what this shows you is that even the semi-neutral i would say pro-ukraine
osce which was reporting on these cease-fire violations which was reporting on this for years
indicated that yes ukraine was increasing their assault on the donbass this was ukraine's war and
and even more accurate and poignant i'll say this was joe biden's war not putin's war
we know that the war in ukraine began for a number of reasons of course you have the issue of the
nazification of ukraine uh i saw someone post today on twitter they're like it was
a ukraine pro-ukraine account by the way they said
you know the lesson that we should learn from world war ii is that you have to defeat
fascism wherever you see it you have to defeat fascism they're saying putin is a fascist right
i was like should i respond no i don't want to waste the energy but
the real they are right the real lesson of world war ii is that yes
we need to defeat fascism unfortunately there was a few there was there was a few uh places that the
red army seemed to have missed in world war ii and it festered and it grew and then it and then it
skyrocketed into the problem that we have today in ukraine and yes
fascism should be defeated we know that was one of the reasons we know nato escalation and nato
armaments that were being placed in ukraine and the threat of you know nato accession to
ukraine was another reason for the existential threats that was posed against russia and uh
i would say most importantly and this is what the communist party of the russian federation cited as
their reasoning for encouraging putin for the past eight years to launch a military counter uh to the
ukrainian forces in the donbass was the fact that after the us-led coup in 2014 in ukraine what we
saw take place was two efforts of independence in donetsk and lagos two people's republics the
overwhelming majority of people there 86 and 96 percent respectively voted to become independent
and when they did that ukraine sent their ultra nationalists azov battalions band right battalions
uh trident forces into the region and started shelling uh the these civilians and rebels in the
donbass for eight years there was multiple efforts of the russian military to stop this fighting
the minsk accords was one of them that makes two accords were another one of them the ukrainians
refused they violated the ceasefires they violated these agreements on multiple occasions
and they refused to allow for the donbass region to have any sense of you know at least
military autonomy or protection right or security uh they continued the offensive and by the way
this war was unbalanced the the scale was tipped in the side of ukraine and their nationalists
extensively they had very heavy artillery that they continued to stage they said they weren't
going to stage heavy artillery they did and then they lined up more and more and more they killed
14 000 people in an eight year span leading to what we saw take place today the communist party
of the russian federation birthed the idea of this russian special military operation uh and they did
so because they saw that civilians were being slaughtered in the donbass they recognized that
those ethnic russians were people worth protecting and they were people who were akin to uh you know
their brothers their countrymen and yes that the russian it was of the duty of the russians to go
and um protect them all right uh yes it was an asymmetric war that's the word i was thinking of
it was an asymmetric war the ukrainians were the ones who had the power the rebels had no power but
they did hold off you know these ukrainian attacks somewhat well for eight years okay well now we're
seeing new evidence which shows us that in fact the believe it or not the western narrative that
uh russia launched an unprovoked attack into the dombass in broader ukraine uh was actually not
true this is not true this is not true i mean sure people in the west could acknowledge that
they had the nato escalation the notification of ukraine you had the uh eight years of warfare but
everyone will still say most everyone will still say with the exception of a few they'll say look
well russia still did an illegal invasion into ukraine it was illegal it was a legal invasion
and they did it and that was bad very bad they'll say it but they don't actually look at the facts
and we have some new facts we have some new evidence that maybe they should take a look
at i doubt they will though all right so here's what we knew after the first few days of the war
russian defense ministry published kiev's secret order for offensive against donbass uh but you
know this would and i'll read it for you but this was this was from the russian ministry of defense
and at the time people were like is this accurate information is russia lying well now we've seen
that russia really hasn't lied about these publications of documents that they put forward
like the bio lab documents those have been confirmed by uh the pentagon by under secretary
of state victoria newland uh and you know this ended up being correct as we're about to see
with the new evidence that has come forward from the osce but let's take a look at this so this is
march 9th just a few days after the war began the russian defense ministry has published a secret
order for an offensive against donbass in march 2022 issued by commander of the ukrainian national
guard defense ministry spokesman major general igor konashenkov told reporters on wednesday
so this was something that ukrainians were planning to do they said that they were planning
to launch a full-scale invasion in the donbass this was supposed to be a secret but the russians
got their hands on this information and that is why they launched this invasion in the timeline
that they did they didn't have to do it right then but they did and this also shows that this was
a u.s provocation and when the u.s was saying oh russia's going to invade russia is going to
invade russia is going to invade they knew russia was going to invade because they had created this
plan for the ukrainians to launch a full invasion into the dombass okay say the russian defense
ministry has published an original order issued by commander of ukrainian national guard colonel
general nikolai nikolai balan on january 22nd 2022 he said konoshenkov emphasized that the order
handed down to the commanding officer of the ukrainian national guard contains a detailed
plan for the prepare for preparing a strike group to carry out an offensive in the area of the
so-called joint forces operation in donbass the document establishes a battalion tactical group
of the national guard's fourth operational brigade ensures the provision of necessary supplies and
re-subordinates it to the 80th separate airborne assault brigade of the ukrainian armed forces
i would like to point out that since 2016 the brigade has been trained by u.s and british
instructors in lev in accordance with nato training programs again ukraine had about
30 battalions that have been trained by nato in the past five years uh they were doing about six
battalions every single year that's a lot of six brigades every year that's a lot of people
the russian defense ministry spokesman stress konashenko added that the order instructed the
deputy ahead of the national guard in to ensure the combat coordination of the battalion tactical
group with the 80th separate airborne assault brigade on february 7th through 28th so as you
can see there ukraine was planning an invasion into the dombass that's why russia launched this
at the time they did i mean they could have launched this invasion any time the past eight
years but they chose to do it then because they saw things were a lot about to get a lot worse
they saw that already over the past eight years ukraine had killed fourteen thousand people in
the dom bash just from shelling just from shelling hitting hospitals city centers residential areas
schools kindergartens fourteen thousand people died they saw that hey this is gonna get a lot
worse if we don't go in and stop this because they're about to do a full-scale invasion
if they get in there it's going to be a lot worse than going in right now and preventing them from
getting in the region before weekend right and start evacuating civilians so that's what they
did there was people who wrote this off no no jackson that can't be that can't be well now
the independence neutral observer and are they really that neutral i mean the osce was giving
up their vans for ukrainian military personnel to use to carry around and transport artillery
and ukrainian military personnel that doesn't sound too neutral to me but i think that's even
a bigger indictment of this new evidence we have take a look at this so according to the osce we
now know that there were 41 ceasefire violations recorded um as kiev's forces began shelling the
donbass that was on february 15th okay now i want you to take a look at the dates we have lined up
here and how there is a dramatic increase in the amount of ceasefire violations that took place
from february 15 to february 22nd as ukraine was simultaneously again as these documents point out
planning to launch a full-scale invasion into the dombass according to their own documents so here
we have february 15th osce recorded 41 ceasefire violations as kiev's forces began shelling the
donbass february 16th a little more we had 76 violations february 17th goes all the way up to
316 violations february 18th doubles 654 that's more than double 654 violations february 18th
february 19th again uh more than doubles again 1413 violations february 20th in 21st all right
it goes uh kind of stays at the same pace 2026 violations between those days and then february
22nd uh we see the largest number 1484 ceasefire violations virtually all by the kiev's side
february 24th of course russian forces intervene so what this shows you
is that even the semi-neutral i would say pro-ukraine uh uh organization the osce which
was reporting on these ceasefire violations which was reporting on this for years indicated that yes
uh unfortunate information ukraine was increasing their assault on the donbass not just a little bit
not just by like 10 ceasefire violations per day we're talking 1400 almost 1500 ceasefire
violations on february 22nd that's a dramatic escalation from february 15th when there was
just 41 ceasefire violations this was ukraine's war and and even more accurate and poignant i'll
say this was joe biden's war not putin's war this is not you know the communist party the russian
federation's war this was ukraine in the deep states war this was london in wall street's war
this was biden's war this was william burns's war this is victoria newlands war this is uh
this is this is their war it's not putin's war he stopped the war this is this is an effort to stop
the indiscriminate killing of civilians in the dombass over the past eight years this is not
putin's starting a war this is putin ending a war and the new evidence from the osce proves
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