Well, now I have the time as I am already at home. But I do not know how can I describe more or less short all the history of ukrainian-russian relations and especially what happened during a year and a half.
Anyway the common russian attitude to Ukraine as a small and not so smart copy of Russia should be known. But the information about Ukraine on russian TV was not just not only during this year. It was all over the twelve years I spend there, because they consider Ukraine as a country which is above Russia in some years and that's why they search in their history examples of what is going on in Ukraine now. Though I believe that they are only at the beginning of creating society to be an active part of political life, and that has already been done in Ukraine.
As to me the only thing done by US is that they helped with the schoolbooks in the 90s and that was the contribution to the development of our society as it always works with education.
We had during last 25 years 3 revolutions in Kyiv and the first two were without a victim or a broken car or shop-window in 1991 to proclaim independence and 2004 to protect the right of people to have honest elections (there was the choice between Yushchenko and the same Yanukovich whom we did not want). Maybe in 2004 it was partly supported by US but Yushchenko was much more popular anyway even in situation when all the public channels said only bad news about him.
And maybe this is the reason why ukrainians were sure that 1 million of people on the main square are enough to claim for the Yanukovich's retirement. It was the biggest and the longest revolution. 1 million were just in one day on 1 December (the next day after police clean out the square and beat the people that came to support association with Europe). I was still in SPb in those times and after that news I was sure 100% Yanukovich can not be a president of Ukraine any more, because it never happened. But that meeting (about association) was not that large. What made ukrainian people to claim for the new elections was the violence occured on the square and that's why there could not be any compromise with Yanukovich.
And as now the internet is spread all over Ukraine people could organize that huge Maidan because there were groups collecting money for the people living on Maidan, wood to make fire as it was winter, and the wires when the situation get worse after the first three men dead, there were groups of support, of information, facts, fotos, videos, people coming together and helping the others to get to Maidan. I have friends which were on Maidan almost every day after work. Nobody paid them. The participation of US authorities was of that kind that they visited Maidan and knew its peaceful orientation and they tried to make negotiations between opposition leaders and the president as a third party, because from the very beginning Yanukovich behaved himself as if nothing happened. Though there was no one leader of Maidan. Defferent groups of people who did not want to live in a country where you can not be safe on a meeting in the centre of the capital. Of course, there were lots of additional claims - anticorruption, antibureacracy, antipolice, economical development and so on.
And the culmination was at the end of February when the anti-terrorist operation was announced in the centre and the police began to shoot unarmed people (more than hundred men died). Then there was some agreement signed between opposition leaders and the president but as they have no authority to sign when they came to Maidan and said about it, it was not accepted. And the next night Yanukovich escaped. In Ukraine after 112 people and 13 policemen dead it was impossible for him to stay a president.
What I could not believe was that in Ukraine they found people who began to shoot in the others. But now there are facts that many of them were russian citizens from the General Staff of the Armed Forces' Main Intelligence Directorate of Russia (the modern KGB) sent to Ukraine on a business-trip. And there were some cargos with "humanitarian help" from Russia consisted of bombs to use against ukrainians even the previous winter when there was no war between our countries, but it's difficult to explain. We can only guess what Putin thought about all these events. Does he believe in what he is saying or is he just teasing the whole world?
But the russian version of the latest revolution is that everybody on Maidan was paid by the americans with the goal to change the ukrainian government for the manageable anti-russian nationalists. And that Ukraine soon will stop supplying arms to Russia as the 80% of russian weapons depends on ukrainian components even nuclear weapons which are on service in Dnepropetrovsk. And that russian-speaking ukrainians and russians in Ukraine want to be russian citizens and Russia should help them to unite with Russia with the territories, of course. And that speaking in russian is now forbidden in Ukraine, and that Ukraine is no more a country because it has no president. And there is no ukrainian language, it's just a dialect of Polish. And Ukraine has no history as it was always the part of Russia and so on. It would be funny if they would not start war justifying their actions by all this stuff.
But from the very beginning when the oil price was more than 100 dollars and there were no sanctions on Russia they got a lot by buying people. It was like that in the Crimea. There were russian troops but a person could get money for just staying near russian soldiers claiming for Russian referendum, ukrainian soldiers received money for surrendering and changing their military service for russian. Then on Donbass they began with the same tactics but there were people fighting with the "russian world" coming and there were pro-ukrainian victims. Several in March and that's why in April ukrainian army went to Donbass and we announced mobilization, but still the first operation in Donetsk airport occured only at the end of May, when it was occupied by russian troops (Chechen in particular) and we understood that if we would not start fighting we would loose Donetsk region as in the Crimea it all started with the airport. And then it all began. We lost 10 airplanes and 11 helicopters during May-July 2014. The russian part did not use the aviation because they are still trying to say that it's not russian troops but local people fighting with ukrainian authorities. And in case they could get an airport they would start using russian aviation telling that it's ukrainian left. The airports in Luhansk and Donetsk were totally destroyed before ukrainian troops left them. Now that territory is occupied.
And here we are with the malasian MH17. Of course, there is still investigation though... there are fotos and videos with the russian missile "Buk" wandering about the occupied territory, the shot was from the town controlled by russian troops, there are records of conversation about that "Buk" coming with the people to operate it (evidently they are russian soldiers). And there's one more logic conclusion that ukrainians had nothing in the sky to shoot at, but before the MH17 crash we had 21 flying vehicles shot by terrorists.
And now I do think that sanctions work, because there are no more money now to buy ukrainians as they did a year ago, the Crimea is 80% less in production and we still supply them with water, electricity and food, as the supplying from Russia never started and the construction of the bridge to Kerch never started, Russia sent more than 43% of its budget on the military needs during Jan-Feb 2015, so it can be exhausted in the not so far a future. But this figure reminds me that they want to make an effort to occupy some more territory in the nearest future. Of course, the minimum they need to keep the Crimea is the road to the Crimea, but I am sure russians will not be strong enough to get it.
So, in short I tried )))
Anyway the common russian attitude to Ukraine as a small and not so smart copy of Russia should be known. But the information about Ukraine on russian TV was not just not only during this year. It was all over the twelve years I spend there, because they consider Ukraine as a country which is above Russia in some years and that's why they search in their history examples of what is going on in Ukraine now. Though I believe that they are only at the beginning of creating society to be an active part of political life, and that has already been done in Ukraine.
As to me the only thing done by US is that they helped with the schoolbooks in the 90s and that was the contribution to the development of our society as it always works with education.
We had during last 25 years 3 revolutions in Kyiv and the first two were without a victim or a broken car or shop-window in 1991 to proclaim independence and 2004 to protect the right of people to have honest elections (there was the choice between Yushchenko and the same Yanukovich whom we did not want). Maybe in 2004 it was partly supported by US but Yushchenko was much more popular anyway even in situation when all the public channels said only bad news about him.
And maybe this is the reason why ukrainians were sure that 1 million of people on the main square are enough to claim for the Yanukovich's retirement. It was the biggest and the longest revolution. 1 million were just in one day on 1 December (the next day after police clean out the square and beat the people that came to support association with Europe). I was still in SPb in those times and after that news I was sure 100% Yanukovich can not be a president of Ukraine any more, because it never happened. But that meeting (about association) was not that large. What made ukrainian people to claim for the new elections was the violence occured on the square and that's why there could not be any compromise with Yanukovich.
And as now the internet is spread all over Ukraine people could organize that huge Maidan because there were groups collecting money for the people living on Maidan, wood to make fire as it was winter, and the wires when the situation get worse after the first three men dead, there were groups of support, of information, facts, fotos, videos, people coming together and helping the others to get to Maidan. I have friends which were on Maidan almost every day after work. Nobody paid them. The participation of US authorities was of that kind that they visited Maidan and knew its peaceful orientation and they tried to make negotiations between opposition leaders and the president as a third party, because from the very beginning Yanukovich behaved himself as if nothing happened. Though there was no one leader of Maidan. Defferent groups of people who did not want to live in a country where you can not be safe on a meeting in the centre of the capital. Of course, there were lots of additional claims - anticorruption, antibureacracy, antipolice, economical development and so on.
And the culmination was at the end of February when the anti-terrorist operation was announced in the centre and the police began to shoot unarmed people (more than hundred men died). Then there was some agreement signed between opposition leaders and the president but as they have no authority to sign when they came to Maidan and said about it, it was not accepted. And the next night Yanukovich escaped. In Ukraine after 112 people and 13 policemen dead it was impossible for him to stay a president.
What I could not believe was that in Ukraine they found people who began to shoot in the others. But now there are facts that many of them were russian citizens from the General Staff of the Armed Forces' Main Intelligence Directorate of Russia (the modern KGB) sent to Ukraine on a business-trip. And there were some cargos with "humanitarian help" from Russia consisted of bombs to use against ukrainians even the previous winter when there was no war between our countries, but it's difficult to explain. We can only guess what Putin thought about all these events. Does he believe in what he is saying or is he just teasing the whole world?
But the russian version of the latest revolution is that everybody on Maidan was paid by the americans with the goal to change the ukrainian government for the manageable anti-russian nationalists. And that Ukraine soon will stop supplying arms to Russia as the 80% of russian weapons depends on ukrainian components even nuclear weapons which are on service in Dnepropetrovsk. And that russian-speaking ukrainians and russians in Ukraine want to be russian citizens and Russia should help them to unite with Russia with the territories, of course. And that speaking in russian is now forbidden in Ukraine, and that Ukraine is no more a country because it has no president. And there is no ukrainian language, it's just a dialect of Polish. And Ukraine has no history as it was always the part of Russia and so on. It would be funny if they would not start war justifying their actions by all this stuff.
But from the very beginning when the oil price was more than 100 dollars and there were no sanctions on Russia they got a lot by buying people. It was like that in the Crimea. There were russian troops but a person could get money for just staying near russian soldiers claiming for Russian referendum, ukrainian soldiers received money for surrendering and changing their military service for russian. Then on Donbass they began with the same tactics but there were people fighting with the "russian world" coming and there were pro-ukrainian victims. Several in March and that's why in April ukrainian army went to Donbass and we announced mobilization, but still the first operation in Donetsk airport occured only at the end of May, when it was occupied by russian troops (Chechen in particular) and we understood that if we would not start fighting we would loose Donetsk region as in the Crimea it all started with the airport. And then it all began. We lost 10 airplanes and 11 helicopters during May-July 2014. The russian part did not use the aviation because they are still trying to say that it's not russian troops but local people fighting with ukrainian authorities. And in case they could get an airport they would start using russian aviation telling that it's ukrainian left. The airports in Luhansk and Donetsk were totally destroyed before ukrainian troops left them. Now that territory is occupied.
And here we are with the malasian MH17. Of course, there is still investigation though... there are fotos and videos with the russian missile "Buk" wandering about the occupied territory, the shot was from the town controlled by russian troops, there are records of conversation about that "Buk" coming with the people to operate it (evidently they are russian soldiers). And there's one more logic conclusion that ukrainians had nothing in the sky to shoot at, but before the MH17 crash we had 21 flying vehicles shot by terrorists.
And now I do think that sanctions work, because there are no more money now to buy ukrainians as they did a year ago, the Crimea is 80% less in production and we still supply them with water, electricity and food, as the supplying from Russia never started and the construction of the bridge to Kerch never started, Russia sent more than 43% of its budget on the military needs during Jan-Feb 2015, so it can be exhausted in the not so far a future. But this figure reminds me that they want to make an effort to occupy some more territory in the nearest future. Of course, the minimum they need to keep the Crimea is the road to the Crimea, but I am sure russians will not be strong enough to get it.
So, in short I tried )))
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