[friendlyguy85]

I will try to sum up what is going on. After Ukrainians made government turnover of president Yanukovych ( he and his sons have stolen over 40 billion $ during last couple years), the new government made a terrible mistake and cancelled pretty conditional and stupid law, which allowed russian language to be used in official documents ( Ukraine is mostly bilingual, and everyone understands both russian and ukrainian). Canceling this law doesn't mean that russian language is banned. It is just CANT be used in official documents. After canceling this law, parliamentary representatives told that there will be a new law which will respect not only two languages, but will spread on others which are used on Ukrainian territory.

Putin's propaganda presented this as infringement of ethnic Russians and that new government are fascists which made illegal turnover.

Three main nationalities in Crimea are ethnic russians (1.5m), ukrainians (500.00) and tatars (who actually lived in Crimea, before Stalin repressed them in 1944-1950). Also Russia pays Ukrainian government for keeping part of their fleet in Crimea.

So, these forces "invaded" Crimea, but the had no russian markings and it was again presented, as these are volunteers who help to protect Crimea from west-ukrainian fascists (yeah, right, volunteers with guns, helicopters and armored cars). The Crimea parlament was capruted and now is ruled by pro-russian marginals who declare Crimea autonomy and that is should be a part of Russia. The officially request help from Putin to protect themselves. And yesterday Russian Council of federations allowed Putin to invade Crimea. But post-faktum it already happened.

[kushti]

You forget to say about new "power" in Kiev and west Ukraine:

BBC video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkiSPMpTp_I Sasha Biliy @ Rovno government meeting(UA language): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01is0p0mzJQ

(and much more)

Of course, people of Crimea, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Lugansk, Odessa see that violent nazi power and want to detach from the new Ukraine.

[dmishe]

And this is surely why people of those regions came to meetings today supporting country's integrity and crimeans.

[friendlyguy85]

Okay, i will say this only once - there are NO nazis in ukraine.

Sasha Biliy is not the whole country or doesn't represent even a city. He is just a mad guy who walks city streets with empty machine gun. This video made a huge resonance in Ukraine, so even our Interior minister [secretary of state] (Arsen Avakov) reacted to this on his FB page saying that this is absolutely inappropriate. And i am sure, that this man will be in jain really soon.

I ask this question every person who speaks about nazis in ukraine. IF there are nazis, who hate russian people - WHY there was NOT A SINGLE attack on russian embassy in whole ukraine? Why not a single russian was killed by evil ukrainian nazis?

[kushti]

If Ukraine is against nazis, Biliy & Yarosh should be in jail already not walking on the streets with empty(??? how did you check that?) machine gun. And we already see violence against jews http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premi... and communist party offices. Remember history, german nazis started with jews & communists.

[viraptor]

Thanks for the information about the cancelled law. I haven't seen it mentioned before.

[friendlyguy85]

I honestly do not think, that it was a root cause. Judging by how fast and smoothly everything happened, invasion was planned long before, and cancelling this law was just a coincidence which gave a boost and just one more reason for invasion.

[pavelrub]

This doesn't mean anything. Of course they had plans for the occupation of Crimea - countries have operational plans for a variety of contingencies that they practice for: that's what militaries do.

[viraptor]

Sure, I wasn't trying to imply that was a cause at all - it's just great to know more of the details on the situation.