The Russian President signed on Monday, the act of recognition of the two separatist republics of Donbass and announced that he sent his army in support. The initiative ends the diplomatic sequence open eight years ago by the Minsk agreements.
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First of all a long speech, two decades of resentment and concentrated grievances in an impromptu television address and full of cold anger, sighs and threatenly veiled threats addressed to the West and Ukraine, obsession. Russian President Vladimir Putin. Then, a few hours later in the evening of Monday, February 21, the first columns of armors who were entering the donbass, timidly filmed by locals posted at their windows.
Between the two, a decision that the leader of the Kremlin presented as “necessary and matured for a long time” but which immerses Ukraine and the whole Europe in an area of uncertainties and turbulence: the “immediate” recognition ” By Russia of the independence of the two separatist entities of the Ukrainian donbass, the “popular republics” of Donetsk and Louhansk. Decision followed by the almost immediate dispatch of troops to support them.
In the confrontation open for several months with the West, this decision constitutes a major escalation. So far, Vladimir Putin had taken care to appear in the second line, leaving the formal initiative to his obligatory donbass or Belarus. He himself had just promised a “military technique” response after the Westerners’ refusal to grant Russia the “security guarantees” that it has been claiming since the fall of 2021.
m. Putin has established a link between these two subjects – the conflict in the Donbass and the broader issue of the role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Europe – by making Ukraine “a colony with a Fantoche “transformed into a struggle instrument, including military, against Russia. In particular, he mentioned the “serious” possibility that Ukraine acquires nuclear weapons.
Previously, in this same long speech, he had returned to his favorite theme, “madness” that “creation” of modern Ukraine would have constituted by the Soviet Union. The Russian President continued his long historical development until “corruption” in Kiev, betrayal by Ukraine “of our common values” or the transformation of Crimea into a “terrorist home”.
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In the case of the conflict in the Donbass, this initiative of Mr. Putin definitively ends the diplomatic sequence open eight years ago by the Minsk agreements, and therefore to the hope of a peaceful and political settlement of this conflict. Paradoxical, Russia loses one of its favorite pressure levers against Kiev, whether it is the denunciation of the shortcomings of Ukraine or the loss of sovereignty that would have involved for this country The implementation of the agreements – signed successively in September 2014 and February 2015 after direct interventions of the Regular Russian army.
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