Ambassador Andrei Kelin on the origins of the crisis in Ukraine

Watch the Russian Ambassador Andrei Kelin’s comments on the origins of the crisis in Ukraine Key points: ▪︎ Significance of Ukraine for Russia ▪︎ Ultimate causes of the Ukrainian conflict ▪︎ Consequences of the Maidan uprising ▪︎ Ukrainian separatism ▪︎ Western interference into Ukrainian internal issues ▪︎ Failure of the Minsk Agreements ▪︎ Expansion of NATO / Russia-NATO relations ▪︎ Prospects of the Ukrainian settlement ▪︎ Russian security concerns ▪︎ Peace talks in Istanbul / UK interference into the negotiations ▪︎ US / UK proxy war against Russia ▪︎ Outcome of the conflict in Ukraine ▪︎ European security system ▪︎ Prospects of the multipolar world order ▪︎ UK-Russia relations *** 22 February 2024 marks the tenth anniversary of the anti-constitutional armed coup d’etat in Kiev. Back then, in February 2014, skilled provocateurs guided by American and European instructors led crowds of people into the streets in protest, with attractive slogans about a better European life, democracy, human rights and anti-corruption struggle. In reality, the mass disorder was well orchestrated and funded from outside the country in a bid to overthrow the legitimate government. Did the Ukrainians seeking changes for the better get what they were after? The answer is a resounding “no.” Euromaidan led to a deep rift in society, persecution, suppression of dissent, rampant nationalism and neo-Nazism, lawlessness and nihilism, a war on the Russian language and history, and the complete socioeconomic decay of the country. This is all the more tragic because the settlement of the political crisis that broke out at that time could have been completely bloodless. With this aim in mind, on Feb. 21, 2014, former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition leaders signed an agreement brokered by Germany, France and Poland. Its implementation would have made it possible to avoid tragic events that took place in Ukraine in the past ten years. But the victors of the “revolution of dignity” brushed it aside as a mere nuisance on their path to office. The Euromaidan did not bring Ukraine closer to democracy and progress. With the coup, the nationalists and their political supporters finally drove the situation to an impasse, taking the country and its citizens to the edge of an abyss. 📍Learn more: 📍Reference material: #Kelin #Ukraine #Maidan #UK #US #NATO