🧵 Here you will find Maps 🗺️ to understand the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, I hope.
1. Languages spoken at Home
2. Ethnolinguistic Map
3. Map of Dialects
4. Percentage of People stating that Russian is their Mother Tongue (2001)
5. Support for Russian as an official state language
6. Proportion of users, who stated their mother tongue as Russian (blue) or as Ukrainian (red) in the social media network @vkontakte
7. Religious Divisions
8. Voting Map in 1994
Kuchma vs Kravchuk
9. 2004 Elections (First Round)
10. 2004 Elections (Second Round)
Yanukovych vs Yuschenko
11. 2004 Elections (Third Round)
12. 2006 Elections (Party of The Regions)
13. Parliamentary Elections of 2007
14. First round of Presidential elections of 2010
Legend
Blue/ Dark blue – Yanukovich
Red: Timoshenko
15. 2014 Elections - Turnout
34.76% refused to vote
16. Attitudes to United States Role in Crisis
17. Attitudes towards joining the EU
18. Summary So Far - A Divided Nation
Politically, Ethno-Linguistically,Socially
Conflict Becomes Inevitable
Ask Northern Ireland
19. Why the Division?
Eastern and Southern Ukraine (Light Green in Map) were former constituent parts of Russia that were added to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic by Soviet Communist Party leaders when Ukraine and Russia were two parts of the same country.
20. Crimea - 2 Referendums - Disputed
1994 Crimean referendum
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Crim…
2014 Crimean status referendum
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Crim…
21. Russian Point of View
22. A summary of the issues:
1. Crimea's referendum to leave Ukraine: how did we get here?
theguardian.com/world/2014/mar…
2. Crimea referendum: early results indicate 'landslide' for secession – as it happened
theguardian.com/world/2014/mar…
23. Since the disputed Crimean referendum, the Maidan Uprising in 2013 & the 2014 elections, US, CIA, UK and NATO decided to support Ukraine with military training & weapons, as discussed in another thread:
About 7 Tweets discussing mainly US training
24. Since 2014, The US has provided Ukraine with 1.6 billion $ worth of military aid. More will come.
See 12 Tweets here:
25. In Ukraine, the US Trains an Army in the West to Fight in the East (October 2017)
"For more than two years, some 300 American soldiers have been quietly helping train an enormous partner military in western Ukraine"
defenseone.com/threats/2017/1…
26. The proof is in the pudding is in the eating
President Volodymyr Zelensky announced today that the NSDC suspended all activities of 11 pro-Russian political parties while martial law is in place.
kyivindependent.com/uncategorized/…
and
pravda.com.ua/news/2022/03/2…
27. Mariupol?
Mariupol remains a Russian-speaking city
1% report regularly speaking Ukrainian at home
Lately, Western Media have reported on the plight of refugees from Mariupol being "forcibly sent to Russia"
reuters.com/world/europe/u…
28. Don't be surprised to see evidence of Mariupol Residents blaming the Ukrainian Government & in particular the Azov Battalion for their plight
Videos (of course from pro-Russian Accounts ;)
29. Compilation Thread of Interviews with Transcripts
Again a pro-Russian source so...who knows?
30. These reactions would be consistent with the views of Mariupol residents stated previously
Primary blame attribution for the Donbas war by people in Mariupol (percentages)
voxukraine.org/en/the-elephan…
Most blamed the Post-Maiden Ukrainian Government & the USA, not the Russians
31. Conclusions?
I leave that to your judgement based on the maps, statistics and data presented.
32. Funniest Reaction so far from @daniel_corcos
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