Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rationale for invading Ukraine was clear from as far back as 2008, more than a decade before the current invasion, writes Juris Pupcenok and Graig Klein.
We traced Putin’s rationale for invading Ukraine as far back as 2008, more than a decade before the current invasion. In one statement on 11 September 2008, the“to heroize the accomplices of fascism,” violate “the rights of Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population” and “oust the Russian language from the public life of the country, science, education, culture and the mass media.”
Our findings indicate that the world should listen when Russia starts trash-talking other countries. Similar accusations and storytelling wereWhile the accusations are false and become pillars, these repeated Russian claims appear to potentially foreshadow Russian aggression and intervention in neighboring countries.
In a period that has been largely forgotten, Russian-Ukrainian relations were largely defined by Russian attempts to build a strategic partnership with the neighboring country before 2013. Negotiations led to cooperative approaches for handling military threats and conflict in neighboring regions. Russian
on 23 September, 2005, that there was “a common striving to continue seeking to improve the atmosphere in Russian-Ukrainian relations.”
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