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The United States and its allies left Russia with no option to confront threats to its national security but to announce a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, after the West rejected its initiative for security guarantees that stipulate that NATO not expand eastward and that the countries of the former Soviet Union not join the alliance, including Ukraine and not to establish NATO military bases there.
Since 2014, Ukraine has witnessed an acute political-military crisis that erupted after the change of power in Kiev, following widespread demonstrations with the support of the West and the intense participation of Ukrainian forces and neo-Nazi brigades that began their attacks and abuses against the Russian-speaking population of the Donbass region.
• May 11, 2014 - Most of the population of the Donbass region voted in a referendum in favor of secession from Ukraine. The next day, the establishment of the Donetsk and Lugansk
People's Republics was announced. Ukraine refused to recognize the new reality and escalated its attacks on the citizens of the two republics.
• September 5, 2014 - the signing of the ceasefire protocol in eastern Ukraine between the Kiev authorities and representatives of Luhansk and Donetsk under the auspices of Russia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and it has been repeatedly violated by the Kiev authorities.
• September 19, 2014 - the signing of the first Minsk agreement between Kiev and representatives of Luhansk and Donetsk under the auspices of Russia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and stipulated the consolidation of the ceasefire protocol.
• February 15, 2015 - the signing of the Second Minsk Agreement between the two parties to the conflict under the auspices of the Norman Quartet (Russia - Ukraine - France - Germany), which stipulated the necessity of strict implementation of the protocol and the first agreement.
• February 17, 2015 - The UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2202 supporting the agreement.
• Ukraine did not abide by the Minsk agreements and the West did not push it to implement them. Rather, it found in the agreements an opportunity to enhance Kiev's military capabilities in preparation for confronting Russia.
• April 2019 - Kiev considers the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk "scum" • March 2020 - Prohibition of education in the Russian language in Donbass schools
• July 1, 2021 - The Ukrainian Parliament approved the "Indigenous Peoples" law, excluding the Russian language.
• Ukrainian forces and neo-Nazis killed between 2014 and 2021 more than 13,000 Russian speakers in the Donbass region, and the West covered up their crimes and worked to fuel
hatred against Russia.
• February 21, 2022 - Russian President Vladimir Putin signed two decrees stipulating Russia's recognition of the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics from Ukraine.
• Putin in a speech to the Russian people after signing the two decrees: the 4 million residents of the Donbass region are subject to genocide, because of their rejection of the Western-backed coup against the legitimate authority in Ukraine in 2014. • February 22, 2022 - Putin signed a federal law ratifying the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between Russia and my
republic Luhansk and Donetsk peoples.
• The treaty stipulates that the Russian armed forces will carry out the tasks of ensuring peace in the territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics in response to the requests of their presidents.
• February 22, 2022 - US President Joe Biden announces the imposition of US and European sanctions on Russia, after its recognition of the independence of Donetsk and Lugansk, and the West followed that up with 8 packages of sanctions, with the aim of isolating Russia from the global financial system, reducing the profitability of its energy sector, and limiting its military capabilities.
• February 24, 2022 - Putin announced the launch of a special military operation in Ukraine aimed at protecting the population of Donbass who have been subjected to genocide by the Kiev authorities for 8 years, as well as disarming Ukraine and eradicating neo-Nazism.
• From February 28 to March 21, 2022 - 5 rounds of negotiations were held between Russia and Ukraine to resolve the crisis peacefully, all of which failed due to the intransigence of the Ukrainian president and his rejection of Russia's proposals at the instigation of the West, which fabricated the crisis to implement its destructive agendas and continue its domination of the world.
• March 2, 2022 - Russian forces completely liberate the strategic city of Kherson.
• March 4, 2022 - the liberation of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant is part of the goals of the Russian operation to strip energy sources from the hands of the neo-Nazis.
• May 20, 2022 - the liberation of the city of Mariupol on the shores of the Sea of Azov and the breaking of the fortifications of the Nazi Azov Brigades, which used civilians as human shields.
• July 3, 2022 - Russia announces the complete liberation of the Luhansk People's Republic.
• September 23, 2022 - The overwhelming majority of residents of the Lugansk and Donetsk republics, and the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions, vote in a special referendum on joining Russia.
• September 30, 2022 - Putin and the leaders of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhia sign agreements to join Russia.
• December 13, 2022 - the liberation of more than 60 percent of the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.
• January 21, 2023 - the liberation of strategic areas in Zaporizhia and Donetsk.
• January 30, 2023 - Russian Defense: Our military operation succeeded in stopping the implementation of illegal US military biological programs in Ukraine and prompted some countries to recalculate with Washington on biological security.
• February 5, 2023 - the liberation of important sites in the Donetsk axis from the Ukrainian forces.
• February 20, 2023 - US President Joe Biden visited Kiev and pledged to Zelensky to hand over military equipment including artillery ammunition, anti-tank systems and air surveillance radars worth $500 million to Kiev, in addition to the $40.4 billion previously provided by Washington, making it the largest military supporter of Kiev.
• February 21, 2023 - Putin before the Russian Federal Assembly: The West is using Ukraine as a front to turn the conflict into a global war and it is impossible to defeat Russia on the battlefield, announcing the suspension of his country's participation in the Strategic Offensive Weapons Treaty "START" as a result of Washington's non-compliance with it.
Despite the West pumping $151 billion to support Ukraine and continuing to provide it with the latest weapons and equipment, and NATO’s declaration that it seeks to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia, President Vladimir Putin has confirmed more than once that victory will be Russia’s ally in its military operation aimed at protecting its national security and removing the threat of NATO and neo-Nazis from Russia. its limits.
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