webfact Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 By Dmytro Deineko, Doctoral Researcher in International Law, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Considering the time frame, it is not correct to assume that russia’s war against Ukraine started after 24, February 2022. In February last year, the world witnessed the escalation of a war that had been going on for a long time. In the spring of 2014, russia occupied the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and tried to create “people’s republics” in the east, south and center of Ukraine. Russian citizens under the guise of an “independence movement” attempted to seize power in Donetsk and Luhansk with the support of russian armed forces. In response to these illicit acts Ukraine launched in 2014 an anti-terrorist operation. On February 24, 2022, russia officially attacked Ukraine and since then the lives of 45 millions of Ukrainians were not the same. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights verified a total of 7,155 civilian deaths during conflicts in Ukraine as of February 5, 2023. Of them, 438 were children. Furthermore, 11,662 people were reported to have been injured. However, OHCHR specified that the real numbers could be higher. Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/formula-for-peace-to-end-russia-ukraine-conflicts/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2023-02-24 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. The most versatile and flexible rental investment and holiday home solution in Thailand - click for more information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tug Posted February 24, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2023 It’s really simple Russia get out of Ukraine all of Ukraine return the children you kidnapped get rid of your criminal dictator pay reparations and turn over all of your war criminals simple 4 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kwasaki Posted February 24, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2023 12 minutes ago, Tug said: It’s really simple Russia get out of Ukraine all of Ukraine return the children you kidnapped get rid of your criminal dictator pay reparations and turn over all of your war criminals simple Yeah if it were only as simple as that. It's a waiting scenario. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saanim Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 Quote Considering the time frame, it is not correct to assume that russia’s war against Ukraine started after 24, February 2022. In February last year, the world witnessed the escalation of a war that had been going on for a long time. All the escalation despite the effort of the Minsk I, II treaties the parties were bound to heed. In the very February 2022 the shelling of Donbass areas had escalated: "OSCE reports more than 1,500 ceasefire violations in a single day in Ukraine" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220219-live-osce-monitors-report-dramatic-increase-in-ukraine-ceasefire-violations ...and the US staff of OSCE Special Monitoring Mission was ordered to pull out 13 Februaru 2022. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-staff-osce-begins-pullout-donetsk-eastern-ukraine-2022-02-13/ ...the others followed the suit: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/13/it-is-past-time-to-leave-ukraine-western-diplomats-flee-kyiv 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emster23 Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 Here are the steps towards peace that were omitted from abbreviated post Radiation and nuclear security; Food security; Energy security; Release of all deportees; Restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, respect for UN Charter; Total withdrawal of all russian troops from all of Ukraine; Punishment for war crimes; Protection for the environment, stopping russia’s ecocide in Ukraine; New security architecture and security guarantees for Ukraine; Signing of peace treaty. To get there, at a minimum, Putin has to go. Anyone up for the job? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post internationalism Posted February 24, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2023 (edited) That article is dishonest warmongering rather then peacekeeping. The end of article: ".. send the russian army to follow the trail of the russian warship “Moskva”. Ukraine is ready for immediate cooperation with foreign countries to implement a peace strategy, end the war, and prevent new russian aggression against other countries." so he sees a chance for peace only after russia military defeat and not diplomatic solution involving russia now, to stop war. Rather military collusion with the other countries against russia in hope of winning. Foreign countries can be involved to facilitate negotiations, but not siding with any side. That won't work. Author of this article works in ukrainian embassy in Bangkok, he should know about diplomacy. But he also is state employee and has to follow an official line. His employment was not mentioned in this article, only his previous one as an academic at kiev university. https://thailand.mfa.gov.ua/en/embassy/55-spivrobitniki-posolystva-ukrajini-v-korolivstvi-tajiland on margin - worth spot the difference in using capital letters in reference to russia and for president of ukraine. That is not how diplomacy should be done by skilled participants Edited February 24, 2023 by internationalism 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post pegman Posted February 24, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2023 It started when US State Dept players like neo-Con Victoria Nuland orchestrated the coup d'état in Kyiv in February 2014. This will go on as long as there is a single Ukrainian left to fight Biden's proxy war. Murderous thug Putin is a willing participant in this tragedy. A pox on them both. 2 1 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post placeholder Posted February 24, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2023 3 hours ago, Saanim said: All the escalation despite the effort of the Minsk I, II treaties the parties were bound to heed. In the very February 2022 the shelling of Donbass areas had escalated: "OSCE reports more than 1,500 ceasefire violations in a single day in Ukraine" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220219-live-osce-monitors-report-dramatic-increase-in-ukraine-ceasefire-violations ...and the US staff of OSCE Special Monitoring Mission was ordered to pull out 13 Februaru 2022. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-staff-osce-begins-pullout-donetsk-eastern-ukraine-2022-02-13/ ...the others followed the suit: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/13/it-is-past-time-to-leave-ukraine-western-diplomats-flee-kyiv You kind of left out one tiny little detail in relation to Minsk 2: "A major blockage has been Russia’s insistence that it is not a party to the conflict and therefore is not bound by its terms." https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/9/what-is-the-minsk-agreement-and-why-is-it-relevant-now 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
internationalism Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 there were peace negotiations started already 2 weeks into war, they were progressing nicely, with full knowledge of biden, macron, scholtz, until Boris Johnson made an unexpected visit to kiev in April and stopped them. Those talks were initiated by Zelensky with help of the former Israeli PM Bennett, who went to Moscow and putin agreed. Meeting were taking place in ankara, Erdogan tries to take credit for them. https://jacobin.com/2023/02/ukraine-russia-war-naftali-bennett-negotiations-peace Naftali Bennett, the former PM, on 6.02.2023 put on his youtube channel an inverview, those negotiations are mentioned in 2h 55" into this broadcast. It's in hebrew, but english subtitled. Also chinese state media, as well as many minor outlets, published an english transcript. Further attempts of negotiations by Turkey failed. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bkk Brian Posted February 24, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2023 (edited) 22 minutes ago, internationalism said: there were peace negotiations started already 2 weeks into war, they were progressing nicely, with full knowledge of biden, macron, scholtz, until Boris Johnson made an unexpected visit to kiev in April and stopped them. Those talks were initiated by Zelensky with help of the former Israeli PM Bennett, who went to Moscow and putin agreed. Meeting were taking place in ankara, Erdogan tries to take credit for them. https://jacobin.com/2023/02/ukraine-russia-war-naftali-bennett-negotiations-peace Naftali Bennett, the former PM, on 6.02.2023 put on his youtube channel an inverview, those negotiations are mentioned in 2h 55" into this broadcast. It's in hebrew, but english subtitled. Also chinese state media, as well as many minor outlets, published an english transcript. Further attempts of negotiations by Turkey failed. Not true, there were no peace talks progressing nicely. In fact Putin refused just as he invaded: Exclusive: As war began, Putin rejected a Ukraine peace deal recommended by aide https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/exclusive-war-began-putin-rejected-ukraine-peace-deal-recommended-by-his-aide-2022-09-14/ Then just over 3 weeks into the war Putin refused again Zelensky: We won't join NATO if that brings peace https://nypost.com/2022/03/22/zelensky-we-wont-join-nato-if-that-brings-peace/ Edited February 24, 2023 by Bkk Brian 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post vandeventer Posted February 24, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2023 4 hours ago, Tug said: It’s really simple Russia get out of Ukraine all of Ukraine return the children you kidnapped get rid of your criminal dictator pay reparations and turn over all of your war criminals simple Sad to say, Putin will never end this conflict as long as he is alive. He doesn't care how many Ukraine men, women. and children he kills. Or how many Russians die. The Russian people don't know the true number of death's of the Russian Army if they did maybe all this would stop? 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
placeholder Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 29 minutes ago, internationalism said: there were peace negotiations started already 2 weeks into war, they were progressing nicely, with full knowledge of biden, macron, scholtz, until Boris Johnson made an unexpected visit to kiev in April and stopped them. Those talks were initiated by Zelensky with help of the former Israeli PM Bennett, who went to Moscow and putin agreed. Meeting were taking place in ankara, Erdogan tries to take credit for them. https://jacobin.com/2023/02/ukraine-russia-war-naftali-bennett-negotiations-peace Naftali Bennett, the former PM, on 6.02.2023 put on his youtube channel an inverview, those negotiations are mentioned in 2h 55" into this broadcast. It's in hebrew, but english subtitled. Also chinese state media, as well as many minor outlets, published an english transcript. Further attempts of negotiations by Turkey failed. From that article: "An early peace deal could have ended the bloody war in Ukraine. But NATO opposition and revelations about the Russian massacre of civilians at Bucha, along with US media that all but ignored potential routes to peace, dashed those hopes." So even it it was true that negotiations could have succeeded, massive Russian war crimes put an end to that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 7 minutes ago, vandeventer said: Sad to say, Putin will never end this conflict as long as he is alive. He doesn't care how many Ukraine men, women. and children he kills. Or how many Russians die. The Russian people don't know the true number of death's of the Russian Army if they did maybe all this would stop? I agree that Putin is all in, there is no way out for him but his demise. The 64 trillion dollar question is how many people he takes with him. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwasaki Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 1 hour ago, Jingthing said: I agree that Putin is all in, there is no way out for him but his demise. The 64 trillion dollar question is how many people he takes with him. Yes certainly the saying comes to mind. Winston Churchill Quote: “Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saanim Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 2 hours ago, placeholder said: You kind of left out one tiny little detail in relation to Minsk 2: "A major blockage has been Russia’s insistence that it is not a party to the conflict and therefore is not bound by its terms." https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/9/what-is-the-minsk-agreement-and-why-is-it-relevant-now You are deflecting - as usually. How could I "left out" that when I did not quote or reference that link. Your link is an article of Aljazeera with the media comments, not quote of the Minsk agreements. BTW, whether a party is (was) bound or not? That's very known from the disclosures of Poroschenko, Merkel, Holland, to name just few. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertson468 Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 Putin's motto is "Lie and Deny!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwasaki Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 2 minutes ago, robertson468 said: Putin's motto is "Lie and Deny!" Could be a western countries motto also. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 28 minutes ago, Kwasaki said: Yes certainly the saying comes to mind. Winston Churchill Quote: “Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.” So you're saying what? Surrender? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 17 minutes ago, Kwasaki said: Could be a western countries motto also. False equivalence. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwasaki Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 29 minutes ago, Jingthing said: So you're saying what? Surrender? Weird comes to mind now. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
placeholder Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 2 minutes ago, Kwasaki said: Weird comes to mind now. More like "evasiveness". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 2 minutes ago, Kwasaki said: Weird comes to mind now. I find your POV weird. You can't negotiate with Putin period. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vandeventer Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 If this video is true than what is Thailand's stance? Are we neutral? https://fb.watch/iUhbM4IBYa/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post placeholder Posted February 24, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2023 59 minutes ago, Saanim said: You are deflecting - as usually. How could I "left out" that when I did not quote or reference that link. Your link is an article of Aljazeera with the media comments, not quote of the Minsk agreements. BTW, whether a party is (was) bound or not? That's very known from the disclosures of Poroschenko, Merkel, Holland, to name just few. Just because what you linked to doesn't mention that, doesn't mean that you didn't leave it out. Particularly as you have tried this Minsk ploy over and over again and have been called on it repeatedly. The fact is Russia denied that Minsk 2 applied to it. This is a huge, overwhelming fact and unless you want to claim utter ignorance of their claim, it's clear what you are up to. 5 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 5 minutes ago, vandeventer said: If this video is true than what is Thailand's stance? Are we neutral? https://fb.watch/iUhbM4IBYa/ We? Who's we? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vandeventer Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 14 minutes ago, Jingthing said: We? Who's we? You live in Thailand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingthing Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 1 minute ago, vandeventer said: You live in Thailand? I am not Thai. This is an expat forum. The position or lack thereof of the government of Thailand has nothing to do with expats. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwasaki Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 25 minutes ago, placeholder said: More like "evasiveness". Another weird one who can't see what is really happening. That's one of the problems on Asiannow just looking at a situation from an open mind and not taking sides a poster gets vilified. This war is not going well and with Dam still in tack and nuclear reactors about is the reason I reminded posters here of what Churchill said. And for all the gunho community Putin is going to get near to that desperation is he not.? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwasaki Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 43 minutes ago, Jingthing said: I find your POV weird. You can't negotiate with Putin period. What by saying that Putin could be a man driven to desperation. Let's everybody go Gunho that's the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
placeholder Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 9 minutes ago, Kwasaki said: Another weird one who can't see what is really happening. That's one of the problems on Asiannow just looking at a situation from an open mind and not taking sides a poster gets vilified. This war is not going well and with Dam still in tack and nuclear reactors about is the reason I reminded posters here of what Churchill said. And for all the gunho community Putin is going to get near to that desperation is he not.? So you're the Chosen One who can really see what's happening? It is to laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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