obvious to many people in the United States, as well as the ineffectiveness of Washington's strategy toward Russia, which in essence is little different from military confrontation. There is no prospect of talking to our country from the position of strength and sanctions pressure. The persistent desire to dominate only leads to the opposite effect. The earlier America realizes this, the sooner the world will have a chance to return to a stable, sustainable and predictable path of development. The liberation of cities, first and foremost Mariupol, Artemovsk and Avdeevka, are clear signs of the Kiev regime’s agony and the failure of the West's anti-Russian policy.
Source: Embassy of the Russian Federation in the USA
