As of the 26th, Ukraine has been plunged into war, and the war from ignition to explosion occurred in just two days.
Unprecedented tensions in Russia and Ukraine have topped the news list, making people feel that war has never been so close to them.
Why did Ukraine suddenly break off diplomatic relations with Russia, and why did Russia suppress Ukraine by force? Where should Ukraine, now under siege in all its aspects, go?
To understand this, we must first understand the origins of these two places.
01, ben is born from the same root
Ukrainians and Russians are all of the same race, so for a long time they belonged to the same country.
In 1654, Ukraine accepted the rule of the Tsar and signed a treaty with Russia. This means that Ukraine is incorporated into Russia. But Ukraine still has independent executive power.
It was not until 1658 that the pro-Polish faction of Ukraine came to power and wanted to break away from Russia and defect to Poland, and Russia went to war with Poland.
Finally, Poland signed a contract with Russia to divide the eastern and western parts of Ukraine under the contract.
Russia gets the eastern part of Ukraine, while Poland gets the western part of Ukraine. Therefore, the pro-European west and the pro-Russia east have long laid the groundwork for the tug-of-war between the pro-European and pro-Russian factions in Ukraine.
In 1795, eighty percent of the territory of Ukraine was incorporated into Russia; in 1812, almost all of Ukraine's territory was incorporated into the territory of the Russian State.
After the overthrow of Tsarist Russia, on January 22, 1918, Ukraine declared its independence from Soviet Russia, but soon announced its accession to the Soviet Union in 1922 and its re-integration into Russia.
In 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine regained its independence.
However, the pro-Russian pro-European problem in the east and the pro-European in the west are problems left over from history, which have never been resolved, and the contradictions have become more and more intense.
For example, during the reign of the Soviet Union, Donetsk in Luhansk and Crimea in the Donbass Basin were divided into Ukraine, so that although it was Ukrainian territory, it was inhabited by many Russians.
On January 22, 1918, Ukraine declared its independence
As a result, Ukraine's relations with Russia have become more complicated, with Ukrainian Russians eager to return to their homeland and pro-European factions firmly following the pro-European path.
After the pro-European faction came to power, the pro-Russian and pro-European factions in Ukraine continued to tug-of-war.
At that time, the Ukrainian government had some problems in its policy, which led to a sustained downturn in the Ukrainian economy, and the desire of pro-Russian factions to return to Russia was unprecedentedly strong.
All of this led to the outbreak of color revolutions in Ukraine. The government at the time was pro-European, and the consequence of this revolution was the choice to leave Ukraine and join Russia after a referendum in Crimea.
Freezing three feet is not a cold day, in fact, the beginning of Crimea's incorporation into the Russian state, Ukraine and Russia today's situation has long foreshadowed.
Geographical map of Crimea
02, there are early warnings
After the annexation of Crimea to Russia in 2014, Ukraine was very worried about Both Don and Lu. Because of historical problems, these two places are very pro-Russian and may be incorporated into Russia in the future.
As a result, Ukraine amended two laws, which was equivalent to declaring Ukraine's pro-European tendencies to join NATO.
In 2019, the Ukrainian conference adopted a strategic approach to NATO.
Choosing to join NATO is equivalent to choosing to completely stand on the opposite side of Russia, and there are already hidden dangers in the northwest direction of Russia, and Ukraine's move is tantamount to worsening.
Ukraine joined NATO, on the one hand, because the United States regarded Russia as a threat, violated the commitment of "no eastward expansion", and continued to expand eastward, making Ukraine feel full of a sense of crisis;
On the other hand, at that time, the contradictions between Russia and Ukraine were already becoming more and more serious because of the problems between Donetsk and Luhansk, and the pro-European faction strongly advocated joining NATO in order to gain European asylum.
Ukraine's determination to join NATO escalates the contradictions, and once Ukraine joins NATO, NATO's military forces will have the opportunity to threaten russia's borders.
After Biden took office, he was very tough on Russia. Ukraine's accession to NATO will threaten Russia's borders and its backs will be attacked, so the United States will vigorously encourage and promote Ukraine's accession to NATO.
At the same time, the United States sells military weapons to Ukraine. With such a move by the United States, it is implied that it will support Ukraine, and the Ukrainian government dares to make remarks:
"Crimea belongs to us! We will take back the land that belongs to us by force. Russia continues to invade and interfere in our eastern region, and we want to fully regain our autonomy in the eastern region. ”
Since Last November, the Ukrainian government has been bluffing against Russia, saying it is conducting unusual military drills in the border areas between the two countries, with the intention of invading Ukraine.
The United States has also continued to exaggerate and preach that Russia will soon invade Ukraine.
Russia has repeatedly denied what the United States calls the "invasion theory."
They stressed that Russia never wanted to invade Ukraine and occupy Ukrainian territory, but that NATO's activities on russia's borders threatened Russia's security at all times, and Russia had to defend itself.
In 2021, the Russian side proposed to NATO that it would stop NATO's eastward expansion, but it was ignored.
The following year, Russia again proposed to the United States in its security pledge that it hoped that NATO and the United States would stop eastward expansion and that NATO would ignore the demand to absorb Ukraine into NATO, but the United States still rejected the draft.
In his speech on the 24th, Putin said:
"Although last year, we still did not give up consultations with the United States and NATO, hoping to reach a consensus with them on the issue of stopping eastward expansion, but it was useless." In order to achieve their own goals, the Us side does not care about our interests and needs at all. ”
Prompted by the above multiple reasons, the smell of gunpowder between Russia and Ukraine is getting stronger and stronger, and war is about to break out.
03, outbreak
Lu and Don's closeness to Russia made the Ukrainian side aware of a serious threat. Ukraine and these two places have been at odds with each other before, with frequent minor frictions. On February 17, the two places clashed violently with the Ukrainian government.
On February 19, the Ukrainian government went on a crusade against Russia, arguing that russia had killed two of their soldiers with extreme cruelty for no reason.
The Russians claimed that they were killing saboteurs who had infiltrated Russia and plotted against them.
On the 24th, the Russian side decided to take military activities against the Donbass region.
Although the area is not large, the industrial output value is extremely high, and it is the most important industrial area in Ukraine. It is even argued that without Donbass, Ukraine would not be enough to be called an industrial country,
On the same day, students in Kiev, Ukraine's capital, said they heard explosions outside the windows and imposed a curfew.
Subsequently, the Russian army soon broke through the state borders of Ukraine's second largest city.
By noon, the situation in Ukraine was dire, and the government had to announce the closure of all airspace. Only when a country is experiencing a major crisis and war will it have to choose to close its airspace.
The closure of the airspace will cause panic among the citizens on the one hand, and will trigger international public opinion on the other hand, so if Ukraine is not cornered and the situation is serious, it will never close the airspace.
The fighting continued, and soon Russia destroyed ukraine's National Guard commander. The two sides did not negotiate peace, but chose to break diplomatic relations with Russia and continue the war.
Ukraine was defeated one after another, and soon the Russian army was about to break through the defenses of Kiev Oblast. At this critical moment, NATO gave Ukraine a fatal spiritual blow, nato said: there is no plan to send troops.
But western countries have strongly condemned Russia's behavior morally, and most of the Western media have tended to favor Russia as a country that breaks world peace and causes war.
In this regard, Russia said:
"We have no other way to defend the country than to take the measures that we have to take today. We are forced by the situation to take resolute action... Our action this time is not to invade Ukrainian territory, but to defend ourselves. There are those who try to provoke Ukraine behind their backs and then endanger Russia, and we are trying to repel those who are plotting against them and who have evil intentions. ”
Putin called on Ukraine's armed forces to be clear about the situation and not to be incited by radical nationalists.
On the 25th, the situation continued to escalate, and more and more important places were lost. Many places were lost, the front line was sacrificed tragically, and the Ukrainian president despaired in the chaos of the war: "The West has completely abandoned Ukraine. ”
President of Ukraine Zelenskiy
Soon, the Russian army was moving forward and had destroyed one hundred and eighteen military infrastructures.
But the Russian Foreign Ministry has always said that we do not want to start a war, we just need a buffer zone in the middle to ensure the safety of both sides. Once the Ukrainian side is willing to negotiate. We are always waiting.
On the 25th, Russia seized many weapons in Ukraine that violated the contract signed by the two sides at that time. This proves that Western countries have also violated the contract by sending weapons to Ukraine to aid in the abuse.
During the incident, the president of Ukraine called a number of countries, and the reactions of each country were very intriguing.
04, who is tricking the ghost
In Europe, the EU vowed to "believe Ukraine will win" and that they would weaken Russia economically to help Ukraine weather the current crisis.
French President Emmanuel Macron said: "I have spoken to Zelenskiy, I told him that France supports Ukraine. We are on your side.
The German chancellor said the aggression was thrilling, accusing Russia of bringing terrible disaster to Ukraine.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in the call: "You can rest assured that when you are invaded by Russia, we will not stand idly by. "Britain's heart is of the Ukrainian people in dire straits.
These countries all seem to be on the side of Ukraine. With such strong backing, why did the President of Ukraine call South Korea for help?
The reason is simple, because the support of European countries is verbal, and no party has actually supported Ukraine.
French President Macron
NATO said it had no plans to send troops for the time being.
With verbal support but no real support, Zelenskiy finally realized that both NATO and the United States had completely abandoned Ukraine.
Biden strongly condemned the Russian side and expressed deep sympathy for Ukraine. But more words pointed directly at Russia, saying that the United States has legitimate reasons to impose sanctions on Russia.
As soon as the words fell, the US sanctions against Russia were immediately implemented, but as for the support operations against Ukraine, there was no mention.
One wonders who are the beneficiaries in a war that the United States considers inhumane.
Ukraine? Russia? Obviously neither.
The war in Russia and Ukraine would trigger panic in capital markets, with the consequence that the global dollar could flow back to the United States.
Recent domestic inflation in the United States, and domestic interest rate hikes combined with the return of the dollar, can curb domestic inflation.
Second, the war in Russia and Ukraine would undermine Macron's proposal in the European Parliament that "Europe should have a dialogue with Putin on easing the situation in Russia and Ukraine."
After the attempt to ease the situation, EU countries had to say what sanctions should be taken against Russia's "possible invasion".
If the détente fails, the EU will have to stand firmly against Russia. And once they become enemies of Russia, European countries cannot do without the protection of the United States.
At this point, Europe's strategic autonomy efforts in recent years have been in vain, and the United States can continue to stabilize and control the situation in Europe.
It is a fact that the United States will benefit, and the United States has provoked Ukraine and Russia, intensifying contradictions without actual proof. Perhaps, the United States just happened to be the only beneficiary of this Ukrainian-Russian war.
After all, Biden is very sympathetic to Ukraine. Although there were no practical measures to solve the problem, he was very sympathetic and even willing to pray for Ukraine.
Finally, let me talk about China's attitude.
In the case of Western countries making clear their position and criticizing Russia, the US media first put the hat of "supporting Russia" for China.
At the press conference on the 24th, some people wanted to understand China's views on the situation in Ukraine.
Status quo in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine
The Foreign Ministry spokesman asked reporters in the metaphor of two people fighting: "What will you choose to do?" Handing a knife or persuading them to try to solve their problems? I think this principle should be very simple. ”
There are no winners under the gunshots, but there are always troublemakers trying to profit from it. Whoever delivers the knife does not forget to earn the profit of the "knife". Whoever instigates the war will profit from the fish behind his back and make the war rich.
And while we see the situation clearly, we are willing to be the person who understands the situation and reconciles from the middle, rather than the person who "hands the knife".
As the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, the Chinese Embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was bombed by NATO 20 years ago, and the United States also intended to interfere in China's internal affairs.
This is also the reason why China resolutely safeguards national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity, and resolutely upholds international fairness and justice.
As of the 26th, because the Ukrainian president still has no actual action to negotiate with Putin, and the Western countries have no actual behavior except for the long-planned economic sanctions and moral condemnation of Russia, Ukraine is still in the water.
The war is not over, and the Ukrainian government has just issued a reminder to citizens for emergency asylum.
Zelenskiy's attitude was ambiguous. On the one hand, he expressed a great willingness to negotiate with Russia and end the war at an early date. On the other hand, he postponed the date of negotiations. The latest news is that the Ukrainian government is distributing weapons to civilians in the streets.
But Russia has told Ukraine and China that their intention is always to defend themselves and hope to negotiate with Ukraine to stop the war.
Peace is not only the vision of Ukraine and Russia, but also of peace-loving people around the world.
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