You also need to look into the US-led coup in 2014. The Maidan protests and the hired snipers to shoot at both sides to create a violent reaction.
The result was that the Russian-facing government was ousted and the one selected by Victoria Nuland was inserted. That allowed the NAZIs to shell the ethnic Russians in Donbas - for eight years!
Ukraine promised not to do that in the Minsk Agreements and broke those agreements even though they were supported by France and Germany. Merkel later said that they were just playing for time to get Ukraine armed - and they wonder why Putin does not trust them!
There was a rumour that Ukraine was about to implement a final push on Donbas and that is when Putin said: "No more!"
You also need to look into the US-led coup in 2014. The Maidan protests and the hired snipers to shoot at both sides to create a violent reaction.
The result was that the Russian-facing government was ousted and the one selected by Victoria Nuland was inserted. That allowed the NAZIs to shell the ethnic Russians in Donbas - for eight years!
Ukraine promised not to do that in the Minsk Agreements and broke those agreements even though they were supported by France and Germany. Merkel later said that they were just playing for time to get Ukraine armed - and they wonder why Putin does not trust them!
There was a rumour that Ukraine was about to implement a final push on Donbas and that is when Putin said: "No more!"