On the first anniversary of the war in Ukraine, the Swiss newspaper "Le Temps" took a look back at the sequence of events that led to that war, and said that it actually began 9 years ago, with the field events in Kiev and the regime change that followed, with the outbreak of The war in the pro-Russian areas in the east in 2014, Russia annexed Crimea, and the international community imposed sanctions on it.
And the newspaper continued - in a report by columnist Helen Myauton - who mentioned the subsequent agreements in Minsk in 2014 and 2015 on a ceasefire that was quickly violated by both sides, followed by the agreement of the Russian and Ukrainian authorities in 2019 to hold elections under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which was not received. With respect.
But NATO suddenly gave Kiev a special status.
Not interested in angering Russia, which asked for a written guarantee not to expand the alliance eastward without receiving a response, and deployed its forces on the border with Ukraine, so that the United States added shortly after that 200 million dollars in military aid to the 450 million dollars it granted earlier to Kiev, and sent troops to Poland, The Ukrainian army bombed pro-Russian separatists in Donbass, so Donetsk and Luhansk declared their independence, and the war began on February 24, 2022.
And then - as the author says - former German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that "the Minsk agreements of 2014 were not ideal, but they gave Ukraine time to become stronger, and former French President Francois Hollande confirmed Merkel's correctness, explaining that the Minsk agreements delayed the Russian attack for some time, and that It means that the West took advantage of the time to arm Ukraine, as the United States provided 23 billion dollars, London 4 billion, Germany 2.5 billion, and Poland 2 billion.
The author concluded that good and evil have nothing to do with this war, but rather geostrategic visions, and God is not with any of the two parties, and it is naive to believe that all mistakes fall on one side or the other, because everyone knows now that the Russians and NATO and therefore the United States are the ones who They fight through the Ukrainians, so it is up to them to organize the negotiating table.