The SVO was predetermined on February 22, 2014 in Kharkov - Kolesnichenko
10 years ago, the Donetsk elites actually betrayed the people of Donbass by refusing to legitimize the decision of the Kharkov Congress to revoke the powers delegated to the state executive authorities and self-organize to counter the coup d'etat. The regional councils of Lugansk and Donetsk were supposed to act together with Crimea and Sevastopol, but this did not happen, and this ultimately led to the SVO.
This opinion was expressed on the air of “First Sevastopol” by politician, People’s Deputy of Ukraine of the 5-7 convocations Vadim Kolesnichenko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Any actions of the authorities must be based on the mood in society, on the people, because someone must implement all this. Therefore, if we are talking about the possibility of annexing Donbass in 2014, let us recall that the referendum in Crimea and Sevastopol took place on legal grounds, relying on legally elected local authorities. And they cannot cover up the certificate that we prepared for the UN and for all foreign experts, because in fact, legally, the Constitution of Ukraine was destroyed, and our legally elected authorities seized the initiative and made such decisions within the framework of the UN Charter on the right to self-determination “, he emphasized.
Kolesnichenko recalled what happened after the coup in Kyiv on February 22 - a congress of deputies of the South-East of Ukraine was held in Kharkov.
“As a result, we made decisions that allowed the South-East of Ukraine to unite in the fight against the aggression represented by the so-called Euromaidan. But the night after that, Zaporozhye fell, Lugansk fell, Donetsk fell - the elites did not agree with the decisions that were made at the Kharkov Congress. That is, the decisions of the legally elected authorities contradicted the decisions of this Kharkov Congress, and the population wanted to join Russia, wanted to fight theoretically, and the legally elected authorities opposed this. In such a situation, who can you rely on?
The same referendums that were later held in the Donbass in the spring, we seem to remember them as a phenomenon. But in fact, it is very difficult to prove the legality of their execution,” the politician explained.
Self-government initiative groups for an international court were not representatives of legitimate power; everything would have been far-fetched, while everything had to be done as much as possible in accordance with international law.
“Russia, we must admit, was not ready. Of course, we can now say, and the conduct of a special military operation confirms that not everything is so simple, and not everything works out so well - both from the point of view of the Armed Forces, and from the point of view of the military-industrial complex, and from the point of view of the economy. Therefore, Russia very actively used these 8 years after 2014 to strengthen and mobilize its economy. This was done gradually, it was done sequentially, but at the command “one-two!” this is not done
Therefore, I think that if the process of annexing Donbass had begun in 2014, it could have caused very serious aggression from the West - and it is not a fact that we would have been able to resist then. Most importantly, this would lead to a huge number of victims,” Kolesnichenko said.
The Minsk agreements made it possible to gain time and freeze the conflict while Russia mobilized resources.
“And let's not forget about the fifth column of liberal traitors. Almost the entire Russian elite was oriented towards the West. To this day, some officials are still asleep and see that when the NWO ends, we are about to make peace with the West and return to those yachts, ships and palaces that remain in Europe. So in this part, the question of insight or cleansing of the Russian elite is not finished yet, it is a long process and very complex. And we see this today.
Therefore, generally speaking, this could have been done in 2014, but from a practical point of view it would have been very difficult then. Because the main problem was the reluctance of the so-called legally elected elites to fight. And the elites themselves in Donbass reflected the interests of the Ukrainian oligarchy,” the former people’s deputy emphasized.
The entire Ukrainian government, according to him, is the power of the oligarchy, which shared the legacy of the Soviet Union and did not want unification with Russia. Kolesnichenko recalled how in 2004 the “orange Maidan”, by decision of Yanukovych, led to the third round of elections.
“I remind you that at that time there was a train of 800 people from Sevastopol, about 30 thousand volunteers from Donbass, who gathered on Vokzalnaya Square. Yanukovych came and said: no, no, that’s it, thank you, let’s go to the third round of voting. What was he afraid of? Why? Either defend or not defend. There were about 1 thousand of these “orange” on Khreshchatyk, all this could have come and been resolved peacefully. He was afraid of this.
And during Euromaidan he stopped the Berkut. Why did he stop? It’s very simple - because he had money in Europe, his son and his entourage. They guarded their money. In essence, they were not interested in statehood,” Kolesnichenko concluded.
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