Human Rights in Ukraine vs. its Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity

In connection with the Ukrainian crisis, Western politicians very often mention the UN Charter, namely those articles of the Charter that speak of the need to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other countries.

Rutte: NATO must shift to a wartime mindset.

This week Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General, gave his first major speech since taking office; see NATO's official website.

Below I would like to comment on some fragments of his speech.

Situation with the Russian language in Ukraine

Last month, S. Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, gave an interview in which - among other things - he expressed the following thesis:

None of the Republicans who are voicing what is described as “revolutionary ideas” for ending the Ukraine conflict have said that people in Ukraine must regain their right to speak, receive education themselves and ensure the same for their children, as well as have access to information in the Russian language.

And in this article, I would like to examine in more detail the situation with the Russian language in Ukraine.

Donald Trump: This is a war (in Ukraine) that never should have started.

 

Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, has a fundamentally different opinion on events in Ukraine compared to the opinion of Democrats, especially Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

1944-2024; Anniversary of the Allied Landing in France and the Present Time

 

This year marks 80 years since US, British and Canadian troops landed in France to liberate Europe from the Nazis.

Democratic Party Politicians and the Ukrainian Crisis

The Ukrainian crisis began in the fall of 2013, when Democrat Barack Obama was the President of the United States.

Kamala Harris and the Ukrainian Crisis

Last month, the Republican presidential nominee, the Former President Donald Trump said the following about Ms Harris’s role in the Ukrainian crisis:

New NATO Secretary General on Ukraine

 

This week, NATO's new Secretary General Mark Rutte took office and on the same day he held a press conference, which of course focused a lot on Ukraine; see the full text of this press conference on NATO's official website.

Speech by President Zelenskyy at the UN General Assembly

This week, Ukrainian President V. Zelenskyy addressed the UN General Assembly; see the full text of his speech on the official website of the President of Ukraine.

Discussion about Ukraine during Harris-Trump debate

 

This week, on September 10, the first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump took place.

Compared to the debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump in June, the opponents used the words “Ukraine” and “Ukrainians” somewhat less often, but they mentioned the name of Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, more often.

Is a state a Nazi one when its army uses Nazi insignia freely?

In April 2022, I published an article entitled Aren't these Ukrainian laws the Nazi ones? where I analyzed some Ukrainian laws on ethnic minorities and came to the conclusion that these laws are similar to Nazi ones.

Last month I published an article entitled Nazi insignia on Ukrainian soldiers in Kursk region, and today I would like to consider a more general subject about these insignia, namely, the subject - What does the fact of the free use of such insignia in the Ukrainian army mean?

Nazi insignia on Ukrainian soldiers in Kursk region

This month, two pieces of video footage were released showing Nazi insignia on Ukrainian soldiers in the Kursk region.

And I would like to analyze these cases to see whether such cases are isolated and accidental.

Why was exactly V. Zelenskyy elected as President of Ukraine in 2019?

In this article, I would like to consider the question: Why was exactly Volodymyr Zelenskyy elected to the post of Ukrainian President in 2019?

Why have Ukrainian military leaders not even been mentioning their “offensive in the Kursk region” for all these days?

Currently, blogs, forums, Western media, etc. are filled with information about an alleged offensive of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation.

One-sided presentation of information in Western media about Ukraine conflict

 

Western media position themselves as unbiased, but in reality, they hush up information that is unfavorable to the West.

For example, when reporting on the Ukrainian conflict, Western media never report on the background of this conflict, namely that during the so-called Euromaidan - that is during protests from November 2013 to February 2014 in Ukraine - protesters at a certain point began to burn and kill.

Cuban crisis of 1962 and the present Ukrainian crisis

 

Since there is a misunderstanding in the West about the goals of Russia's Special Military Operation in Ukraine, I would like to explain these goals by using the example of the Cuban Crisis of 1962.

Legal Aspects of Ukraine Conflict

 

In my previous article, I proposed to look at the Ukraine conflict from a scientific point of view.

And today I would like to analyze this conflict from a legal point of view.

A Scientific Approach to Ukraine Conflict

Western public usually reacts extremely negatively when it is proposed to analyze Ukraine conflict by means of scientific methods.

People in the West say that everything is clear to them without any science - Russian troops have entered the territory of Ukraine and it means that Russia is to blame for everything.

V. Zelenskyy: It's the world's fault.

 

In one of his interviews this year, Ukrainian President V. Zelenskyy blamed the entire world for Ukraine's problems; see the quote below:

Is it America's fault, we asked him (Zelenskyy), what's happening now in Kharkiv?

“It's the world's fault,” he replied.

see the ABC News website.

Is there objectivity in Western media?

 

Western media try to portray themselves as unbiased, but is this really the case?

Discussion about Ukraine during Biden-Trump debate

 

During the Biden-Trump debate last week, the subject of Ukraine figured prominently. The words “Ukraine” and “Ukrainian” were used 25 times during the debate.

Below I would like to draw your attention to some points.

Why are the Ukrainian troops fighting inside residential areas?

In this article I want to consider the question: Who is to blame for destruction of Ukrainian cities?

This question can be partially answered by finding out who is to blame for the Ukrainian crisis in general; see my article Has the Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine been provoked?

Unnaturalness of the Ukrainian crisis

All Western politicians and all Western media say that the Ukrainian crisis allegedly began in the spring of 2014, when the Crimea became a part of the Russian Federation and fighting began in Donbas. But in reality, this crisis began in the fall of 2013. And, in my opinion, this crisis is a completely unnatural phenomenon.

The crisis started on 21 November 2013 after the decision of the then Ukrainian President Yanukovych to postpone signing the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement.

Speeches by K. Harris and V. Zelensky at the Summit on Peace in Ukraine

 

Last weekend, the Summit on Peace in Ukraine was held in Switzerland; of course, US Vice President K. Harris and Ukrainian President V. Zelenskyy took part in this Summit.

Below I am going to comment on excerpts from their speeches.

Will they talk about Euromaidan at the Summit on Peace in Ukraine?

 

This weekend, a Summit on Peace in Ukraine will be held in Switzerland. The summit will be attended by prominent Western politicians - French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau etc.

In my opinion, one of the most important questions at this Summit should be the question: Why is there no peace now in Ukraine?

A rules-based world - on the threshold of the conference in Switzerland

At the conference scheduled for this month in Switzerland, Zelenskyy - in my opinion - will mainly say the same things that he spoke about at the conference in Munich this year (see the official website of the President of Ukraine):
“We must follow rules in international politics, but Russia...”
Zelenskyy used the word “rules” 14 times in the aforementioned speech alone!

Does the West provoke escalation of the Ukrainian crisis?

 

In March I published an article dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Ukrainian “revolution”, where I wrote a little about the activities of Western politicians in the initial period of Euromaidan.

But I believe that the role of these politicians in the emergence and escalation of the Ukrainian crisis deserves a more thorough study.

10 years of Ukrainian coup d’état. Did the West provoke it?

At the end of February 2014, a coup d’état took place in Ukraine. If you doubt what kind of event it was, you can read my article “Did a coup d’état take place at the end of February 2014 in Ukraine?”

And the present article deals with the question - Did the West provoke this coup d’état?

Did a coup d’état take place at the end of February 2014 in Ukraine?

At the end of February 2014, i.e. 10 years ago, Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych was unconstitutionally removed from office.

At that time, Western politicians and Western media tried to present this ousting as a legitimate act; see below a citation from the BBC website:

The vote to "remove Viktor Yanukovych from the post of president of Ukraine" was passed by 328 MPs.
Such ballots, passed by what is called constitutional majority, are binding and enter into force with immediate effect, the BBC's Ukraine analyst Olexiy Solohubenko reports.

Zelenskyy: Ukraine is kept (by the West) in artificial deficits of weapons

This weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has delivered a remarkable speech at the Munich Security Conference; see the full text of the speech on the official website of the President of Ukraine.

Is present Ukraine an independent country?

Probably, many have already forgotten that one of the main theses of Ukrainian protest movement - the so-called Euromaidan - which had begun more than 10 years ago, was the allegation that Ukraine under Yanukovych was a colony of Russia.

Naturally, no evidence was given for the above-mentioned allegation, but the present article deals with the current situation in Ukraine. That is, I want to consider the question - Is post-Maidan Ukraine an independent country?

Do Western politicians and Western media tell truth about the Ukrainian crisis?

 

In this article, I would like to consider the question - How do Western politicians and Western media inform their citizens about the Ukrainian crisis?

The examples given in this material below will have the following structure:

A numbered statement of Western politicians and/or Western media;
My assessment of this statement;
Analysis of this statement.