As sons of the Soviet Union, why do Russia and Ukraine frequently use force, and what are their grievances?
06, Chernobyl nuclear leak, the Soviet Union's mistakes made Ukraine pay
On April 26, 1986, the Fourth Reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine exploded, triggering a series of explosions that ignited fires and emitted large amounts of high-energy radioactive material into the atmosphere, covering a large area and dominating Ukraine.
The accident killed 31 people on the spot, 200 people were severely exposed to radioactive radiation, and in the next 15 years, 70,000 people died and 134,000 people suffered from various degrees of radiation disease, mainly Ukrainians.
The most important thing is that after the explosion, it did not get the attention of the Soviet authorities, and a week after the accident, after the radiation cloud drifted to Sweden, Moscow received a complaint from the Swedish government, and the Soviet Union at this time understood that the matter was far more serious than they thought. The slow official response of the Soviet Union was also one of the important reasons for the expansion of the accident.
07. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the question of the ownership of Cromia caused differences between Soviet Russia and Russia
In 1954, in order to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the alliance between Russia and Ukraine, Soviet leader Khrushchev decided to assign Kromia, which originally belonged to Russia, to Ukraine, which was no problem at the time, but after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the question of Cromia's ownership became the biggest contradiction and difference between Ukraine and Russia.
In January 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation congress passed a resolution calling for the reconsideration of the issue of The ownership of Croatia, and in May of the same year, Russia unilaterally declared that the 1954 resolution on the transfer of Croatia to Ukraine no longer had legal effect, and asked Ukraine and Croatia to hold tripartite talks, but Ukraine fought back and declared the decision of the Russian parliament null and void.
In May 1997, when Russia and Ukraine formally signed the Russian-Ukrainian Treaty of Friendship and Russia confirmed that the Croatian Peninsula belonged to Ukraine, tensions between the two sides were eased.
On March 16, 2014, with Russia's intervention, Cromia held a referendum, 96% of the population agreed that Cromia would join Russia, and on March 17, Cromia declared itself an independent sovereign state and joined Russia as a new federal subject. This incident has led to a further deterioration in Ukraine's relations with Russia.
Although the area of Cromia is only 26,000 square kilometers, it is bordered by the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, the strategic location is very important, if Russia deploys military equipment in Croatia, its strike capability can not only cover the entire Black Sea, but also cover part of Western Europe, led by the United States, Germany, France and other Western countries NATO, said that it did not recognize the referendum result.
08, Ukraine showed goodwill to NATO, Putin responded strongly
After Ukraine separated from the Soviet Union, because of the historical contradictions with Russia and Russia's position in the world at that time, Ukraine began to make overtures to NATO headed by the United States, and thought of joining NATO, and then with the help of NATO powers, to achieve the purpose of self-improvement and arrogance. But this is just Ukraine's wishful thinking, NATO just wants to balance Russia through Ukraine, and will not really help Ukraine at all. The most crucial thing is that after Putin took office in 2000, Putin directly told NATO that as long as NATO takes over Ukraine, Russia will go to war at all costs, even if it uses nuclear weapons.
09. The root cause of the Donbass dispute is actually the game between NATO and Russia
In February 2014, when Kromia's independence was imminent, pro-Russian people in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of The Donbass region of Udong also occupied government buildings and raised the Russian flag, and they tried to be like Cromia through a referendum or into the arms of Russia.
For Ukraine, the Donbass conflict can only be regarded as civil unrest, and it is understandable to deal with this problem on its own, but the civilian armed forces in the Donbass region, with the support of Russia, Ukraine is simply unable to confront it. After March 11, 2021, Under the banner of recovering territory, Ukraine has massively increased its troops in the Donbass region, resulting in an even more tense situation in Eastern Ukraine, which is not unrelated to the solidarity and solidarity of the UNITED-led NATO, and it can be said that NATO is the main promoter and planner of the tension in Eastern Ukraine.
Summary: Peaceful development is the last word
Ukrainian President Zelenskiy is well aware that the Ukrainian army is definitely not a rival to a powerful Russia, and without nato's support, the Russian army will only need three days to finish work in the Donbass region and return home. Now the situation in Ukraine is very embarrassing, 300,000 Ukrainian troops have gone to the front line in Donbass, but NATO and other countries led by the United States have only conducted a series of military exercises around Russia, and there are no substantive reinforcement measures at all, and even US President Biden does not talk to Zelensky on the phone. Putin bluntly warned that if NATO enters the war in the Donbass region, Russia will join the war at all costs.
NATO's purpose is very simple, they do not want to go to war with Russia at all, the United States is even more impossible to go to war for Ukraine and Russia, they just want to curb Russia's development through the chaotic situation in Ukraine, for NATO, Wudong chaos and no war, perhaps it is the ideal state that the UNITED-led NATO wants most.
For Ukraine and Russia, seeking a peaceful environment for development is the most important thing, and I hope that the war will subside as soon as possible and the situation in Eastern Ukraine will be stabilized at an early date.
