Comments by "bobby hans" (@user-oc7ll9sv5r) on "Why Putin’s War in Ukraine is Unwinnable" video.
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CRIMEA BELONGS TO UKRAINE THIS WAR STARTED WITH CRIMEA AND WILL END AFTER CRIMEA IS LIBERATED AND BACK UNDER UKRAINIAN CONTROL !!
The 1994 context: a “cold war” for Crimea Crimea, populated by a mix of Ukrainians, Russians, and Crimean Tatars during the first half of the 20th century, was transferred BACK to Ukraine then former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1954.
(remember the Crimean peninsula and Ukraine was and Ukraine forcefully against its will annexed into the Russian Empire in 1783 ; So in reality Ukraine nor Crimea has ever been Russian just occupied from some time in its history by Russia )
According to official Soviet logic, this transferred BACK to Ukraine would optimize the economy and management of the peninsula because of geographical reason of closure administration as Kyiv was closer than Moscow was to Crimea . (But culturally, the Russian leadership of the USSR was trying to suppress any Ukrainian influence in Crimea).
This had been Russia’s goal since the Russian Empire annexed the peninsula in 1783. That policy continued until Ukraine’s independence in 1991.
No Ukrainian schools were in Crimea, and Russian was spoken in public institutions. Although this was a standard imperial Russian and Soviet policy, it was especially reinforced in Crimea. In the 1991 referendum after the fall of the Soviet Union , 54% of Crimean residents at the time, voted for Ukrainian independence and for Crimean peninsula to join the newly independent Ukraine .
This was far below the national average of 90%, but it still indicated a pro-Ukrainian majority on the peninsula. At the same time, the vote was influenced by the legacy of Russian colonialism: According to the 2001 census, nearly 58% of Crimean residents considered themselves Russian by ethnicity, while 24% considered themselves Ukrainian and 12% identified as Crimean Tatar. Many of the latter group, deported from Crimea by Stalin in 1944, returned to the peninsula after Ukrainian independence in 1991.
Results of the 1991 referendum on supporting Ukraine’s independence from Russia by ever region was overwhelming for all of Ukraine in all of the country without exception ; not just in western Ukriane but also in East and south and Crimea . (don't believe me google; " 1991 referendum result for Ukraine independence by region " ) the results was as high as 97 % and no lower than 54 % for independence with the different regions /" oblasts "
(Also google and see the ; Russian Federation expressly accepted Ukraine’s 1991 borders that included Crimea as being belonging to Ukraine , both in the December 1991 Belovezhskaya Pushcha accords and in the December 1994 Budapest Memorandum)
A primary source of animosity between Ukraine and Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union was the Black Sea Fleet. One of the most potent Soviet fleets, it was internationally staffed while under Russian control, contributing to the increased number of Russian settlers in Crimea. Based in the Ukrainian city of Sevastopol, the fleet had to become Ukrainian. According to the Parliament of Ukraine’s resolution, “On military formations in Ukraine,” adopted in 1991, all Soviet armed forces stationed in Ukraine formally became under parliamentary control. On 5 April 1992, then-President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk signed a decree putting those armed forces under the control of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense. Subsequently, on 7 April 1992, the then President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, issued a decree putting the Black Sea Fleet under the control of the Russian Federation. After these competing decrees, the two presidents met, agreeing to “continue negotiations.” The result: a lack of agreement and the continuation of what had become a “cold war.” between the two Russian propaganda of the two " brothers nations "
RUSSIA’S INVASION OF UKRAINE in 2014 VIOLATED INTERNATIONAL LAW:
1. The Geneva Convention. 2. Charter of the United Nations
3. The Helsinki Accords
4. The Charter of the OSCE
5. Budapest Memorandum of 1994
6. Two Russia, Ukraine friendship treaties
7. International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination
8. European Court of Human Rights
9. The 1991 Belovezhskaya Pushcha accords
THE LEGAL FACTS WHY CRIMEA BELONGS TO UKRAINE . The earlier published documents, and materials that have emerged more recently make clear that the transfer of Crimea from the RSFSR to the UkrSSR was carried out in accordance with the 1936 Soviet constitution, which in Article 18 stipulated that “the territory of a Union Republic may not be altered without its consent.” The proceedings of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium meeting indicate that both the RSFSR and the UkrSSR had given their consent via their republic parliaments. One of the officials present at the 19 February session, Otto Kuusinen, even boasted that “only in our country [the USSR] is it possible that issues of the utmost importance such as the territorial transfer of individual oblasts to a particular republic can be decided without any difficulties.” One might argue that the process in 1954 would have been a lot better if it had been complicated and difficult, but no matter how one judges the expeditiousness of the territorial reconfiguration, the main point to stress here is that it is incorrect to say (as some Russian commentators and government officials recently have) that Crimea was transferred unconstitutionally or illegally. The legal system in the Soviet Union was mostly a fiction, but the transfer did occur in accordance with the rules in effect at the time. Moreover, regardless of how the transfer was carried out, the Russian Federation expressly accepted Ukraine’s 1991 borders both in the December 1991 Belovezhskaya Pushcha accords (the agreements that precipitated and codified the dissolution of the Soviet Union) and in the December 1994 Budapest Memorandum that finalized Ukraine’s status as a non-nuclear weapons state.
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