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2010: Viktor Yanukovich is elected president of Ukraine in a fair election, according to the OSCE.
2013: Yanukovich strengthens economic ties with Russia and moves away from the EU as the loans from Russia were were a much better deal than the loans from the EU (IMF).
2013: Senator John McCain discusses US backed regime change for Ukraine on CNN.
2013: US Assistant Secretary of State Nuland and US Ambassador to Ukraine Piatt discuss the upcoming coup of President Yanukovich and of who his replacement will be. (leaked phone call), choosing to lead the unpopular Yatsenyuk who infact becomes Prime Minister, later leaving office with single digit approval rating.
February 2014: Yanukovich is overthrown by nationalists in a violent coup.
February 2014: Nationalist groups flood cities harassing ethnic minorities. (Ethnic Russians are a minority in Ukraine, but a Majority in some regions.)
March 1 2014: Crimea's elected leader, Sergey Aksyonov, requests Russian security assistance.
March 3 2014: Vice news reports soldier convoys entering Crimea. (It is later revealed that this is a private security force.)
March 16 2014: Crimea votes to join Russia by a 95% majority. The U.S. state radio NPR reports that "The referendum had widely been expected to pass; Crimea's parliament has already voted to seek annexation by Russia."
March 18 2014: Russia annexes Crimea. Western media accuses Russian of invading, but not a single life was lost nor any structural damage done. (For reference, that would be like Canada taking half of Mane without a single shot fired.)
April 2014: Ukraine military launches attack on Donbass, (a somewhat separately governed eastern portion of Ukraine). The Donbass small military and volunteers defend the region. Some Russian backed security forces assist in the fight.
April 2014 Ukraine passes a law against using the Russian language in government, business, school, and media settings, which is met with more protests across the eastern and southern regions.
May 2014: Odessa - Dozens of Ethnic Russian protestors are burnt alive by Nazi groups, and ethnic Russian minorities are murdered and harassed throughout the country.
May 2014: leaders from the Luhansk and Donetsk regions request independence and repatriation to Russia, but the Kremlin refuses.
Sept. 2014: Minsk 1 - First ceasefire treaty is signed but doesn't last, in part because right wing Nationalists (Svoboda, Azov, Right Sector, Fatherland, Trident, White Hammer....), won't stop attacking ethnic Russians especially in the eastern regions where there are majority Russians..
Feb. 2015: Minsk 2 - Second treaty allows Russian military to stay to defend civilians in the breakaway regions. Chancellor Merkel later in 2023 states this agreement was a ruse and was only intended to give an advantage to NATO to better arm and train Ukraine for future attacks.
2016: US leads an anti Russia propaganda campaign, beginning with the bogus Russiagate collusion accusation hatched in the DNC in the run-up to U.S. presidential general election. In over 8 years there have been numerous studies (Mueller Report, Durham Report, Twitter Files Reveal, etc.), that have debunked this accusation and not one person has been prosecuted for it.
May 2016: NATO activates new missile systems in Romania. (Close to Russia)
June 2016: NATO launches Anti Russian war games with 31,000 troops near Russia’s western border. This scale exercise hasn't happened since the Cold War. German troops retrace the steps of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union across Poland.
May 2018 UNICEF reports that as many as half a million eastern Ukrainian children are in danger due to attacks coming from Kyiv, which started in 2014.
May 2019: Petro Poroshenko leaves office with under 10% approval rating (lowest of any leader in the world). ... Volodymyr Zelensky wins election on promise to end the attacks on eastern Ukraine regions.
May 2021: Zelensky meets with Antony Blinken and Victoria Nuland, subsequently breaking his mandate and agreeing to escalate attacks on eastern Ukraine.
December 2021: Russia attempts to negotiate the removal of the Romanian NATO missiles. NATO rejects the negotiations.
February 2022: Ukrainian military initiates a new bombing campaign into the separatist regions (OSCE) while Ukrainian Nationalist militias (openly Nazi as per their flags) increase their attacks on the minority Russian population. Kyiv commits nearly 5000 UN ceasefire violations and hundreds die. Russia intervenes on behalf of eastern Ukraine regions and in defense of its shared border on Feb 24th.
March 2022 Russia and Ukraine schedule two peace negotiations, both blocked by the U.S. and U.K.
September 2022: Donbass, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia vote to join the Russian Federation.
March 2023 U.S. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh reports the embezzlement of $400 million by Zelensky and his inner circle.
April 2024: Volodymyr Zelensky's presidency ends, but he has cancelled elections, and closed all 14 opposition parties, jailing some of the opposition leaders, and so he remains in power.
February 2025: The U.S. and NATO claim $300 billion of Russian (private and public) assets to be used for Ukraine's defense and reparations.
All Zelensky had to do was to accede to and implement the initial Minsk II Agreements, which basically required Ukraine to remain outside NATO in exchange for Russian troops would be removed and Donbas regions would remain within Ukraine's border. This would have also saved roughly a million lives. However Zelensky was too weak of character to do what the majority of his people wanted, what he was voted in to do, and instead accepted the cynical plans of Antony Blinken, VIctoria Nuland, and Jake Sullivan.
