In order to keep Minsk from allowing Russia to use the Belarusian part to invade Belarus, US Senator James Lankford contributed to the Senate’s draft “Law on Obligations for Aggression.” This is stated in Opublished on Friday, February 11, on the website of the Republican Senator from Oklahoma.
The bill provides for the introduction against Belarus or any other country that supports “Russia’s ongoing unprovoked aggression against the sovereignty and territorial affiliation of Ukraine.”
Transfer of 130 thousand military personnel to the Russian-Ukrainian border and sending to the Black Sea and six ships of the Navy.
The bill does not see differences between the Russian Federation and any other country
Noting that Belarus allows approaching an approaching soldier, Senator Lankford added that “the United States must clearly understand that against any country that approaches Russia to invade Ukraine, severe restrictions and coverage will be applied.”
The analysis made to Ukraine does not distinguish between the Russian Federation and for the most part includes Belarus, which helps or facilitates the development of force in any act of military aggression that violates sovereign control or territorial affiliation. In particular, actions for which accession may be introduced include: joint participation in Russia in the invasion of Ukraine; providing material, tactical or other support to the Russian invasion; deployment on its territory of the troops of the Russian Federation, participants in the attack; cooperation with Russian intelligence during the Invasion; and the purchase or transfer of lethal weapons used during the invasion of Ukraine.
Russia is building up its military potential around
On February 10, in Belarus, joint exercises with Russia took place, in which more than 30,000 arrests took place. In addition, it became known about the Russian naval maneuvers that will take place from February 13 to 19 in the Black Sea, as a result of which part of the water area, as well as the Kerch Strait, will be closed to navigation, including merchant ships from third countries.
According to the intelligence services of Western countries, Russia has deployed more than 100,000 troops to the annexed Crimea and the border with Ukraine. The West is calling on Moscow to withdraw troops from the Ukrainian border and is threatening unprecedented sanctions. Russia accuses Western countries of the armed forces of Ukraine and is approaching the borders of the Russian Federation, and also demands the provision of legally fixed “security guarantees” to it. The January series of negotiations between Russia and the United States, ensuring security and safety did not lead to results, like other meetings of Western countries with security.
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A Brief History of the Ukrainian-Russian Confrontation
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the creation of the CIS
In December 1991, Ukraine, Russia and Belarus documented the collapse of the USSR. Moscow obviously calculated the impact on the distribution and supply of cheap gas. But it turned out differently. The Russian Federation and Belarus include a union state, Ukraine has increasingly looked to the West. In the photo: Leonid Kravchuk, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Boris Yeltsin and Stanislav Shushkevich during the official stay of the CIS in Almaty.
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A Brief History of the Ukrainian-Russian Confrontation
Legacy of the USSR and the Budapest Memorandum
Ukraine inherited from the USSR almost a million strong army and the 3rd largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Sending Kiev in exchange for economic assistance and security guarantees (Budapest Memorandum 1994). As long as the West does not use mutual communication with Kiev and is not going to integrate it into its structures, the Russian Federation has been restrained. In the photo: Russian and US leaders Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton.
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A Brief History of the Ukrainian-Russian Confrontation
Cracks in Post-Soviet Friendship: Tuzla Conflict
The first major episode of the crisis between Moscow and Kiev was uncovered under President Putin. In the fall of 2003, Russia suddenly began building a dam in the Kerch Strait in an adaptation of the Ukrainian island of Tuzla. Kiev considered this an attempt to redistribute borders. The conflict was resolved after a personal meeting of the presidents. The first cracks appeared.
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A Brief History of the Ukrainian-Russian Confrontation
Orange Revolution 2004
In the presidential elections in Ukraine in 2004, the Russian Federation actively supported the pro-Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovych, but the “orange revolution” did not allow him to win against the background of protection in falsification. Pro-Western politician Viktor Yushchenko became president. His victory was the starting point of change in the voting of the Russian Federation, officials did not allow what Moscow calls “color revolutions.”
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A Brief History of the Ukrainian-Russian Confrontation
Shutting off Ukraine’s “gas valve” in the 2000s
During the presidency of Viktor Yushchenko, the Russian Federation blocked Ukraine’s “gas valve” – in 2006 and 2009. In the photo: a Gazprom employee at the Sudzha gas measuring station, 200 meters from the Ukrainian border, Kursk Region, Russia, 2009.
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A Brief History of the Ukrainian-Russian Confrontation
The promise of NATO membership
The key event happened in 2008. At the US President’s summit in Bucharest, George W. Bush proposed a solution to the problem of Georgia and Georgia, the Alliance Training Action Plan (MAP). Putin sharply objected, making it clear that he did not fully recognize the independence of Ukraine. In the end, Germany and France blocked Bush’s plan. Ukraine and Georgia demand NATO membership, but no dates.
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A Brief History of the Ukrainian-Russian Confrontation
Ukraine’s course on applications
It was not possible to quickly advance along the paths of security in NATO, and Ukraine set a course for economic rapprochement with the EU. In the summer of 2013, the Russian Federation began to transport large-scale pressure to Kiev, almost blocking Ukrainian exports at the border. The Yanukovych government has suspended preparations for signing an association agreement with Brussels. Yanukovych fled to Russia.
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A Brief History of the Ukrainian-Russian Confrontation
Russian annexation of Crimea
A power vacuum emerged in Ukraine, in March 2014 Russia annexed Crimea. This was a turning point, the beginning of an undeclared war. Pictured: servicemen in Crimea (Simferopol, March 2014).
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A Brief History of the Ukrainian-Russian Confrontation
War in Donbass
Russian and foreign paramilitary structures, which were proclaimed during the outbreak of separatism in the Donbass, were proclaimed “people’s republics” in Donetsk and Luhansk, and people in unmarked uniforms who had come from the Russian Federation were in charge met. Kiev decided to react slowly to the presidential elections at the end of May 2014 and only then to the large-scale use of force.
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A Brief History of the Ukrainian-Russian Confrontation
Birth of the Normandy Format
In early June 2014, the President of Germany, during the events on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the meeting of the allies in Normandy of the newly elected Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, met for the first time with his colleague Putin, mediated by the leaders and France. This is how the “Norman format” was born.
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A Brief History of the Ukrainian-Russian Confrontation
“Ilovaisky cauldron”
In the summer of 2014, the Ukrainian army began to push back the separatists, but at the end of August, Russia, according to Kiev, used its army on a large scale in the Donbass. Moscow denies this. The peak of the conflict was the defeat of the Ukrainian forces near Ilovaisk. The war along the entire front line ended with the signing in September in Minsk of an obligation to consume fire, which was quickly violated.
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A Brief History of the Ukrainian-Russian Confrontation
Positional war continues
In early 2015, the separatists went on a broad offensive. Kiev accused Moscow of using unmarked armed forces, the Russian Federation denies everything. Ukrainian forces were defeated near the city of Debaltseve. Then, with the mediation of the Federal Republic of Germany and the court, “Minsk-2” was signed, an agreement that still remains the main document for resolving the conflict. None of its points has been fully implemented.
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A Brief History of the Ukrainian-Russian Confrontation
Concentration of Ukrainian Russian troops on the border
In 2021, there was a new aggravation. Russia, in spring and autumn, pulled troops to the western borders. Ukrainian and Western intelligence reports about the threat of a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine. To defuse the situation, a series of international negotiations took place in the West. However, the Russian Federation demands guarantees that Ukraine will not join NATO, and it is known that it is not going to withdraw troops yet.
Author: Roman Goncharenko