{"id":976,"date":"2022-02-21T23:02:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T03:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/?p=976"},"modified":"2024-03-04T01:08:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T05:08:36","slug":"donbas-minsk-ii-failed-now-recognized-protected-by-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/21\/donbas-minsk-ii-failed-now-recognized-protected-by-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Donbas: Minsk II Failed; Now Recognized &#038; Protected by Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the 2014 coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat in Ukraine, seven years of failure of the 2015 Minsk II agreement and further NATO expansion threats, Russia finally stepped in to <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220224100924\/http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/67828\">recognize the Donbas Republics and guarantees their protection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also read our Disclaimer \/ Lese auch unseren Haftungsausschluss (Links), welche hier und in den Kommentaren insbesondere bez\u00fcglich eventueller Links gilt.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a citizen of Germany and the EU,<br \/>\nI feel ashamed and express my condolences to the victims of the Ukrainian tragedy and strongly oppose the committed war crimes.<br \/>\nThe same goes for our involvement in the Yugoslavia- and Syria-Conflict, etc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(see <a href=\"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/22\/opportunism-economy-and-wars\/\">Opportunism, Economy and Wars<\/a> from 2014)<\/p>\n<p>After the 2014 coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat in Ukraine, initiated and executed by US, UK and EU actors, the 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minsk_Protocol#Minsk_II\">Minsk II agreement<\/a> failed for seven years ruining the life of the Donbas people, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osce.org\/special-monitoring-mission-to-ukraine\">see the OSCE reports of their Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osce.org\/files\/2022-02-19%20Daily%20Report.pdf?itok=95901\">2022-02-19 Daily Report 39\/2022<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osce.org\/files\/2022-02-20-21%20Daily%20Report_ENG.pdf?itok=82567\">2022-02-21 Daily Report 40\/2022<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osce.org\/files\/2022-02-22%20Daily%20Report_ENG.pdf?itok=63057\">2022-02-22 Daily Report 41\/2022<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osce.org\/files\/2022-02-23%20Daily%20Report_ENG.pdf?itok=47241\">2022-02-23 Daily Report 42\/2022<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>(Edit: In hindsight according to the OSCE reports, the military action against the Donbas region didn&#8217;t stop after Russia recognized and protected them!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Besides cease fire, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unian.info\/politics\/1043394-minsk-agreement-full-text-in-english.html\">Minsk II obliged Ukraine<\/a> to recognize the Donbas people&#8217;s vote for independence. Both has been sabotaged with military actions and denial until today.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/osce-reports-surge-number-explosions-east-ukraine-2022-02-19\/\">the Ukraine intensified their military campaign against Donbas<\/a>, empowered and supplied by the US and NATO with weapons and building tensions against Russia.<br \/>\nUS and NATO accused Russia to be the bad actor and to invade all of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>On 2022-02-21 <a href=\"https:\/\/thesaker.is\/putin-makes-a-statement-following-the-security-council-meeting-on-donbass-recognition\/\">Russia formally recognizes the Donbas Republics and signed a treaty<\/a> guaranteeing their protection from the Ukrainian military campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2022-02-21 1st Address by the President of the Russian Federation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/67828\">English translation<\/a> ( <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220224100924\/http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/67828\">cached archive.org<\/a> )<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anti-spiegel.ru\/2022\/praesident-putins-komplette-rede-an-die-nation-im-wortlaut\/\">German translation<\/a> ( <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220224171333\/https:\/\/www.anti-spiegel.ru\/2022\/praesident-putins-komplette-rede-an-die-nation-im-wortlaut\/\">cached archive.org<\/a> )<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GjMnTo85S4A\">Video with English Dub<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Russia earlier has <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2022\/01\/27\/russian-fm-us-did-not-give-positive-response-to-nato-expansion-concerns\/\">failed to receive guarantees from the US and NATO<\/a> to have <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2022\/01\/27\/russian-official-warns-a-new-missile-crisis-is-unavoidable-without-arms-control\/\">its own borders secured<\/a> by reinstating the <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/the-buzz\/newly-declassified-documents-gorbachev-told-nato-wouldnt-23629\">1990 NATO pledge to not expand beyond East German borders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A good <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MemoryoftheWorld:f\/31225:1\">read<\/a> &#8211; or <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@HumanitysVault:a\/The-Putin-Interviews:f\">watch<\/a> &#8211; are <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Putin_Interviews\">The Putin Interviews: Oliver Stone Interviews Vladimir Putin<\/a> (2015 &#8211; 2017) in this regards, having its central point around the consistent US administration&#8217;s policy to expand towards Russia while letting all nuclear treaties expire.<\/p>\n<p>I see the latest developments in its overall context of NATO expansion towards Russia and further deterioration of the relations between EU and Russia, even threatening the long term effort of North Stream II. This conflict might be about the economic &amp; political control of Europe after all.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Stone also covered a historical view on Ukraine in his <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ukraine_on_Fire\">Ukraine On Fire<\/a> (2016) documentary film, you might <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/search?q=ukraine%20on%20fire\">like to watch as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Dore&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KfaAyiP8Wuc\">Ukraine Neo-Nazis Infiltrate EVERY LEVEL Of Military &amp; Government<\/a> further substantiates the Nazi issue in Ukraine &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Updates 2022-02-25 &#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Besides the OSCE confirmed ongoing attacks in the Donbas region since 2022-02-21,<br \/>\nthere were rumors about breakthrough attacks of \u2018Ukraine\u2019 forces towards Luhansk and even the Russia border.<\/p>\n<p>On 2022-02-21, Russia started to move its military inside Donbas, otherwise no protection could have been given.<\/p>\n<p>On 2022-02-22, NATO (US, UK and EU) <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2022\/02\/22\/condemnation-at-un-for-russias-moves-on-donbass\/\">started with economic sanctions against Russia already<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On 2022-02-23 Russia started its attack against the Ukrainian forces, military targets only. <em>Demilitarize<\/em> and <em>de-Nazify<\/em> are Russia\u2019s stated goals.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This was addressed by Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2022\/02\/24\/watch-un-security-council-meets-as-russian-operation-begins\/\">during the UN\u2019s 8974th Security Council meeting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>2022-02-23\/24 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/67843\">Putin\u2019s 2nd Address<\/a><\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220224191201\/http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/67843\">cached archive.org<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It seems that Russia had enough with the ongoing military attacks against Donbas and\/or making a stand against the NATO eastward expansion. Probably both as stated by Putin on the 23rd\/24th Feb &#8217;22.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Updates 2022-03-10 &#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The war sadly continues, Ukraine being supported by the West with weapons, intelligence and monetary support declined to accept the Russian demands even though a <em>No NATO<\/em> pledge seemingly has been made by <span class=\"module__title__link\">Zelenskyy<\/span> at one time. <em>Only<\/em> a pledge to finally realize <em>Minsk II<\/em>, autonomous Donbas provinces, and demilitarization of the Nazi forces &#8211; after signing a <em>No NATO<\/em> security agreement with Ukraine (and perhaps with the West) &#8211; would be left to agree upon. However, it seems that Ukraine is being used as a tool for P<em>roxy War<\/em> between the West and Russia once again.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, it has been disclosed that <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2022\/03\/08\/nuland-us-working-with-ukraine-to-keep-biological-research-facilities-out-of-russias-hands\/\"><em>Biological Research Facilities <\/em><\/a>have been <a href=\"https:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/p\/victoria-nuland-ukraine-has-biological?s=w\">established in Ukraine<\/a>, which are or were used for <em>Gain of Function<\/em>\u00a0 &#8211; or less euphemistic <em>(banned) Biological Weapons<\/em> research.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, people have to suffer and die due to the power struggles of the puppet players.<\/p>\n<div class=\"quoteText\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"quoteText\">If you don&#8217;t read the newspaper, you&#8217;re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you&#8217;re mis-informed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quoteText\">The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"authorOrTitle\">&#8212; Mark Twain <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>.. let&#8217;s hope for the best, may peace and a secure stability between the West and East be achieved w\/o the unthinkable.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the 2014 coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat in Ukraine, seven years of failure of the 2015 Minsk II agreement and further NATO expansion threats, Russia finally stepped in to recognize the Donbas Republics and guarantees their protection. Also read our Disclaimer \/ Lese auch unseren Haftungsausschluss (Links), welche hier und in den Kommentaren insbesondere bez\u00fcglich eventueller Links&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/21\/donbas-minsk-ii-failed-now-recognized-protected-by-russia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donbas: Minsk II Failed; Now Recognized &#038; Protected by Russia<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[12,14,39,77,25,20],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-politics","tag-democracy","tag-freedom","tag-life","tag-peace","tag-security","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jausoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}