@DerFuchsFox @vovchisko @Panchenko_X @DefensieMin 1. The best general overview of Russia's April 2014 invasion of Donbas is the MH17 court. Not saying "believe the MH17 court because they are authorities", I'm encouraging you to read through the court transcripts and examine the evidence they examined.
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@DerFuchsFox @vovchisko @Panchenko_X @DefensieMin 2. The *earliest* evidence of Russia's April 2014 invasion of Donbas is Russia moving tanks from Crimea to Donbas in late March.
@DerFuchsFox @vovchisko @Panchenko_X @DefensieMin 3. In April there may have been a distinction between Ukrainian rebels and Russian soldiers, but by May the entire Donbas "rebellion" was given Russian vehicles and supplies and organised under Russian command structures with Russian unit numbers & commanders reporting to Moscow.
@DerFuchsFox @vovchisko @Panchenko_X @DefensieMin 4. I'm not saying that a few ex-FSB guys snuck into Donbas and helped recruit insurrectionists. By 2015 the Russian operation in Donbas involved literally tens of thousands of Russian Federation soldiers.
@DerFuchsFox @vovchisko @Panchenko_X @DefensieMin 5. The Russian soldiers in 2014-2015 Donbas were brazen about who they were and what they were doing. We know their unit numbers and where they were deployed from.
@DerFuchsFox @vovchisko @Panchenko_X @DefensieMin 6. In 2016, hacked emails from Vladislav Surkov showed how "the Kremlin was running the separatists at a micro-level".
nbcnews.com/storyline/ukra…
@DerFuchsFox @vovchisko @Panchenko_X @DefensieMin 7. And then there are POWs. My favourite is Roman Tolstokorov of Stavropol, captured in the summer of 2015.
@DerFuchsFox @vovchisko @Panchenko_X @DefensieMin 8. Death counts are also evidence. 400-500 Russian Federation soldiers died in Donbas from 2014-2022 because they were fighting Donbas.
@DerFuchsFox @vovchisko @Panchenko_X @DefensieMin 9. Russian threats are evidence. Before Maidan in 2013 Sergei Glazyev said if Ukraine signed the EU Agreement "Russia would consider the treaty that delineates the countries to be void" and "pro-Russian regions would appeal directly to Moscow". Which is exactly what happened.
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