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RUSSIAN "INVASION" OF S.E.UKRAINE  

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5/30/2018 2:34 am
RUSSIAN "INVASION" OF S.E.UKRAINE

In 2014 the Russian-speaking population of the Donbass (S.E.Ukraine) declared independence &fought off government troops sent to quell the rebellion,beginning a civil war which continues sporadically till the present day Why did this happen? The previous Ukranian government got on fairly well with Russia,depite difficulties in paying the annual bill for Russian gas &fuel. In mid November2013,demonstrations by right wing nationalists began in the capital.Kiev,because of government corruption &the;suspension of plans for closer ties to the EU in favour of closer ties with Russia.
These demonstrations degenerated into riots,& became increasingly violent over the next few months.In late February 2014 a demonstration in Kiev's Maidan Square was hijacked by armed right wing extrmists.The police were also armed,&it's unclear which side began the shooting,but many people on both sides were killed.The Nationalists,after committing some of the worst atrocities,succeeded in ousting the government by force,despite the fact that elections were due to be held in a few months time.The new government was hostile to Russia & began enacting legislation which victimiseed Ukrainians of Russian descent.
The Russian speakers of S.E.Ukraine felt they had been disenfranchised &the democratically elected government they had voted for removed by force,so declared independence. Govt.troops sent to occupy the area were repulsed. Weapons &small numbers of civilian volunteers,mostly ex-armed forces,were sent in from neighbouring Russia to assist them (stories of columns of Russian tanks &regiments of special forces are a fiction). Putin believes Russia has a duty to support fellow Russians in Ukraine,just as Mrs Thatcher believed she should support the British in the Falklands when they were invaded.The US supported the Nationalists from the very start,& there are suspicions that the CIA had some involvement,just as they did when regime changes took place in Chile (Allende),Iran (Mossadeq),& several other countries.

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