The US and NATO masterminded, engineered and openly funded from the US embassy in Kyiv the Maidan protests in 2013 and the bloody coup d’etat against the pro-Russian government in 2014 in order to bring to power the Russian-hating Bandera-type fascists (the National Socialists of Ukraine), the political descendants of Nazis, and a new breed of Zionist fascists, all servile to the US and West European monopoly capitalism and the NATO. Thus was institutionalized a Russophobic and neo-fascist regime in Ukraine in 2014.
Russian President Vladimir Putin laid out his version of Ukraine s history, saying essentially that Ukraine was always part of Russia. While that serves his purpose, it is also a fiction.
Germany halted the Nord Stream 2 pipeline after Putin declared regions of Ukraine independent republics and pressure mounts for President Biden to get tougher on Russia.
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