Lavrov sammanfattade grundorsakerna som ledde fram till konflikten i Ukraina när han talade i säkerhetsrådet i onsdags. Där hänvisade han till fyra grundorsaker
- Maidan-kuppen
- Förbudet mot ryska som officiellt språk
- Vapenmakt mot dem som protesterade i östra Ukraina
- att Minsk-överenskommelsen aldrig fullföljdes
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1962428/
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No one during the meetings in Copenhagen or Bürgenstock mentioned the root causes. There are many of them. We discussed them at length, including yesterday. They include the coup, the ban on the Russian language, military and physical actions with the use of the army against the Ukrainian regions which refused to recognise the legitimacy of those who came to power as a result of the coup, and the Minsk agreements, which no one was going to act upon.
Look at the evolution of this entire process. We are being told that Russia must fall back to the 1991 borders. The problem is that we have been lied to at all times.Had the agreement that President Yanukovich signed with the opposition in February 2014 been fulfilled (it consisted of creating a government of national unity and preparing early presidential elections), Ukraine would still be within the 1991 borders. But this agreement was foiled by the very people from the opposition who signed it. After the coup, they occupied administrative buildings and declared that they were cancelling the status of the Russian language in Ukraine and demanded that Crimea be liberated from the Russian population, that is, the Ukrainian citizens living in Crimea. It was not possible to keep Ukraine within the 1991 borders. Crimea held a referendum. None of the objective observers had any doubts about this expression of will. It reunited with Russia.
In eastern Ukraine, those who refused to accept the coup were declared terrorists. Armed forces, combat aviation, and artillery were used against them. They began to resist. This part of Ukraine had ceased to be such back then in fact.
The Minsk agreements stipulated that these republics, which initially declared independence, would remain within Ukraine, but they should be accorded a special, not too complicated, status which included the right to use the Russian language, to have their own police (just like here, every state has their own police), and to be involved in consultations when appointing prosecutors and judges. Not much, really. It’s not much different from what French President Macron promised Corsica. I’m not sure if he will succeed in delivering on that promise. Had the Minsk agreements been implemented, Ukraine would still be within the 1991 borders minus Crimea. Nobody even mentioned Crimea at that time. It didn’t work out, either.
