Thread by @TaranQ

🇺🇦🇷🇺🧵 Many don't know what happened in Ukraine before February 2022.
Let me help you in the next tweets (not necessarily chronological order)

1) March 18th 2014. Crimea holds a referendum in which a large majority (93+%) vote for joining Russia.
I often hear the people were forced or the military presence influenced the voting. This footage tells me the reality is quite different.

2) April 27th, 2014. Lugansk declared being a sovereign state.
Always keep in mind these people were born and raised there, in the "old" Russia. They didn't ask to become part of Ukraine. They have a Russian culture and traditions, what's wrong with that?
Part 1

3) Lugansk People's Republic declare state sovereignty. I see lots of joyful people with Russian flags. These are ordinary people just wanting to live their lives and be able to speak their own language.
Would you agree if your government would force you to use another language?

4) April 13th. 2014. Oleksandr Turchynov launches the "anti terrorist operation" against the "separatists" as they are conveniently called. Do these people look like terrorists? Even the ordinary military clearly had problems fulfilling their tasks.

5) From that moment the people of the Donbass were declared enemies. Let's look at what they thought of it. Keep remembering this was long before February 2022! For 8 long years these people have been subjected to the Kiev regime terror.

6) Ordinary people that saw their lives being ruined. Their cities being destroyed. Till the point they don't know how to continue. Is this a democracy?

7) The WW2 Saur Mogila monument in southern Donetsk was destroyed by uitslapen Ukrainian military in September 2014. This lady was born in a camp in Germany during American bombardments is furious about the Ukrainian fascists.

8) On April 25th. 2019, after several attempts the Ukrainian Verchovna Rada finally managed to ban the Russian language, the law says that the only language that can be used in all spheres of life is the Ukrainian language.

9) May 2nd 2014, Odessa. Angry crowd attacks peaceful protesters outside the union building. The crowd set the building on fire after the protesters flee inside.

10) Odessa. The ones trying to escape the fire or jump out the windows are being shot at or beaten to death.
No investigation has ever been conducted and nobody was held responsible or brought to justice.

11) May 11th, Donetsk People's Republic declares independence.

12) May 9th, 2014 Mariupol. Extreme right Azov battalion sets fire to a police station. More than 100 people die. Part 1

13) Part 2. Petro Symonenko speaks the truth in the Parlament but he is being blocked by interim president Oleksandr Turchynov.

14) June 2nd 2014. Ukrainian planes bomb the Lugansk city centre were civilians are totally caught by surprise. I left the extremely gore part out...
But exactly that shows what the Kiev regime is capable of. This was a deliberate attack on ordinary civilians.

15) Of the president of your country would address you in this way. Would you accept or resist? We are that the people of Crimea understood very quickly this was not their government. I don't think these people needed any force to vote for joining Russia.

16) Poroschenko didn't pay pensions to the "separatists". Who came to their rescue? The "evil" Putin.

17) Though the story in West was that Putin had annexed Crimea and would suppress all minorities there, what they didn't report is that Putin enacted a law that rehabilitated all minorities ever deported from Crimea, the have all the rights and right of compensation.

18) Want to know more? Watch the 2 documentaries were these fragments were taken from :
A) live and die in Donbass

B) Ukrainian agony - The concealed war 2015
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Of = If 🙄

19) I have to add the way Ukrainian citizens treat each other in this wonderful democracy.
Not taking sides is enough to get wrapped onto a lamppost.
Watch the full 13 min compilation
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I have to get more info the habit of checking my tweets before sending them. 🙄. So forget about the "uitslapen" word loll

Again I should read my tweets before sending them 🙄. The "We are that" part should not have been part of this tweet. Sh... Happens when you're in a hurry and have lots of stuff at your hands

20) If people tell you the Russians are murderous bastards. Show them this thread, which paints a very different picture.

Partial compilation:

https://twitter.com/TaranQ/status/1513390785466712066

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21) Poroschenko recently admitted they never wanted to commit to the Minsk agreements. They were just meant to buy time to prepare for the war.

https://twitter.com/TaranQ/status/1538242014927589376

22) Even mainstream media television (German WDR) reported back in 2014 that Ukrainian troops were shelling civilians and that we as Europe should not accept this.

23)

https://twitter.com/TaranQ/status/1577645243809370114

24) Ukraine Crisis - What You're Not Being Told (2016)
Source and full video :

25) Mariupol 2014.
Do you think this war started in February 2022?

26) Let's not forget the promise the West made to Russia not to move NATO one inch further to the east, after Gorbatsjov decided to give back the occupied part to Germany for reunification. A very nice gesture.
And what did the West do? Break their promise after only 6 years.

For the full clip watch Part 3 of my documentary
Let's look at the victims of the war that didn't start in 2022 (Suffering of Donbass)
At Timecode : 01:01:03
Airstrike Lugansk City centre

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The full clip in my documentary
odysee.com/@BacktoBasics:…

🇷🇺🇺🇦🧵 Also take a look at my extensive thread:
Ukraine - Russia war explained

https://twitter.com/TaranQ/status/1600977810167779328

🇷🇺🇺🇦🧵 Here's a collection of my most relevant / important threads / tweets explaining the Russia - Ukraine war. All in one spot for easy RT.

https://twitter.com/TaranQ/status/1611027627732606978

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇩🇪🧵 I want to add a German news edition (Tagesthemen) from 2014 reporting on Ukraine. Back then MSM still did some independent and critical reporting.
Strange how they all suddenly seemed to have change their minds.
Original speed version ;⁠-⁠) :
odysee.com/@BacktoBasics:…

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸🧵 Oleg Anatolyevich Tsaryov in Ukrainian Parlament, predicting the war and U.S. involvement - November 2013

November 2013, days before the EuroMaidan protests started. A deputy denounces in the Ukrainian Parliament that the United States is preparing a civil war in Ukraine, and that alleged "NGOs" are organising a coup from inside the US Embassy in Kiev.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🧵 Forbes 2015 : One Year After Russia Annexed Crimea, Locals Prefer Moscow To Kiev.
forbes.com/sites/kenrapoz…

🇷🇺🇺🇦🧵 Let me also show you the real reason for the Russian intervention in Ukraine, that goes back to 2014.
So you can see that it certainly wasn't just an unprovoked attack.
Attention ‼️ Graphic images in the document ‼️
lafionda.com/wp-content/upl…

🇷🇺🇺🇦🧵 I also want to point to some other interesting threads to put the Russia - Ukraine war in the right context. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
A collection of my most relevant / important threads / tweets explaining the Russia - Ukraine war. All in one spot for easy RT.

https://twitter.com/TaranQ/status/1611027627732606978

Fragments from the first tweets in this thread are from the recommended‼️ documentaries:
Live and die in Donbass:

Ukrainian Agony - (Der verschwiegene Krieg):
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🇷🇺🇺🇦🧵Large pro-Russia rally in Bakhmut (then and now Artyomovsk), March 1, 2014. The people were demanding a referendum, after the Kiev government was "Nulandized",(referring) to Victoria Nuland.
They refused to accept the illegitimate US puppet regime and the degradation of their basic human and democratic rights.

A feature of ultranationalist, quasi-fascist ideology is the persecution of ethnic minority "racial impurities". Not long after this rally, the people of the city were brutally suppressed by the illegitimate US Maidanist regime.

Caption for the video reads:
1.3.2014. Large pro-Russian rally in Artyomovsk, 2014

@CheburekiMan

🇷🇺🇺🇦🧵 Back in 2014 Ukrainian soldiers were shooting into the homes of civilians in East Ukraine.
Their mission was to spread terror and crush any dissent against the CIA backed coup in Kiev.

This is something the Western mainstream media should be telling you.

But they won't....

Source: @ricwe123

🇺🇦🧵 Crimea 1992 are demanding a referendum to join Russia.

- thecoppermountain

🇷🇺🇺🇦🧵 What has Ukrainian aggression done to Donbass?

'They target civilians, not so much military targets. And that is pure terror'. Blogger from Netherlands Ronald van Amerongen witnessed the Donbass conflict for himself.

According to him, Ukrainian aggression brought to the people of Donbass death, injury and the destruction of homes. Watch about the victims of the conflict, people who have suffered at the hands of Ukrainian war criminals, in our video.

- Military Wave

🇷🇺🇺🇦🧵 Exactly nine years ago, Alexander Zakharchenko (at that time the head of state and Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic) invited president Petro Poroshenko (at that time they president of Ukraine) to Donetsk to pick up the flag left behind at the airport by the Ukrainian Nazi battalions:

- “We removed this flag from Donetsk airport. If they come to us with the same thing, the fate of those boys is sad: almost all of them will die.”

- Juan Sinmiedo

It seems Zakharchenko's prediction was right...

https://twitter.com/TaranQ/status/1759634430946095428?t=MCx4gTJKGMKQen84Ro78Nw&s=19