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woooow, hold up! wait a minute! something ain't right! At 16:40 you forget to mention that the protestors took over army depots and that the post 'revolution' regime BANNED the opposition parties... This is somewhat relevant, no? Then at 18:30 you mention that the East of Ukraine feared the coming of 'ukrainian militias'. O...k... and why was that? could it be that such 'militias' were neonazi gangs and that they had already sacked the offices of the pro Yanukovich parties and killed dozens of his supporters all around Ukraine?
Planting trees will not have any tangible effect on climate change. To offset the carbon footprint of one US citizen alone you'd have to plant somewhere around ~1,000 trees... each year... which also means finding locations to plant what would end up being trillions of trees just to offset the US's carbon footprint
Interesting fact - I'm sure that many Brits here don't know that the city of Donetsk, the very heart of Donbass itself, was actually founded by A WELSH ENGINEER! His name was John Hughes and the city itself was initially named "Hughzovka" after him, you can Google it up! He was the one who built the first metal works in the region and basically launched the whole industrialisation process there.. who knows, maybe if it wasn't for him, the region wouldn't have developed so much it did in the Soviet times and there would be no DPR and LPR today)
"Whatever happened to Hughesovka?" is a funny old documentary about Hughes filmed back in the 80s before the fall of the Soviet Union. Today it's only partially available here on RUclips, but I still definitely recommend to see it)
Thank you so much for covering this topic, it's hard to find decent coverage over here in the States and even then it's current events not an explanation of how we got to this point.
The pronunciation is a bit daft even in English. The Rennersonce. The Russian Sardom. The Russians “took their chance” and no mention of the sealed train full of gold and, lol Lenin sent from Germany to sponsor the revolution. No mention of Genrikh Yagoda. The whole sense is of sympathy with the vicious Bolshevism which killed millions of people. Sepastopohle? No mention of Kruschev. Pronunciation of “Gorbach Eff”. This man is a disgrace to the North of England. It is then later “se FASTER pol” What’s goin on, big guy?
Correction: Alexander Zakcharchrenko has not been killed in a restaurant while eating. He has been killed when he wanted to visit the restaurant and died immediatly after he entered the building.
Fun fact: The two options given in the crimean referendum boiled down to a) direct incorporation into Russia b) reinstitution of the crimean constitution of 1992. Which is hugely ambiguous, as there were several crimean constitutions in 1992, leading to very different outcomes. This was criticized, not only because the referendum was not a yes or no question that didn't include the status quo as an option, but also because many experts speculate that option b) would have effectively served as a backdoor for Russia, turning an autonomous Crimea into a russian proxy state whithin Ukraine or outright leading to a slower route to russian incorporation. It was a referendum without a "No" option. Only "Yes" and "Who knows?".
The Crimean politicians aren't idiots, an independent Crimea would've been invaded by Ukraine and ended up like Donetsk and Luhansk. They did well by their people. Crimeans are happy to be rid of the Ukrainian Government corruption and fealty to the United States
@@avibhagan would've ended up as Kharkiv*. Donetsk and Luhansk were captured by russians... Donetsk and Luhansk ended up like they because of presence of the russian forces. What haven't been in Kharkiv..
@@ПавелТкач-э3т Stop lying. They ended up like that because of government violence against opposition supporters and supporters of the ousted president. The coup government, was fascist. The poroshenko government continued the fascism. They decided to kill all the Ukrainian people who don't support the EU and NATO. EU and NATO, supported the violence instead of condemning it. This isn't the first time that NATO has done this.
@@avibhagan Russia is even more corrupt, and "fealty of unites states", whatever that means, it's better to have USA as an Ally than Russia. Ask Japan, Germany and South Korea how its going as Western Ally. Ask North Korea and Iran how its going as Eastern ally.
On your report of the Euro-Maidan Protests you're missing one key part. The protests itself weren't enough to bring down the government but on the 20. February during the protests snipers shot and killed many protesters AND policemen which lead to a chaos which in the end brought down the government. To this day we don't know who these snipers were. But that incident is what caused the regime change in the end.
Well noted. There are many conflicting ideas of who they were. From Ukrainian Security Services(SBU), who as we know were aligned more with Russia at this time, to pro-western forces. Russia claims it was orchestrated by the CIA. Who the heck knows its a juicy mystery for sure
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Would love to see more videos about modern events and recent events and giving details of the history of those events and why they are happening, just like this video! Thank you for the amazing videos and keep up the great work!
Under Austrian administration, Polanisation generally continued much the same as under Commonwealth rule. In exchange for accepting Austrian rule, Polish authorities in Galicia were basically given a free pass to implement Polish education across the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. This led to Ashkenazi Jews generally identifying as Polish nationality rather than German (despite a large-scale Jewish-Germanization campaign in the late 18th Century). Galician Germans were also hugely miscategorized as Polish in Austrian censuses. Austrian census data usually brings up a German Galician statistic of around 60,000, or like 2% of the total population, whereas looking through church records from 1913, we know there were 360,000 German members of the Lutheran Church in Galicia alone. (A lot of German migration into Galicia came from Prussia). Regardless, the effect of all this was significantly inflated Polish population statistics in the region, when in fact Ruthenian nationality would have made up a plurality in the area, if not an absolute majority.
@@daniel-oc6pp Ashkenazi Jews in Galicja were from within Russian Empire which banned them from living really anywhere. Why would Austians(Germans themselves) indetify other Germans as Poles. There were many protestant Poles if you didn't know. They made plurality in the countryside but cities were overwhealmingly Polish.
@@yaroslavromanyuk5669 Kolomoyskyi is on video admitting to having it shot down. Theres no evidence surface to air missiles were used. Mh17 was downed in rebel territory and it stopped rebels advancing. Idiot.
honestly, shockingly well for a Hilbert video. Most western observers skip over the fact that Ukraine is full of far right ultra nationalists... However skipping over the fact that yes, NATO has actively been F'ing hard with Russia, trying to balkanise it and overrun it's former allies.. is still a fail. Doesnt matter if russia is a bully, and you are a model student, if you get roped into vandalising Russia's front door by a different bully I don't care if you get beaten up.
@@anasevi9456 Russia is trying to survive, with the West knocking on their front door of course Russia well react and do something, they are not going to sit idle and let themselves be destroyed. When it comes to geopolitics and war you can bet Russia is putting up a fight.
@@anasevi9456 I mean simply put? Russia doesn't get to decide other countries policies. The countries that have furthest distanced themselves and found joint protection have done comparatively well (Batics, poland, etc.) The one that got stuck as neither fully distanced nor a puppet had critical territory occupied and a major region stolen (in direct violation of agreements between them and Russia). This is regardless of any other fact, no 'provocation' has been close to the level of invasion and annexation of territory, NO other European power has done so. Ultimately, NATO shouldn't have been needed to be brought up if the Russian government had stood by their word, no bullshit about NATO expanding changes that when Ukraine isn't even in NATO.
well your technically correct but this can be only solved when Ukraine finally gets out of the war or create an agreement with Russia or EU that it will be a neutral state between them but at the same time have the sovereign right to defend itself or it promised not to join NATO so it's not technically Ukraine's fault but the west itself
Slight correction: "2014-2022" would mean that the war is over. The correct ones would br "2014-", "2014-today" or "2014-N/A". It seems obvious now but for future reference it may become confusing (for example if in 10 years time someone looks up the Ukrainian conflict)
I doubt that misconception can happen, I mean you just need to watch the first ten 20 seconds of the video or just pay attention to the news to know this is an ongoing war.
You forgot that "Referendum" in Crimea was done after island was fully covered with russian military, and that it was held without any international control, that there were more voters than people living on peninsula, and that voting was in just few cities and one day, and yet somehow everyone got to those cities and voted from whole peninsula. Also, that there only were questions "Do you want to leave Ukraine nad be independant" and "Do you want to join Russia?". Voting was open, so soldiers were seeing everyone who was making which vote. Also, on the extreme East, from where I am, there were no such thing. Those protestors were maybe in few hundreds. Main power were people who came from Russia - they were doing all the stuff, they were assigned as leaders and mainly their people were proclaiming what they wanted. Locals were not really supportive in most cases. That's why up to half of all locals fled to Ukraine in 2015-2017, including myself - around 1.5 million people. Nowadays a lot of people from "economically depressed parts of Russia" were gifted our houses for free or for very low price, so now there are a lot of russians from Russia living. Basically it is forced relocation.
A bit of propaganda, there was never more than 1.5 million Ukrainians in Crimea, at the highest it was 500k, most of the people are Russian people living there.
@@oo--7714 You misread. This includes the east like Donetsk and other parts of the Donbas. The stealing home part is true btw. My family is from the Donbas and I had family who were living in Donetsk. Their homes were stolen and given to Russians.
Hello Hilbert. As a child many of my neighbours were from Ukraine (many with Italian wives). I had a ready source of information to discuss War and Peace, Taras Bulba and Charge of The Light Brigade films. A majority had grown up under Polish rule in Lvov, now Lviv. The first invasion for them was Soviet. I had family tales of war torn Ukraine too as I was told my uncle escaped from a POW coal mine in Silesia through Red Army lines to get to Odessa to get home to UK. The way things have gone, as you described, was pretty much how things were set out as "big story" by a particularly patriotic Ukrainian who loved to talk to someone who took an interest.
They suportet Nazys there thats why Soviets did what they did There are terible videos from WWII how that people in Lviv kiling Jews on the streets in moste savage ways They didnt escape from Soviets for nothiung LoL
@@urosknezevic5321why are you lying, the gas lighting is insane. Russia literally worked with the Nazis to partition Poland and Eastern Europe between them. The war the russia starts on 1941 because Stalin worked with Hitler. But somehow it’s Ukraines fault and Russia had to do it because of more lies. You low IQ spengs don’t deserve any rights if this is how you think, you indirectly result in the deaths of thousands of civilians through the spread of all these lies.
11:40 it's Slovakia, not Slovenia. Slovenia was never part of Warsaw pact but federal Republic of Yugoslavia which was founding member of Unaligned movement....
The West has constantly been avoiding Nuclear War with Russia. Russia does not seem to care whether nuclear wars destroy the planet so long as they win.
Great as always Hilbert! I just wanted to add you forgot 2 important factors: - The deportation of the Crimean Tartars in 1944 and replacing them with Russians (relevant to explain the behavior of crimeans since WW2) - The downing of a civilian airline and how the Russians tried to cover it up
@@olekscap4620 It was a malayasian flight mh17 and it was hit by a russian ground to air missile in donesk, most of the people on board werent even russian/ukrainian
@@MrDICKHEAD28 It was a malayasian flight mh17 and it was hit by a russian ground to air missile in donesk, most of the people on board werent even russian/ukrainian, start reading real sources not your russian controlled state media bot
6:16 Soviets invested in EASTern Ukraine industrialization, and most western parts of Ukraine was STILL in Poland, Czeckoslovakia, and Romania until WW2 ends, so you kinda missed the point entirely
6:00 My great grandmother and her siblings were in Holodomor and they had no food to eat. It’s really scary, and she is ethnic Russian but chose to live in Ukraine with her Belarus husband.
Holmodomor was made by Gerorgian Staline and Georgian Beria implemented by Ukrainian Kaganovitch and Krutchev also made in Russia and in Kazakhstan Ethnicity is typical of Ukrainian nationalism but it is racism and it does not exist Trotsky an Brejnev were Ukrainian Russia has also suffered of Bolshevism bur Ukrainian language was codified by bolcheviks by a certain commissar of nationalities Joseph Stalin Please stop using Holomodor against russia Ukraine was overrepresented in bolchevik institutions
@@louisecorchevolle9241 Trotsky was a jew, Kaganovitch was a jew, Brezhnev was born in Ukraine but never learned the Ukrainian language and was stronly against ukrainization
I remember when Euromaidan started and I kept constantly researching what was going on in Ukraine. I'm still can't believe how the events there have affected my life and career path up to this point. Good video, and as always Hilbert! I like the different style you used for this video, very refreshing!
@@polishherowitoldpilecki5521 because that Ecuadorian is also an American that has a lot of connections to the Eastern European Community in his state.
Cool video! I hope you could add a short part on the era post 1917 and the post Zarist wars. Arguably Ukraine was independent for a short period of time until being recaptured by the red army.
@@MrKakibuy not for the entire time. First it became factually independent, then factually occupied, then again factually independent and finally recaptured by the Soviets (in 1920). Though chaotic, short lived, partly occupied, internationally not fully recognized and in a permanent state of war looking at this period helps understand the idea of Ukraine nationalism.
The revolutions of 1848 were called "the springtime of the peoples" , ever since it has been used to paint regime changes in a good light. Like the second European spring in 1989. the Arab spring in 2011, or this.
Ukraine had no launch codes, as well as specialists(operators, maintenance), etc., so these were useless anyway. And all that thousands of post soviet nukes left were eventually used as... nuclear fuel in reactors.
@@crimzie if you were unaware leadership of ukraine post soviet, was extremally anti NATO more so then yeltsin of russia. And poland joined nato in the 90s while ukraine was still extremist
In the 1994 Budapest Memorandum where Ukraine relinquished their nukes, the US, Russia, and the UK all agreed to defend Ukraine if need be. Not only Russia.
@@dirckthedork-knight1201 I bet ya a lot of people don't know what nargorno karabakh is cause it is a really unreported war and plus the history of Nagorno karabakh is pretty complex it belonged to Armenia for thousands of years its just when the persian empire conquered that part of the world they started a new ethnic group known as the azeris witch co existed with the Armenians until the umayyad caliphate came into the Caucuses and then religion would be a problem as it would start dividing the two ethnic groups and after the collapse of the soviet union the Armenians and Azeris would clash over the enclave Azerbaijan keeps claiming that it was once part its territory but the enclave had a huge ethnic Armenian population and it voted to stay with Armenia but thanks to Azerbaijan committing ethnic cleansing in the enclave it would trigger a really brutal war known as the first Nagorno karabakh war witch would see some the worst fighting such as Yugoslavia the only reason Azerbaijan was able to defeat Armenia in the 2020 war was because of the drone advantage Armenia would lose territory thanks to that and the only reason I think NATO will not push the Caucuses into joining NATO is because Georgia wanted to join NATO but the Russians saw that as a threat to its security Witch is why it invaded Georgia in 2008 if it wasn't for the ceasefire Georgia would have bin apart of Russia and if another war was to break out in Nagorno Karabakh turkey will back Azerbaijan and turkey is a NATO country so if they clash with Russian troops that could start WW3 in the Caucuses
Sterling work, Hilbert. I learned several new thing and got a much improved overview. Thank you, very much. And thanks to many fine commenters expanding on the missing/underplayed parts. I was wondering about how you'd sneek in 'Wilhelmus' as always. But I'm actually glad you didn't.
3:28 The yellow part is not Austrian Galicia, but South-Eastern Polish border in the interwar period. The Austrians, didn't control Vohlynia like it is shown here.
Russian trying to play a stronger hand at the negotiation table would make sense if they didn’t send outrageous demands, which is usually pretext for invasion.
the dignity of loosing in 8 years 1/2 of your power of purchase the dignity the dignity to pursue Kaganovitch's ukranisation policy ? the dignity to shout Slava Ukraina in front of the Statues of Stepan Bandera a collaborator with the nazis ? The dignity to be even poorer than the poorest country in Europe Moldova ?
@@whatisahandle_69 bullshit. It was not "anti Ukrainian genocide" it was red action against region with less support of communist + stupidetly of reds in administration. So it's holodomor strikes not only the Ukrainians. Russian Volga regions, Kuban, Don, Kazakhstan is also suffer too. Andrew that not Russian action it's communist action
@@vladimirthegreen6097 I disagree. Considering the Ukrainians define the Holodomor as a "deliberate act of genocide" by the Russians, I will continue to consider it as such, not just the repercussions of communist famine.
@@whatisahandle_69 Ukraine define the Holodomor as a "deliberate act of genocide" by the *Soviet* government against Ukrainians. Soviet and Russian are not synonyms and using them as such is misleading.
U.S., 1983: "There's been a coup in Grenada: We must invade Grenada to protect American lives." Russia, 2014: "There's been a coup in Ukraine. We must invade Ukraine to protect Russian lives." U.S., 2014: "Wait a minute: You can't do that, because Ukraine is a sovereign nation!"
One feels that someone from 🇬🇪 is the only soul to truly feel what 🇺🇦 is going through. Putin still holds 20% of Georgian territory and relied upon getting in before the US took Obama leadership. The UK wasn’t paying geopolitical attention either, with pre-handover infighting between Blair and Brown. Beating Russia back wasn’t a price anyone wanted to pay but if we’d have shown more backbone then, 🇷🇺 would not be prowling with the same tactics now. As a global community we should have done better. Hopefully we can show those are lessons truly learned in our help for Ukraine and that there will be very damaging consequences for those threatening her.
@@t.robinson4774 Where was the global community when Georgia armed,trained Chechen rebels,mercenaries to destabilize Russia in the 1999-2004?I remembered the articles back in the day:Russia a dying country scheduled for destruction and irrelevalncy.,and sympathy for chechen "freedom fighters" Also the UK opinion is irrelevant.
(continued) There's a couple of issues with the 2014 chronology (Russians commenced their operations to occupy Crimea while Yanukovych was still in Kyiv negotiating with the protesters, not after he fled; Poroshenko was elected President in May of 2014- so AFTER the annexation of Crimea and while the Russian invasion of Donbas was in full swing; Girkin's Russian insurgents in Slov'yansk were the first ones to start capturing government buldings- Donetsk and Luhansk came later, because there was a lot of internal negotiating going on between the oligarchic clans that controlled key industries in the 2 Donbas oblasts and the Kyiv government- at first, the DOnbas oligarchs were trying to use the pro-Russian insurgents for political leverage against Kyiv, but towards the end of spring 2014 they were sidelined by more direct Russian involvement. There are also the facts that in early summer of 2014 Ukrainian units that were controlling the border crossings between Ukraine and Russia in Donbas were shelled repeatedly from the adjoining Rostov Oblast, leading to them having to withdraw from the border, creating an uncontrolled border that allowed Russia to bring in an enormous supply of materiel- including the Buk anti-aircraft missile launcher that shot down the Malaysian Airlines flight, causing over 200 deaths) Since Ukrainian troops managed to avoid destruction in February of 2015 by breaking through the encirclement at Debal'tsevo, majority of Ukrainians don't see themselves as the defeated side; as such, implementing the Minsk agreements which would de facto change Ukraine into a federation where the virtually uncontrollable Donbas would maintain a veto power to dictate Ukrainian policy, similar to the constant deadlock that is Bosnia- Herzegovina. Because the public opinion is highly negative towards any concessions that would increase Russian influence in Ukraine (as you have noted, a lot of Ukrainians, especially Russian-speakers who previously considered Russians to be a "brotherly people" now see them as back-stabbing enemies), neither Poroshenko, nor the current president Zelensky (who ran on a "let's achieve peace with Russia" platform in 2019) are unable to take any steps to implement the Minsk Agreements in the format which Russia and its Donbas puppet regimes demand. France and Germany who are the mediators of these negotiations in the "Normandy Four" format can't really influence that decision either. Thus Russia is now trying to intimidate Ukraine into making constitutional concessions to their puppet states, but whether they will actually go beyond threats is unclear. Although the West is issuing support to Ukraine, bolstering their capacity to defend against Russian incursions, in the long run, the West would prefer to force Ukraine to meet Russian demands to gain their support, or at least neutrality in the confrontation against China. However, since, unlike what the Russian propaganda says, Ukraine isn't a Western puppet state, they have no instruments of leverage against Ukrainian government- since the government institutions are too weak to allow the government to implement its policies contrary to the wishes of the active segments of the civil society- such as the almost half a million demobilized war veterans who are willing to take up arms again against Russia, or any Ukrainian government that is seen to be giving in to Russia without a fight. It's difficult to speak about Ukraine to Westerners, because there's a lot of temptation to boil everything down to simple geopolitcs and ethnic divides; but Ukraine is one of the purest examples of corporate feudalism, where since the mid 90s politics revolved around the struggles between multiple oligarchic clans, or "financial-industrial groups", each of which controls different sectors of economy, media and political parties. While there are certainly some regional aspects to these, and since early 2000s Russian political advisers have been playing up the regional and ethnolinguistic divides, at its core Ukrainian politics typically boil down to the struggles between these clans- that intersect with the grander geopolitical conflicts around Ukraine. Since the clans hold so much power and the government institutions are so weak and corrupt, there is no means for a single group to set up an autocratic regime the way it happened in Russia, Belarus and the Central Asian republics. This ongoing competition between the clans (via media and political parties) led to Ukraine developing with a much more democratic political culture- more anarchic, to be sure, but far more intolerant of government interference. This is why the protests against Yanukovych's refusal to sign the Association Agreement (the "EURO" Maidan proper, From November 21-30th, 2013) attracted maybe a hundred thousand people at its peak; but Yanukovych's decision to remove the leftover student protesters by force led to half a million people turning up on December 1st and 2nd (from this point one, it was just "The Maidan), aimed primarily against the government's abuse of power). When the president used his parliamentary majority to pass laws that would attempts to regulate and curtail public protests (similar to laws existing in Russia *and the West*- this is something that was used to justify these laws; however, given the low level of trust in the government, police, and other social institutions in Ukraine, when compared to the West, the comparison quickly becomes moot, since the liberty to protest is the main tool Ukrainian people have had to defend themselves against corrupt and untrustworthy institusions- and limiting these rights does not in any way further the social contract, but rather underlines it), this led to violence, Molotovs and shooting. When on February 22nd over 100 people were shot in Kyiv, massive anti-government protest rallies were held even in such "inert" Russian-speaking cities as Dnipro, Odessa and Kahrkiv. Following Yanukovych's escape (or rather, abandonement of his position, which led to the parliament having to impeach him, because he literally ran away- and this was something that over a third of his own party voted for), the regional governors of all the regions of the "South and East" were supposed to meet in Kharkiv in order to announce their plans to federalize the country, with a separate republic for the primarily Russian-speaking regions- but a pro-unity rally of about 10 thousand people being held outside led them to reconsider. other factors played a role, because the very pro-Russian mayor of Kharkiv temporarily left the country, while the oligarch Igor Kolomoysky asserted influence in Dnipro and later, Odessa. Kolomoysky was made governor of Dnipropetrovsk oblast by the provisional government, and maintained that position until his conflict with President Poroshenko (another oligarch) in 2016, or 2017. To put it simply, there is no easy answer. Ukraine is a unitary nation at this point, but with a catastrophically weak government. As such, paradoxically, this means that short of direct physical intervention the Great Powers can't truly push the Ukrainian government to play by their rules- because the government is too weak to make unpopular decisions. This means that it is going to be a permanent destabilizing factor, until it is integrated into a system that majority of its population happen to support, and then forced to play by those rules to become more of a normal country.
Couldn't say it better myself. Very good take on the internal situation of Ukraine. (Not a Ukrainian but my mother from there, so western news aren't my only source)
You provide absolutely no evidence of your assertion that Russia was planning to annex Crimea before the coup. Quite the coincidence that would have been. And Kiev signed the Minsk agreement and it later became ratified by the UN security council. All parties have signed up for it, including Ukraine. You can't afterward change your mind.
@@asdf3568 The medals issues to the Russian soldiers involved in the Anschluss of Crimea all have dates of the operation. The beginning date is February 20th. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_%22For_the_Return_of_Crimea%22 Yanukovych fled his residence Kyiv in the morning of February 22nd, before declaring that he will not be signing the laws passed by the new parliamentary majority on the 21st. (formed from the opposition and about a third of his party that defected after the shooting of almost 100 protesters on February 18th)--which is what prompted the new majority to impeach him, as he "àbandoned`his post". The night from the 20th to the 21st he made an agreement with the opposition to reverse the Constitution, curtailing the President's power and to replace most of the Cabinet. Yanukovych was to have a short transition period before a new election. All of this fell apart when he fled to Russia and started demanding that Russia defend him- from his own party that switched sides, I suppose. During the entire active phase of the Russian invasion the acting parliament was the exact same one that was elected prior to the revolution, in the 2012 election, after Yanukovych has been President for 2 years. His Party of Regions fraction in the parliament splintered into a number of groups, each one aligned with a different oligarch that sponsored their campaign. The new parliamentary election took place in October of 2014- by that time the ceasefire was already in effect from Minsk-1. Active hostilites didn't resume untill the Russian offences against Mariupil, Debaltsevo and the Donetsk Airport in December of 2014. Regarding Minsk-2: the order of proceedings outlined there puts the withdrawal of all foreign troops and armaments from the Temporarily Occupied Territories before any constitutional amendments are to be made by Ukraine. In addition, the Minsk Agreements do not explicitly define what the "special status" to be granted to the Temporarily Occupied Territories actually IS. There are obvious disagreements between Ukraine and Russia as to what the definition of this status should be, which is the major roadblock in the ongoing negotiations.
- the soviet union will be pleased to offer amnesty to you wayward vessel. - The Soviet Union? I thought you guys broke up - Yes! Thats what we wanted you to think! Simpsons really can be prophetic sometimes...
I talked to many Crimeans and they all tell that Crimea was vey appolitical region of Ukraine. Like really, in all the president elections or referendums, Crimeans were mostly ignoring those elections. They cared most about their own wealth. And so, in 2014 so called "referendum" had two points - 1) Join Russia 2) Come back to constituion of 1994. Most of crimeans had no idea what do they vote for, they didn't understood second point so it turned out like this. There were some other missed part of Ukraine history like UPR but even though, video is great. Greatings from Kharkiv, glory to Vinnytsa security forces!
you have seen uprising in Crimea against Russia ? When I was in Kharkov I only hear this Kharkov not Kharkivyou have linguistic problems, Was in Crimea under Ukrainian rule then under Russian Can tell you mostly were satisfied ; Ukrainian propaganda full of liars, I to be objective I like Ukraine very much its people tell me the contrary I was in Intourist giant Hotel four times in Yalta I am not pro Poutin only French
@@louisecorchevolle9241 When I was in Kharkov I only hear this Kharkov not Kharkiv you have linguistic problems, < Huh. And what? If people not speaking ukranian then it not ukranian city?
Like many Ukrainians, you only know how to lie. The second point was: "Are you for the restoration of the Constitution of the Republic of Crimea in 1992 and *for the status of Crimea as part of Ukraine?"*
@@louisecorchevolle9241 Crimean Tatars don't call themselves like that. They call themselves Qirimli, means "Crimeans". The only similarities they have with Tatars are religion and language. They are as different as Germans and English or Czechs and Serbians.
I think it is just on the verge of being kind of snobby. If it is about foreign places and cities that do not have a conventional English Name, it is properly more appropriate to try to get close to the pronunciation in the local language but in general I don't see why news reporters etc. should bend over backwards to pronounce phonemes that they do not have in their own language.
@@baldinggrey5368 trying to pronounce things correctly is snobby? lol ok. so you're saying he should try and pronounce it the way english speakers would even though he doesn't have a problem getting closer to the correct pronunciation?
@average ukrainian national-syndicalist "because the opinion of a Muscovite is not worth the time spent reading" As far as I'm concerned Crimea belongs to Russia.
An important note: The Presidium "voiced support for a referendum" while the Crimea was already occupied by Russian military. Let's not forget that part.
Also Igor Girkin, the guy who probably gave an order to shoot down MH 17, himself said that he had to force Crimean Parlament members to enter the Parlament to vote for referendum.
@@denyspikalov3602 Well, we can't expect our foreign friends to know so much nuance, I suppose. They don't speak Russian so they have to rely on second-hand sources.
@@BIGESTblade yeah, you're right. Can't blame them for misunderstandings with all these Kremlin's bots here. I just wish the Western Media would cover these important moments. Most of the sources in English about Ukraine are too simplified.
Thanks for another informative video! I'ld like to ask, well anyone for that matter - anyone knows which town, or city is in picture at around 2:35? Looks very beautiful....
Hi, it's Český Krumlov and it is actually in Czech Republic, not Ukraine. The next city after that is Prague (the capital of Czech Republic)... I just cannot stop to wonder why the author used these two pictures...
@@ThSonny21 Ha! How weird...so it is really not in Ukraine, but in Czech Republic? OK? Looks equally beautiful either way - if I get the chance I'ld like to visit there anyhow. Thanks for the correction! Cheers from Sweden.
Great Video! I love that you are very objective and present things neutral. As an Iraqi I would love a Video about Iraq from 2003 to know. Keep up the good work!
A lot of Russia’s problems are geographic. If Russia and Ukraine were apart of the European Union would that change things? It’s obviously not possible: Russia’s far too autocratic and oppressive, notwithstanding its hostility. But say Russia became democratic: would the economic alliance and permeable borders allay Russian anxieties?
This is the most fair and honest report in the situation there. It leaves some things out and presents others from a western perspective but is still by far the most accurate report I’ve found. Thank you.
@@ina1994 NATO CREATED THE INVASION HYSTERIA WHEN RUSSIA WAS JUST MINDING IT'S OWN BUSINESS CONDUCTING ROUTINE YEARLY MILITARY DRILLS AND NATO USED IT FOR PROPAGANDA SAYING IT WAS AN INVASION BUILD UP NATO DID THIS SO CAN HAVE AN EXCUSE TO VIOLATE BUDAPEST AND MINSK AGREEMENTS BY SENDING ARMS TO UKRAINE WHICH UKRAINE WAS NOT FULFILLING THE MINSK AGREEMENT IN DONBASS REPUBLICS AND RECIEVING ARMS FROM NATO TO FIGHT SEPARATISTS OBVIOUSLY KILL THEM AND EXPAND NATO PUTIN DEMANDED TO ENFORCE THE AGREEMENTS NATO AND UKRAINE IGNORED PUTIN'S DEMANDS TO ENFORCE THE AGREEMENT SO PUTIN RECOGNIZE THE DONBASS REPUBLIC AND PROVIDED MILITARY ASSISTANCES AND PUTIN GAVE UKRAINIAN FORCES TO STOP SHELLING DONBASS WHICH WAS IGNORED TOO SO YEAH PUTIN LAUNCH FULL SCALE INVASION
@@MarvelousSquad THE CRIMEAN PEOPLE ASKED RUSSIA FOR ASSISTANCE AFTER NEO-NAZIS TOOK OVER KIEV GOVT AND BAN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE SO YOUR VERSION OF EVENTS IS FALSE
Russia itself started in Ukraine back when it was Kievan-Rus. That’s why Putin romanticizes the reunification of Ukraine to Russia. He sees the two countries as the same exact state.
If that's the logic you think works then why don't you become a Reich like in WW2 and start mass murdering Russians to the east and pols to your west. Who stopped you again? Oh that's right true Ukrainians and Russians in brotherhood. And here we are again, Ukraine is being led by a exterior western force against it's brother
Of course we are not going to talk about what happened during Euromaidan Massacre. It definitely did not kickstarted armed defence of certain nationality in donbas, lol.
@@ЛіліанаГалян Imagine using people which were forcibly relocated by Soviet Union as argument. What will be next? Will you start killing them as certain part of Ukraine army and government? Maybe Russia shouldn't have done the referendum so you could enjoy endless bloodshed in two parts of ukraine instead of one.
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Hope yous enjoy the new video style - last one of these for a while because they take about a week to put together!
hope you had a good day
Do you speak russian?
woooow, hold up! wait a minute! something ain't right!
At 16:40 you forget to mention that the protestors took over army depots and that the post 'revolution' regime BANNED the opposition parties... This is somewhat relevant, no?
Then at 18:30 you mention that the East of Ukraine feared the coming of 'ukrainian militias'. O...k... and why was that? could it be that such 'militias' were neonazi gangs and that they had already sacked the offices of the pro Yanukovich parties and killed dozens of his supporters all around Ukraine?
carbon footprint not good :(
Planting trees will not have any tangible effect on climate change. To offset the carbon footprint of one US citizen alone you'd have to plant somewhere around ~1,000 trees... each year... which also means finding locations to plant what would end up being trillions of trees just to offset the US's carbon footprint
Cool to see you cover more recent events!
That's what he been doing for months
Cool to see you here Stefan.
One day we will have a collab between them and it will just be 20 minutes of them singing the Dutch national anthem
Hello Stefan 👋
Thanks man! Hopefully more to come!
Interesting fact - I'm sure that many Brits here don't know that the city of Donetsk, the very heart of Donbass itself, was actually founded by A WELSH ENGINEER! His name was John Hughes and the city itself was initially named "Hughzovka" after him, you can Google it up!
He was the one who built the first metal works in the region and basically launched the whole industrialisation process there.. who knows, maybe if it wasn't for him, the region wouldn't have developed so much it did in the Soviet times and there would be no DPR and LPR today)
I knew it, the Welsh are all to blame!!
"Whatever happened to Hughesovka?" is a funny old documentary about Hughes filmed back in the 80s before the fall of the Soviet Union. Today it's only partially available here on RUclips, but I still definitely recommend to see it)
The Bri’ish
I was reading about that and was pretty taken aback by it as well!
@Black Lesbian Poet or the french
Thank you so much for covering this topic, it's hard to find decent coverage over here in the States and even then it's current events not an explanation of how we got to this point.
very well done! This is very helpful at this time. I needed a good summary of the history (so far). Thank you very much.
As a Ukrainian I want to say thanks for such detailed video. It is the most accurate foreign video about Ukrainian history that I saw. Good job!
Hey the war started you good?
Hope you are okay bruv
Stay strong my friend! 💪🇺🇦
Stay safe
Really? He sounds good to me too!
Great vid mate! You did a good job going through such a long period of history! Also, you nailed the pronunciation!
he is missing a lot in historical context
The pronunciation is a bit daft even in English. The Rennersonce. The Russian Sardom.
The Russians “took their chance” and no mention of the sealed train full of gold and, lol Lenin sent from Germany to sponsor the revolution.
No mention of Genrikh Yagoda.
The whole sense is of sympathy with the vicious Bolshevism which killed millions of people.
Sepastopohle?
No mention of Kruschev. Pronunciation of “Gorbach Eff”.
This man is a disgrace to the North of England.
It is then later “se FASTER pol”
What’s goin on, big guy?
Correction: Alexander Zakcharchrenko has not been killed in a restaurant while eating. He has been killed when he wanted to visit the restaurant and died immediatly after he entered the building.
Died on an empty stomach.
@@polishherowitoldpilecki5521 bro 💀
Fun fact: The two options given in the crimean referendum boiled down to
a) direct incorporation into Russia
b) reinstitution of the crimean constitution of 1992. Which is hugely ambiguous, as there were several crimean constitutions in 1992, leading to very different outcomes.
This was criticized, not only because the referendum was not a yes or no question that didn't include the status quo as an option, but also because many experts speculate that option b) would have effectively served as a backdoor for Russia, turning an autonomous Crimea into a russian proxy state whithin Ukraine or outright leading to a slower route to russian incorporation. It was a referendum without a "No" option. Only "Yes" and "Who knows?".
Tomitius Tritus And yet 95%+ chose to join Russia
The Crimean politicians aren't idiots, an independent Crimea would've been invaded by Ukraine and ended up like Donetsk and Luhansk.
They did well by their people.
Crimeans are happy to be rid of the Ukrainian Government corruption and fealty to the United States
@@avibhagan would've ended up as Kharkiv*. Donetsk and Luhansk were captured by russians... Donetsk and Luhansk ended up like they because of presence of the russian forces. What haven't been in Kharkiv..
@@ПавелТкач-э3т
Stop lying. They ended up like that because of government violence against opposition supporters and supporters of the ousted president.
The coup government, was fascist. The poroshenko government continued the fascism.
They decided to kill all the Ukrainian people who don't support the EU and NATO.
EU and NATO, supported the violence instead of condemning it.
This isn't the first time that NATO has done this.
@@avibhagan Russia is even more corrupt, and "fealty of unites states", whatever that means, it's better to have USA as an Ally than Russia. Ask Japan, Germany and South Korea how its going as Western Ally. Ask North Korea and Iran how its going as Eastern ally.
On your report of the Euro-Maidan Protests you're missing one key part. The protests itself weren't enough to bring down the government but on the 20. February during the protests snipers shot and killed many protesters AND policemen which lead to a chaos which in the end brought down the government. To this day we don't know who these snipers were. But that incident is what caused the regime change in the end.
This is pro-russian lie and propaganda.
Victoria Nuland
Well noted. There are many conflicting ideas of who they were. From Ukrainian Security Services(SBU), who as we know were aligned more with Russia at this time, to pro-western forces. Russia claims it was orchestrated by the CIA. Who the heck knows its a juicy mystery for sure
And the fact that it was heavily supported financially by the United States
@@letstalkaboutit3195 aware USA can give everyone medicare+lower inflation so wages regain value but need to punish all those whom want to stay in Syria like Schiff/pelosi? they constant print money to stay in iraq-syria oil gold
george bush 14 years ago said he wants ukraine in nato foreshadow f word 2014 coup
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dnc kill 50 in vegas/portland, thugs attack with stand down cops san jose/charlotte, burn loot several months, sabotage afgan withdraw using russia bounty smear to give taliban equip, blm crash car in to wisconsin parade thanks to nbc follow jury bus smearing ritten house too
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Would love to see more videos about modern events and recent events and giving details of the history of those events and why they are happening, just like this video! Thank you for the amazing videos and keep up the great work!
Under Austrian administration, Polanisation generally continued much the same as under Commonwealth rule. In exchange for accepting Austrian rule, Polish authorities in Galicia were basically given a free pass to implement Polish education across the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. This led to Ashkenazi Jews generally identifying as Polish nationality rather than German (despite a large-scale Jewish-Germanization campaign in the late 18th Century). Galician Germans were also hugely miscategorized as Polish in Austrian censuses. Austrian census data usually brings up a German Galician statistic of around 60,000, or like 2% of the total population, whereas looking through church records from 1913, we know there were 360,000 German members of the Lutheran Church in Galicia alone. (A lot of German migration into Galicia came from Prussia).
Regardless, the effect of all this was significantly inflated Polish population statistics in the region, when in fact Ruthenian nationality would have made up a plurality in the area, if not an absolute majority.
* Halychyna
Bullshit
it is clear Ukrainian mariology if I am wrong with regards from Stepan .the criminal
@@LordDark102 Does not elaborate. Gigachad
@@daniel-oc6pp Ashkenazi Jews in Galicja were from within Russian Empire which banned them from living really anywhere. Why would Austians(Germans themselves) indetify other Germans as Poles. There were many protestant Poles if you didn't know. They made plurality in the countryside but cities were overwhealmingly Polish.
Well done, it's really nice analysis.
You skipped MH17 and Ilovaisk themes, I think it was key events of this war too
He can't mention those because there's no way to provide a good propaganda angle for NATO with those stories. He doesnt mention nazis either does he?
@@adamsmith2944 MH17 was shot down by the terrorists, how is it not good propaganda for NATO? It's basically free.
@@yaroslavromanyuk5669 Kolomoyskyi is on video admitting to having it shot down. Theres no evidence surface to air missiles were used. Mh17 was downed in rebel territory and it stopped rebels advancing. Idiot.
@@yaroslavromanyuk5669 you are right though, mh17 was shot down by terrorists. Nazi terrorists who lost and will lose again because they are idiots
HE ALSO BOUGHT INTO THE NATO PROPAGANDA
16:50 Damn, the Little Green Men took the word ‘beginning’ all of a sudden.
In my humble opinion you covered this difficult topic well.
I beg to differ. It is heavily biased.
honestly, shockingly well for a Hilbert video. Most western observers skip over the fact that Ukraine is full of far right ultra nationalists... However skipping over the fact that yes, NATO has actively been F'ing hard with Russia, trying to balkanise it and overrun it's former allies.. is still a fail.
Doesnt matter if russia is a bully, and you are a model student, if you get roped into vandalising Russia's front door by a different bully I don't care if you get beaten up.
@@anasevi9456 Russia is trying to survive, with the West knocking on their front door of course Russia well react and do something, they are not going to sit idle and let themselves be destroyed. When it comes to geopolitics and war you can bet Russia is putting up a fight.
@@anasevi9456 I mean simply put? Russia doesn't get to decide other countries policies. The countries that have furthest distanced themselves and found joint protection have done comparatively well (Batics, poland, etc.)
The one that got stuck as neither fully distanced nor a puppet had critical territory occupied and a major region stolen (in direct violation of agreements between them and Russia). This is regardless of any other fact, no 'provocation' has been close to the level of invasion and annexation of territory, NO other European power has done so. Ultimately, NATO shouldn't have been needed to be brought up if the Russian government had stood by their word, no bullshit about NATO expanding changes that when Ukraine isn't even in NATO.
well your technically correct but this can be only solved when Ukraine finally gets out of the war or create an agreement with Russia or EU that it will be a neutral state between them but at the same time have the sovereign right to defend itself or it promised not to join NATO so it's not technically Ukraine's fault but the west itself
One of the only mostly complete summaries out there. Great job!
Slight correction: "2014-2022" would mean that the war is over. The correct ones would br "2014-", "2014-today" or "2014-N/A". It seems obvious now but for future reference it may become confusing (for example if in 10 years time someone looks up the Ukrainian conflict)
Totally agree
I mean it is as of 2022 because he can’t say what happens after 2022
@@S0appy-t8w yeah but saying "war in ukraine (2014-2022)" makes it seem like the conflict is from 2014-2022
It’s wishful thinking
I doubt that misconception can happen, I mean you just need to watch the first ten 20 seconds of the video or just pay attention to the news to know this is an ongoing war.
You forgot that "Referendum" in Crimea was done after island was fully covered with russian military, and that it was held without any international control, that there were more voters than people living on peninsula, and that voting was in just few cities and one day, and yet somehow everyone got to those cities and voted from whole peninsula. Also, that there only were questions "Do you want to leave Ukraine nad be independant" and "Do you want to join Russia?". Voting was open, so soldiers were seeing everyone who was making which vote.
Also, on the extreme East, from where I am, there were no such thing. Those protestors were maybe in few hundreds. Main power were people who came from Russia - they were doing all the stuff, they were assigned as leaders and mainly their people were proclaiming what they wanted. Locals were not really supportive in most cases. That's why up to half of all locals fled to Ukraine in 2015-2017, including myself - around 1.5 million people. Nowadays a lot of people from "economically depressed parts of Russia" were gifted our houses for free or for very low price, so now there are a lot of russians from Russia living. Basically it is forced relocation.
THEY ARE MAJORITY ETHNIC RUSSIAN. You think they want to stay part of a ultra nationalistic country that is opposed to Russia? No common sense...
A bit of propaganda, there was never more than 1.5 million Ukrainians in Crimea, at the highest it was 500k, most of the people are Russian people living there.
@@oo--7714 You misread. This includes the east like Donetsk and other parts of the Donbas.
The stealing home part is true btw. My family is from the Donbas and I had family who were living in Donetsk. Their homes were stolen and given to Russians.
@@alexbattin6482 I doubt Russians would move into a war zone
Hello Hilbert. As a child many of my neighbours were from Ukraine (many with Italian wives). I had a ready source of information to discuss War and Peace, Taras Bulba and Charge of The Light Brigade films.
A majority had grown up under Polish rule in Lvov, now Lviv. The first invasion for them was Soviet.
I had family tales of war torn Ukraine too as I was told my uncle escaped from a POW coal mine in Silesia through Red Army lines to get to Odessa to get home to UK.
The way things have gone, as you described, was pretty much how things were set out as "big story" by a particularly patriotic Ukrainian who loved to talk to someone who took an interest.
They suportet Nazys there thats why Soviets did what they did There are terible videos from WWII how that people in Lviv kiling Jews on the streets in moste savage ways They didnt escape from Soviets for nothiung LoL
@@urosknezevic5321why are you lying, the gas lighting is insane. Russia literally worked with the Nazis to partition Poland and Eastern Europe between them. The war the russia starts on 1941 because Stalin worked with Hitler. But somehow it’s Ukraines fault and Russia had to do it because of more lies. You low IQ spengs don’t deserve any rights if this is how you think, you indirectly result in the deaths of thousands of civilians through the spread of all these lies.
11:40 it's Slovakia, not Slovenia. Slovenia was never part of Warsaw pact but federal Republic of Yugoslavia which was founding member of Unaligned movement....
And a founding member of the Cominform :)
Yeah it's annoying when foreigners mix our countires up .... but I find it funny at the same time.
Can you guys Change the names please?
Did you actually listen to what he said?
The west should never have allowed Crimea to be annexed. We had a chance to stop this before it began, now tens of thousands are dying for nothing.
The West has constantly been avoiding Nuclear War with Russia. Russia does not seem to care whether nuclear wars destroy the planet so long as they win.
@@CMVMic "seem" is the important term there. Like when, do we stop them? Never?
@@Thecommander248 Stop who?
Looks like this needs to be updated - Russian forces have begun to invade as of around ~ 13-14 hours ago.
Edit - three months ago
edit 2 years ago
You somehow missed a very important piece of Ukraine’s history - UPR & WUPR and the act of reunification
Time to make an addition.
Great as always Hilbert! I just wanted to add you forgot 2 important factors:
- The deportation of the Crimean Tartars in 1944 and replacing them with Russians (relevant to explain the behavior of crimeans since WW2)
- The downing of a civilian airline and how the Russians tried to cover it up
Downing a Russian civilian airline over the Crimea few years earlier by Ukrainian army?
OH LOOK A TWO LETTER PRO-NATO BOT I SEE YOU TWO LETTER NAMED BOT GUYS SPREADING NATO PROPAGANDA EVERYWHERE
@@MrDICKHEAD28
@@olekscap4620 It was a malayasian flight mh17 and it was hit by a russian ground to air missile in donesk, most of the people on board werent even russian/ukrainian
@@MrDICKHEAD28 It was a malayasian flight mh17 and it was hit by a russian ground to air missile in donesk, most of the people on board werent even russian/ukrainian, start reading real sources not your russian controlled state media bot
Here we go boys
6:16 Soviets invested in EASTern Ukraine industrialization, and most western parts of Ukraine was STILL in Poland, Czeckoslovakia, and Romania until WW2 ends, so you kinda missed the point entirely
6:00 My great grandmother and her siblings were in Holodomor and they had no food to eat. It’s really scary, and she is ethnic Russian but chose to live in Ukraine with her Belarus husband.
Holmodomor was made by Gerorgian Staline and Georgian Beria implemented by Ukrainian Kaganovitch and Krutchev also made in Russia and in Kazakhstan Ethnicity is typical of Ukrainian nationalism but it is racism and it does not exist Trotsky an Brejnev were Ukrainian Russia has also suffered of Bolshevism bur Ukrainian language was codified by bolcheviks by a certain commissar of nationalities Joseph Stalin Please stop using Holomodor against russia Ukraine was overrepresented in bolchevik institutions
@@louisecorchevolle9241 Trotsky was a jew, Kaganovitch was a jew, Brezhnev was born in Ukraine but never learned the Ukrainian language and was stronly against ukrainization
@@louisecorchevolle9241 *10 Rubles have been sent to your account*
Nice flag mate (not)
@@dirckthedork-knight1201 That is like nothing.... :(
I remember when Euromaidan started and I kept constantly researching what was going on in Ukraine. I'm still can't believe how the events there have affected my life and career path up to this point.
Good video, and as always Hilbert! I like the different style you used for this video, very refreshing!
how was an Ecuadorian affected by Ukraine crisis. I’m polish and the crisis is right next there, about 100 miles from my nearest relative.
@@polishherowitoldpilecki5521 because that Ecuadorian is also an American that has a lot of connections to the Eastern European Community in his state.
Hola, eres del Ecuador? Es muy interesante
@Joscha Wexler well, he sure used plenty.
Cool video! I hope you could add a short part on the era post 1917 and the post Zarist wars. Arguably Ukraine was independent for a short period of time until being recaptured by the red army.
It was in no way independent, it was under direct German military domination
@@MrKakibuy not for the entire time. First it became factually independent, then factually occupied, then again factually independent and finally recaptured by the Soviets (in 1920). Though chaotic, short lived, partly occupied, internationally not fully recognized and in a permanent state of war looking at this period helps understand the idea of Ukraine nationalism.
There were created some institutes that exist nowadays (by example Science’s Academy created by head ataman Simon Petliura)
Both the white and reds occupied Ukraine.
@@themajesticstick5262 and Ukraine was not a full part of Soviet Union with Trotsky, Kaganovitch, Krutchev, Brejnev
Dude, Euromaydan happened during winter. By spring it was already a war
Pretty sure "The Ukranian Spring" is a reference to The Arab Spring, not actually saying that Euromayden happened then.
The revolutions of 1848 were called "the springtime of the peoples" , ever since it has been used to paint regime changes in a good light. Like the second European spring in 1989. the Arab spring in 2011, or this.
@@obrnenydrevokocur9344 Good to know
@@jared_bowden Actually this was called as "the Russian spring". But considering how this guy butchered pronunciations, nothing extraordinary lol
Russia's October Revolution began in November. Eastern Europe doesn't let calenders get in the way of their naming conventions.
Excellent! Thank you. I have been searching for an explanation I could understand about this ongoing conflict.
This is the best documentary on the situation ive seen so far, thank you!
Very nice video. So sad to see the last part with the hindsight of March 2022
Excellent video and thanks for your extensive coverage.
Trust me this video does not have extensive coverage. Just main points heavily simplified
@@belen3732 "Extensive" is relative. Most videos on the topic are 5 minutes or hours of Russian conspiracy theories and misinformation.
The biggest mistake Ukraine ever made was giving up it's nuclear arsenal....to Russia.
They would have used it against Poland after Poland joined NATO in the 90s
@@TheProjectVoid wut
Ukraine had no launch codes, as well as specialists(operators, maintenance), etc., so these were useless anyway.
And all that thousands of post soviet nukes left were eventually used as... nuclear fuel in reactors.
@@crimzie if you were unaware leadership of ukraine post soviet, was extremally anti NATO more so then yeltsin of russia. And poland joined nato in the 90s while ukraine was still extremist
@@TheProjectVoid this is simply not true.
You gonna update this bro?
In the 1994 Budapest Memorandum where Ukraine relinquished their nukes, the US, Russia, and the UK all agreed to defend Ukraine if need be. Not only Russia.
О защите там ничего нет, вы читали меморандум или что то где то слышали...
@@ΑνναΦρολοβα it literally says that they should respect Ukraines borders and sovereignty and if anything happens they should militarily support it.
@@rediii9239
So the US brutally crashed Ukraine's sovereignty in 2014
16:50 there’s a flub here where what you said gets cut off otherwise great video
Hilbert should do a video about Nagorno Karabakh and the chechen wars
It belongs to Armenia
Aka "the war which the West humiliated it self" now Armenia is under the Moscovite Banner and the West has noone to blame other than itself
@@dirckthedork-knight1201 I bet ya a lot of people don't know what nargorno karabakh is cause it is a really unreported war and plus the history of Nagorno karabakh is pretty complex it belonged to Armenia for thousands of years its just when the persian empire conquered that part of the world they started a new ethnic group known as the azeris witch co existed with the Armenians until the umayyad caliphate came into the Caucuses and then religion would be a problem as it would start dividing the two ethnic groups and after the collapse of the soviet union the Armenians and Azeris would clash over the enclave Azerbaijan keeps claiming that it was once part its territory but the enclave had a huge ethnic Armenian population and it voted to stay with Armenia but thanks to Azerbaijan committing ethnic cleansing in the enclave it would trigger a really brutal war known as the first Nagorno karabakh war witch would see some the worst fighting such as Yugoslavia the only reason Azerbaijan was able to defeat Armenia in the 2020 war was because of the drone advantage Armenia would lose territory thanks to that and the only reason I think NATO will not push the Caucuses into joining NATO is because Georgia wanted to join NATO but the Russians saw that as a threat to its security Witch is why it invaded Georgia in 2008 if it wasn't for the ceasefire Georgia would have bin apart of Russia and if another war was to break out in Nagorno Karabakh turkey will back Azerbaijan and turkey is a NATO country so if they clash with Russian troops that could start WW3 in the Caucuses
I’m usually not the type to say one nation was the “bad guy” in a conflict… but in this case Russia sure does seem like the bad gay
funny, the us creating a color revolution thus starting this conflict by installing bandera worshipers and fellow travelers.
Sterling work, Hilbert. I learned several new thing and got a much improved overview. Thank you, very much.
And thanks to many fine commenters expanding on the missing/underplayed parts.
I was wondering about how you'd sneek in 'Wilhelmus' as always. But I'm actually glad you didn't.
3:28 The yellow part is not Austrian Galicia, but South-Eastern Polish border in the interwar period. The Austrians, didn't control Vohlynia like it is shown here.
16:50 “but this was on-“ *suspenseful music*
Well now the pressing question has been answered
Probably the greatest video on this theme. Great job
Why did you use footage from Czech Republic between 2:36 and 2:50 ?
Russian trying to play a stronger hand at the negotiation table would make sense if they didn’t send outrageous demands, which is usually pretext for invasion.
russia should have demanded those points a decade ago
@@sinoroman They did. They invaded Georgia over it.
They’re not outrageous lol they want the promises made after the fall of communism to be kept
Like NATO demand to move Russian forces in Russia? Or russian demands about american troops in Europe, which is more outrageous?
@@sheevpalpy no promises have been made about accepting new countries into NATO
This hits different now
As a Russian I can say that you covered this topic really well.
Tnx for putting it together bro
Why calling Euromaidan "The Ukrainian Spring" when it already has a fitting name if its own?
Just call it "The Revolution of Dignity"
the dignity of loosing in 8 years 1/2 of your power of purchase the dignity the dignity to pursue Kaganovitch's ukranisation policy ? the dignity to shout Slava Ukraina in front of the Statues of Stepan Bandera a collaborator with the nazis ? The dignity to be even poorer than the poorest country in Europe Moldova ?
Lmfao french communist's ass be flying out of the stratosphere bruh
This was a fantastic video and analysis
Well, time for a new part to this video.
This topic really has interested me sense I heard about Crimea. Man, that was a while ago, somethings don't change huh?
Look further back to the 1930s when Russia was attempting Ukrainian genocide via famine
@@whatisahandle_69 bullshit. It was not "anti Ukrainian genocide" it was red action against region with less support of communist + stupidetly of reds in administration. So it's holodomor strikes not only the Ukrainians. Russian Volga regions, Kuban, Don, Kazakhstan is also suffer too.
Andrew that not Russian action it's communist action
@@vladimirthegreen6097 I disagree. Considering the Ukrainians define the Holodomor as a "deliberate act of genocide" by the Russians, I will continue to consider it as such, not just the repercussions of communist famine.
@@whatisahandle_69 Ukraine define the Holodomor as a "deliberate act of genocide" by the *Soviet* government against Ukrainians. Soviet and Russian are not synonyms and using them as such is misleading.
@@whatisahandle_69 fine then the UK genocided the irish, inidans, native americans and africans by your logic.
Well...
Can we get an update on this video
U.S., 1983: "There's been a coup in Grenada: We must invade Grenada to protect American lives."
Russia, 2014: "There's been a coup in Ukraine. We must invade Ukraine to protect Russian lives."
U.S., 2014: "Wait a minute: You can't do that, because Ukraine is a sovereign nation!"
16:51 Part cut off “This was only the...”
God bless Ukraine from Georgia 🇬🇪❤️🇺🇦
One feels that someone from 🇬🇪 is the only soul to truly feel what 🇺🇦 is going through. Putin still holds 20% of Georgian territory and relied upon getting in before the US took Obama leadership.
The UK wasn’t paying geopolitical attention either, with pre-handover infighting between Blair and Brown. Beating Russia back wasn’t a price anyone wanted to pay but if we’d have shown more backbone then, 🇷🇺 would not be prowling with the same tactics now. As a global community we should have done better.
Hopefully we can show those are lessons truly learned in our help for Ukraine and that there will be very damaging consequences for those threatening her.
@@t.robinson4774 Where was the global community when Georgia armed,trained Chechen rebels,mercenaries to destabilize Russia in the 1999-2004?I remembered the articles back in the day:Russia a dying country scheduled for destruction and irrelevalncy.,and sympathy for chechen "freedom fighters" Also the UK opinion is irrelevant.
@@vindicare9636
Source: Dude just trust me...
@@fabulouscat3911 Type that:Exotic species of the North Caucasus (Pt 1) by Calibre Obscura.
@@vindicare9636 Cool story. Please go back to Reddit now.
Thanks
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There's a couple of issues with the 2014 chronology (Russians commenced their operations to occupy Crimea while Yanukovych was still in Kyiv negotiating with the protesters, not after he fled; Poroshenko was elected President in May of 2014- so AFTER the annexation of Crimea and while the Russian invasion of Donbas was in full swing; Girkin's Russian insurgents in Slov'yansk were the first ones to start capturing government buldings- Donetsk and Luhansk came later, because there was a lot of internal negotiating going on between the oligarchic clans that controlled key industries in the 2 Donbas oblasts and the Kyiv government- at first, the DOnbas oligarchs were trying to use the pro-Russian insurgents for political leverage against Kyiv, but towards the end of spring 2014 they were sidelined by more direct Russian involvement.
There are also the facts that in early summer of 2014 Ukrainian units that were controlling the border crossings between Ukraine and Russia in Donbas were shelled repeatedly from the adjoining Rostov Oblast, leading to them having to withdraw from the border, creating an uncontrolled border that allowed Russia to bring in an enormous supply of materiel- including the Buk anti-aircraft missile launcher that shot down the Malaysian Airlines flight, causing over 200 deaths)
Since Ukrainian troops managed to avoid destruction in February of 2015 by breaking through the encirclement at Debal'tsevo, majority of Ukrainians don't see themselves as the defeated side; as such, implementing the Minsk agreements which would de facto change Ukraine into a federation where the virtually uncontrollable Donbas would maintain a veto power to dictate Ukrainian policy, similar to the constant deadlock that is Bosnia- Herzegovina. Because the public opinion is highly negative towards any concessions that would increase Russian influence in Ukraine (as you have noted, a lot of Ukrainians, especially Russian-speakers who previously considered Russians to be a "brotherly people" now see them as back-stabbing enemies), neither Poroshenko, nor the current president Zelensky (who ran on a "let's achieve peace with Russia" platform in 2019) are unable to take any steps to implement the Minsk Agreements in the format which Russia and its Donbas puppet regimes demand. France and Germany who are the mediators of these negotiations in the "Normandy Four" format can't really influence that decision either. Thus Russia is now trying to intimidate Ukraine into making constitutional concessions to their puppet states, but whether they will actually go beyond threats is unclear. Although the West is issuing support to Ukraine, bolstering their capacity to defend against Russian incursions, in the long run, the West would prefer to force Ukraine to meet Russian demands to gain their support, or at least neutrality in the confrontation against China. However, since, unlike what the Russian propaganda says, Ukraine isn't a Western puppet state, they have no instruments of leverage against Ukrainian government- since the government institutions are too weak to allow the government to implement its policies contrary to the wishes of the active segments of the civil society- such as the almost half a million demobilized war veterans who are willing to take up arms again against Russia, or any Ukrainian government that is seen to be giving in to Russia without a fight.
It's difficult to speak about Ukraine to Westerners, because there's a lot of temptation to boil everything down to simple geopolitcs and ethnic divides; but Ukraine is one of the purest examples of corporate feudalism, where since the mid 90s politics revolved around the struggles between multiple oligarchic clans, or "financial-industrial groups", each of which controls different sectors of economy, media and political parties. While there are certainly some regional aspects to these, and since early 2000s Russian political advisers have been playing up the regional and ethnolinguistic divides, at its core Ukrainian politics typically boil down to the struggles between these clans- that intersect with the grander geopolitical conflicts around Ukraine. Since the clans hold so much power and the government institutions are so weak and corrupt, there is no means for a single group to set up an autocratic regime the way it happened in Russia, Belarus and the Central Asian republics.
This ongoing competition between the clans (via media and political parties) led to Ukraine developing with a much more democratic political culture- more anarchic, to be sure, but far more intolerant of government interference. This is why the protests against Yanukovych's refusal to sign the Association Agreement (the "EURO" Maidan proper, From November 21-30th, 2013) attracted maybe a hundred thousand people at its peak; but Yanukovych's decision to remove the leftover student protesters by force led to half a million people turning up on December 1st and 2nd (from this point one, it was just "The Maidan), aimed primarily against the government's abuse of power). When the president used his parliamentary majority to pass laws that would attempts to regulate and curtail public protests (similar to laws existing in Russia *and the West*- this is something that was used to justify these laws; however, given the low level of trust in the government, police, and other social institutions in Ukraine, when compared to the West, the comparison quickly becomes moot, since the liberty to protest is the main tool Ukrainian people have had to defend themselves against corrupt and untrustworthy institusions- and limiting these rights does not in any way further the social contract, but rather underlines it), this led to violence, Molotovs and shooting. When on February 22nd over 100 people were shot in Kyiv, massive anti-government protest rallies were held even in such "inert" Russian-speaking cities as Dnipro, Odessa and Kahrkiv. Following Yanukovych's escape (or rather, abandonement of his position, which led to the parliament having to impeach him, because he literally ran away- and this was something that over a third of his own party voted for), the regional governors of all the regions of the "South and East" were supposed to meet in Kharkiv in order to announce their plans to federalize the country, with a separate republic for the primarily Russian-speaking regions- but a pro-unity rally of about 10 thousand people being held outside led them to reconsider. other factors played a role, because the very pro-Russian mayor of Kharkiv temporarily left the country, while the oligarch Igor Kolomoysky asserted influence in Dnipro and later, Odessa. Kolomoysky was made governor of Dnipropetrovsk oblast by the provisional government, and maintained that position until his conflict with President Poroshenko (another oligarch) in 2016, or 2017.
To put it simply, there is no easy answer. Ukraine is a unitary nation at this point, but with a catastrophically weak government. As such, paradoxically, this means that short of direct physical intervention the Great Powers can't truly push the Ukrainian government to play by their rules- because the government is too weak to make unpopular decisions. This means that it is going to be a permanent destabilizing factor, until it is integrated into a system that majority of its population happen to support, and then forced to play by those rules to become more of a normal country.
Damn you wrote a whole statement, maybe you can do my homeworks lol
Couldn't say it better myself. Very good take on the internal situation of Ukraine. (Not a Ukrainian but my mother from there, so western news aren't my only source)
You provide absolutely no evidence of your assertion that Russia was planning to annex Crimea before the coup. Quite the coincidence that would have been. And Kiev signed the Minsk agreement and it later became ratified by the UN security council. All parties have signed up for it, including Ukraine. You can't afterward change your mind.
@Joscha Wexler Same reason as Maidan. Color revolutions. A.k.a CIA coups.
@@asdf3568 The medals issues to the Russian soldiers involved in the Anschluss of Crimea all have dates of the operation. The beginning date is February 20th.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_%22For_the_Return_of_Crimea%22
Yanukovych fled his residence Kyiv in the morning of February 22nd, before declaring that he will not be signing the laws passed by the new parliamentary majority on the 21st. (formed from the opposition and about a third of his party that defected after the shooting of almost 100 protesters on February 18th)--which is what prompted the new majority to impeach him, as he "àbandoned`his post". The night from the 20th to the 21st he made an agreement with the opposition to reverse the Constitution, curtailing the President's power and to replace most of the Cabinet. Yanukovych was to have a short transition period before a new election. All of this fell apart when he fled to Russia and started demanding that Russia defend him- from his own party that switched sides, I suppose.
During the entire active phase of the Russian invasion the acting parliament was the exact same one that was elected prior to the revolution, in the 2012 election, after Yanukovych has been President for 2 years. His Party of Regions fraction in the parliament splintered into a number of groups, each one aligned with a different oligarch that sponsored their campaign. The new parliamentary election took place in October of 2014- by that time the ceasefire was already in effect from Minsk-1. Active hostilites didn't resume untill the Russian offences against Mariupil, Debaltsevo and the Donetsk Airport in December of 2014.
Regarding Minsk-2: the order of proceedings outlined there puts the withdrawal of all foreign troops and armaments from the Temporarily Occupied Territories before any constitutional amendments are to be made by Ukraine. In addition, the Minsk Agreements do not explicitly define what the "special status" to be granted to the Temporarily Occupied Territories actually IS. There are obvious disagreements between Ukraine and Russia as to what the definition of this status should be, which is the major roadblock in the ongoing negotiations.
Very well done work! Thanks!
"2022: A coming war?" - now you can remove the question mark!
Glad you’re covering it. I was lost.
- the soviet union will be pleased to offer amnesty to you wayward vessel.
- The Soviet Union? I thought you guys broke up
- Yes! Thats what we wanted you to think!
Simpsons really can be prophetic sometimes...
This was very well done.
People love to forget about the Little Green men
No, they love to forget some cheery fat Ukrainian militia dudes that stood against Western nazi hordes before little green man.
excellent. thank you!
well lads, shit just kicked off!!
Great video. Love your content.
7:10 Not really, the Crimean ASSR was a part of the RSFSR, it just changed its status. And an ASSR is not the same as an SSR.
emphasize
Great video!
Hey man, awesome stuff again. Just wondering if you could do a similar mini-doc on the recent situation and ongoing conflict in Libya. thx!
Good job! This should get a million views.
I hope there is no war in 2022 between Russian and Ukraine 😔 but it really happen now 😢 I hope this war will end forever....huhuhu...
Uhhhh about that
Needs updating now or write Jan 2022
I talked to many Crimeans and they all tell that Crimea was vey appolitical region of Ukraine. Like really, in all the president elections or referendums, Crimeans were mostly ignoring those elections. They cared most about their own wealth. And so, in 2014 so called "referendum" had two points -
1) Join Russia
2) Come back to constituion of 1994.
Most of crimeans had no idea what do they vote for, they didn't understood second point so it turned out like this.
There were some other missed part of Ukraine history like UPR but even though, video is great.
Greatings from Kharkiv, glory to Vinnytsa security forces!
Moreover, an agitation was hanging all over Crimea "a referendum is coming, choose: Russia or fascism"
you have seen uprising in Crimea against Russia ? When I was in Kharkov I only hear this Kharkov not Kharkivyou have linguistic problems, Was in Crimea under Ukrainian rule then under Russian Can tell you mostly were satisfied ; Ukrainian propaganda full of liars, I to be objective I like Ukraine very much its people tell me the contrary I was in Intourist giant Hotel four times in Yalta I am not pro Poutin only French
@@louisecorchevolle9241 When I was in Kharkov I only hear this Kharkov not Kharkiv you have linguistic problems, <
Huh. And what? If people not speaking ukranian then it not ukranian city?
@@louisecorchevolle9241 Kharkiv is in Ukrainian (Харків)
Like many Ukrainians, you only know how to lie.
The second point was:
"Are you for the restoration of the Constitution of the Republic of Crimea in 1992 and *for the status of Crimea as part of Ukraine?"*
wow.... actually good one. nice
Any reason why you left out the Crimean Tatars?
it is said thatey are martyrs bu Russia has one million tatars in Tatarstan an it is no problem
@@louisecorchevolle9241 Crimean tatars and just tatars are different ethnicities
they mentioned them briefly when they talked how tatars supported euromaidan
@@louisecorchevolle9241 Crimean Tatars don't call themselves like that. They call themselves Qirimli, means "Crimeans".
The only similarities they have with Tatars are religion and language.
They are as different as Germans and English or Czechs and Serbians.
I love how you always pay attention to proper pronunciation! Big love!
I think it is just on the verge of being kind of snobby. If it is about foreign places and cities that do not have a conventional English Name, it is properly more appropriate to try to get close to the pronunciation in the local language but in general I don't see why news reporters etc. should bend over backwards to pronounce phonemes that they do not have in their own language.
@@baldinggrey5368 trying to pronounce things correctly is snobby? lol ok. so you're saying he should try and pronounce it the way english speakers would even though he doesn't have a problem getting closer to the correct pronunciation?
17:47 bruh ... you forgot to say a referendum in Crimea happened AFTER Russian military forces occupied it
Yeah. How else are you gonna organise it?
@average ukrainian national-syndicalist It was attempted, I was going to awnser, but looking at your name . . . yeah, sorry m8.
@average ukrainian national-syndicalist Nigga a Russian’s opinion matters far more than a hohol’s lmaoooo your country is literally an American pawn.
@average ukrainian national-syndicalist "because the opinion of a Muscovite is not worth the time spent reading"
As far as I'm concerned Crimea belongs to Russia.
@average ukrainian national-syndicalist ну хорош плакать, с такими взглядами Крымчан не удержали бы)
Nice video
An important note: The Presidium "voiced support for a referendum" while the Crimea was already occupied by Russian military. Let's not forget that part.
Also Igor Girkin, the guy who probably gave an order to shoot down MH 17, himself said that he had to force Crimean Parlament members to enter the Parlament to vote for referendum.
@@denyspikalov3602 Well, we can't expect our foreign friends to know so much nuance, I suppose. They don't speak Russian so they have to rely on second-hand sources.
@@BIGESTblade yeah, you're right. Can't blame them for misunderstandings with all these Kremlin's bots here.
I just wish the Western Media would cover these important moments. Most of the sources in English about Ukraine are too simplified.
Thanks for another informative video! I'ld like to ask, well anyone for that matter - anyone knows which town, or city is in picture at around 2:35?
Looks very beautiful....
Hi, it's Český Krumlov and it is actually in Czech Republic, not Ukraine. The next city after that is Prague (the capital of Czech Republic)... I just cannot stop to wonder why the author used these two pictures...
@@ThSonny21 Ha! How weird...so it is really not in Ukraine, but in Czech Republic?
OK? Looks equally beautiful either way - if I get the chance I'ld like to visit there anyhow.
Thanks for the correction! Cheers from Sweden.
Watching this now is mad
Love to see a video dedicated to the Cossacks, the pens in Ukrainian lands and Russian and there roles in this current war.
Which channel is “war clashes”? There’s a subscribe banner at a couple of points through the video.
8:54 When it was independant, Belarus had its white and red flag and not the soviet-style flag
as well under collaborating wit nazis and genocide of jews
It is easier to use the current flag
@@ej_22 but not historically accurate
@@Game_Hero yeah
cosmic sceptic sure knows a lot about history
Great Video! I love that you are very objective and present things neutral. As an Iraqi I would love a Video about Iraq from 2003 to know. Keep up the good work!
This definitely helps me understand better about the current War...
Hey Hilbert, love your videos. Could you maybe male a video about Al-qaeda presence in India next?
A lot of Russia’s problems are geographic. If Russia and Ukraine were apart of the European Union would that change things? It’s obviously not possible: Russia’s far too autocratic and oppressive, notwithstanding its hostility. But say Russia became democratic: would the economic alliance and permeable borders allay Russian anxieties?
Doubtful, eu and the countries that make it up are becoming more and more authoritarian
This is the most fair and honest report in the situation there. It leaves some things out and presents others from a western perspective but is still by far the most accurate report I’ve found.
Thank you.
LEAVES OUT TRUTH AND PUTS IN NATO PROPAGANDA
@@MrDICKHEAD28 What is the nato propagando? Im trying to figure this out, as media is covered with natos side.
@@ina1994 NATO CREATED THE INVASION HYSTERIA WHEN RUSSIA WAS JUST MINDING IT'S OWN BUSINESS CONDUCTING ROUTINE YEARLY MILITARY DRILLS AND NATO USED IT FOR PROPAGANDA
SAYING IT WAS AN INVASION BUILD UP
NATO DID THIS SO CAN HAVE AN EXCUSE TO VIOLATE BUDAPEST AND MINSK AGREEMENTS BY SENDING ARMS TO UKRAINE WHICH UKRAINE WAS NOT FULFILLING THE MINSK AGREEMENT IN DONBASS REPUBLICS AND RECIEVING ARMS FROM NATO TO FIGHT SEPARATISTS
OBVIOUSLY KILL THEM AND EXPAND NATO
PUTIN DEMANDED TO ENFORCE THE AGREEMENTS
NATO AND UKRAINE IGNORED PUTIN'S DEMANDS TO ENFORCE THE AGREEMENT
SO PUTIN RECOGNIZE THE DONBASS REPUBLIC AND PROVIDED MILITARY ASSISTANCES AND PUTIN GAVE UKRAINIAN FORCES TO STOP SHELLING DONBASS WHICH WAS IGNORED TOO
SO YEAH PUTIN LAUNCH FULL SCALE INVASION
@@MrDICKHEAD28 so did russia not invade crimea? or is that also nato propaganda lmao
@@MarvelousSquad THE CRIMEAN PEOPLE ASKED RUSSIA FOR ASSISTANCE AFTER NEO-NAZIS TOOK OVER KIEV GOVT
AND BAN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
SO YOUR VERSION OF EVENTS IS FALSE
Russia itself started in Ukraine back when it was Kievan-Rus. That’s why Putin romanticizes the reunification of Ukraine to Russia. He sees the two countries as the same exact state.
He wants their stuff
@@julianshepherd2038 Yup
@@Jobe-13 Which is hilarious considering any time I've heard a Ukrainian be mistaken for a Russian they aren't happy about it AT ALL.
If that's the logic you think works then why don't you become a Reich like in WW2 and start mass murdering Russians to the east and pols to your west. Who stopped you again? Oh that's right true Ukrainians and Russians in brotherhood. And here we are again, Ukraine is being led by a exterior western force against it's brother
👆 here's is a fine example of a not very sane russian. these people can't get over the breakup of their empire (USSR)
Well time has told, hasn't it?
Why the part 3 is not complete?!
Of course we are not going to talk about what happened during Euromaidan Massacre. It definitely did not kickstarted armed defence of certain nationality in donbas, lol.
of course we will not talk about bringing Russians to Ukraine, invading another country and illegal referendum lol
@@ЛіліанаГалян Imagine using people which were forcibly relocated by Soviet Union as argument. What will be next? Will you start killing them as certain part of Ukraine army and government? Maybe Russia shouldn't have done the referendum so you could enjoy endless bloodshed in two parts of ukraine instead of one.
thanks for covering the war in my country