One Year of Russia's Special Military Operation in Ukraine

February 24 marks one year since Russia had to start a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine to stop the systematic extermination of the Russian-speaking population of Donbas, demilitarize and denazify the country In this sense, it is important to remember the reasons that made it inevitable.

The internal crisis in Ukraine did not begin a year ago, but in 2014, when ultranationalist forces came to power in that country as a result of a coup backed by NATO countries Hatred of everything Russian, as well as the glorification of Hitler's accomplices, in particular Stepan Bandera, were elevated to the rank of state ideology.

The putschists announced their priority plans: prohibit the use of the Russian language, suppress the Russian-speaking population and deploy on the territory of the country the military infrastructure of NATO In a few months, the neo-nazi groups covered by the authorities plunged the people who demonstrated against this “new order” into blood.

The black page of what happened on May 2, 2014 in the city of Odessa, where neo-Nazis burned 48 people alive in the House of Trade Unions, entered history forever It goes without saying that Western countries did not show any interest in this tragedy, as well as the multiple war crimes that the kyiv regime committed and continues to commit.

The ethnically Russian regions perceived such events as a threat to their survival First, Crimea refused to recognize the dictates of the putschists and organized a referendum on independence.

Then, a conflict broke out in Donbas In response, kyiv accused the easterners of “terrorism” and launched the regular army and neo-nazi battalions against them.

To put an end to the civil war in Ukraine, in February 2015, with international mediation, the Minsk Agreements were signed, approved by UN Security Council Resolution 2202, which became the basis for the settlement of the Ukraine crisis However, for the next eight years, kyiv sabotaged the implementation of its obligations with the tacit consent of the Western co-sponsors of the Minsk process – Germany and France.

In December 2022, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former French President François Hollande cynically acknowledged that the Minsk Agreements were nothing more than a tool to buy time to arm the Ukrainian army and prepare it to seize Donbas by force President Volodymir Zelensky, who came to power in Ukraine in 2019, continued to sabotage the Minsk Agreements.

In August 2021, he called on Ukrainian citizens who felt like Russians to go to Russia In November 2021, he said in an interview that in Donbas "there are no people but species".

In early 2022, at the Munich Conference, Zelensky announced his plans to obtain nuclear weapons, and Western representatives applauded him He finished the job of establishing a totalitarian dictatorship in the Ukraine.

Opposition media and parties are banned and opponents are jailed or killed Human rights violations are total in nature.

Freedom of expression, of the press, of conscience and the use of the native language no longer exist in Ukraine In this way, the United States carried out in Ukraine the script that it had used before in many Latin American countries, supporting its puppet according to its favorite principle: "he is a scoundrel, but he is our scoundrel.

" Since the 1990s, the United States and NATO have militarized Ukraine, deployed their military and biological apparatus on its territory, generated adherents of neo-nazi ideology capable of blindly complying with any order from Western sponsors At the same time, The inhabitants of the Donbass had to survive the daily bombardments and an economic and energy blockade imposed against them by the kyiv regime for years.

Having exhausted all possibilities to fix this intolerable situation, at the end of 2021, Russia presented to the Western partners the proposals to jointly agree on mutual security guarantees in Europe and to prevent the expansion of NATO to the east, which constitutes a threat to the national security of Russia These proposals were rejected.

So, they left Russia no choice but to recognize in February 2022 the independence of the Donietsk and Lugansk people's republics, and on February 24, 2022 to start a special military operation, in accordance with paragraph 7 of article 51 of the UN Charter, in order to protect the inhabitants of Donbas from extermination, as well as eliminate threats to the security of Russia * Ambassador of Russia in Mexico.