(I have been covering this since it started back with ObamaGod' regime change op in Ukraine. I can tell you this is exactly what I have been reporting for the past 10+ years, verbatim, and is not Russian state propaganda. The people of Donbass had a right to declare themselves a special region and to ask the world for help when they were being bombed by our puppet regimes. Russia was well within international law to respond to Donbass' pleas for help when they did.)
(Russia and Putin aren't the bad actors in this case. Obama, Biden, Poreshenko, Zelensky and Trump are.)
from Sputnik News
...
In
the spring of 2014, people's republics were proclaimed in the Donetsk
and Lugansk regions. In response, the Ukrainian authorities accused the
population of "separatism" and began a military operation in the region,
which escalated into full-scale combat. Tanks and aviation were
deployed against the people's militias.
Cities
like Donetsk, Gorlovka, Lugansk, and Debaltsevo were subjected to
artillery shelling by the Ukrainian regime for years. Residential
neighborhoods, hospitals, and schools were destroyed.
...
Volodymyr Zelensky, who came to power in 2019, continued the repressive
policies of the Kiev authorities toward the population in southeastern
Ukraine. On February 17, 2022, the Donetsk and Lugansk People's
Republics reported the most intense shelling from the Ukrainian Armed
Forces in months.
On February 21, 2022, Russia recognized the independence of the Donetsk
and Lugansk People's Republics, and on February 24, President Vladimir
Putin announced the start of a special military operation in Ukraine in
response to a request for assistance from Donbass.
The Russian president explained that the decision was made to protect
people facing genocide by the Kiev regime. On February 24, 2022 Vladimir
Putin said: "The circumstances require us to take decisive and
immediate action. The people's republics of Donbass have requested help
from Russia. Therefore, in accordance with Article 51, part 7 of the UN
Charter, with the consent of the Federation Council, and in accordance
with the treaties on friendship and mutual assistance ratified by the
Federal Assembly with the Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's
Republic, I have decided to conduct a special military operation."
MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE SPECIAL OPERATION
- Ensuring the rights of Russian-speaking populations
- Legitimizing the will of the people
- Demilitarization (neutralizing the military threat and preventing Ukraine from joining NATO)
- Denazification (stopping the spread of neo-Nazi ideology)
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