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by ceejayoz 875 days ago
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-offered-end-war-if-ukraine-d...

Doesn't sound like much sabotaging was necessary.

> Arakhamia said changing Ukraine's intentions to join NATO would require an amendment to the country's constitution since Kyiv's parliament voted to adopt an amendment in February 2019 that stated Ukraine's goal of becoming a member of both NATO and the European Union. Arakhamia also said that Ukrainian officials did not trust Russia to uphold their end of the bargain.

Russia was, after all, promising not to invade Ukraine just weeks before they went ahead and did exactly that. Trust in Russian promises a few weeks later was justifiably... not high.

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/10/1071766987/u-s-russia-dicuss-...

> Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov emerged from the nearly eight hours of talks and declared, "There are no plans or intentions to attack Ukraine." He went on to say, "There is no reason to fear some kind of escalatory scenario."