| >Leading immediately to Russia invading Georgia in 2008 Encouraging Saakashvili to resolve Georgia's territorial issues by taking over breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. And then Russian intervened. [0] >who had no active efforts on either the Ukraine or NATO side toward NATO membership The efforts were quite active during pro-Western president's rule and were halted by pro-Ukrainian president. >Ukraine threw out the Russia-aligned government No, Yanukovich was thrown out by pro-Western coup 'mid-wifed' by the US. [1] "The night before the clashes, Right Sector called on all of its members to ready themselves for a "peace offensive" on 18 February. <...> That morning, around 20,000 demonstrators marched on the parliament building as that body was set to consider opposition demands for a new constitution and government. Around 09:45, the demonstrators broke through the police barricade of several personnel-transport trucks near the building of the Central Officers' Club of Ukraine and pushed the cordon of police aside. The clashes started after some two dozen demonstrators moved a police vehicle blocking their path to parliament." [2] Right Sector is "the right-wing, paramilitary confederation of several ultranationalist organizations" [3] [0] https://www.reuters.com/article/world/georgia-started-war-wi... [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity#Protest_... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_Sector |