The director of the US department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Alexander Darchiev, in an interview with Russian news agency TASS, which is linked to the Kremlin, said that Russia had warned the United States of a “point of no return” and a possible rupture of diplomatic relations between the countries.
Darchiev was asked whether the possibility of lessening diplomatic relations between Moscow and Washington was being considered.
“I would not like to indulge in hypothetical speculations about what is possible and what is not possible in the current turbulent situation, when Westerners led by the United States have trampled underfoot international law and absolute taboos in diplomatic practice,” Darchiev declared.
“In this context, I would like to mention the legislative initiative currently under discussion in Congress to declare Russia a ‘country sponsor of terrorism’.” “If passed, it would mean that Washington would have to cross the point of no return, with serious collateral damage to diplomatic relations bilateral agreements, until they are reduced or even broken”, concluded the diplomat.
In war
The relationship between the countries entered a more critical phase after Vladimir Putin authorized what he called a “special military operation” in the Donbass region (to the east of Ukraine, where the breakaway regions of Luhansk and Donetsk are located, which he recognized independence from). ).
At dawn on February 24, Russian forces began bombing various regions of the country, starting a war against Ukraine.
What was seen in the following days, however, was an attack on almost the entire Ukrainian territory, with explosions in several cities, including the capital Kiev.
On the day of the invasion, Putin justified himself by a recorded statement shown on TV. The Russian said there was an ongoing “genocide” in eastern Ukraine, carried out by the country’s “neo-Nazi” troops against ethnic Russians and separatists in the region.
The conflict still has no prospect of ending, as successive meetings between representatives of the two countries have so far failed to guarantee a definitive ceasefire.
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war history
The relationship between the two countries is not new: they have a common history that dates back to the Middle Ages.
Both countries have common roots in the East Slavic state of Kievan Rus. That is why Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks of Russians and Ukrainians as “one people”.
However, these countries advanced separately for centuries, which provided the emergence of two languages and cultures. While Russia was becoming an empire, Ukraine failed to establish its own state.
In the 17th century, large areas of present-day Ukraine became part of the Russian Empire, and the territories were reorganized into regular Russian provinces administered by governors appointed by Saint Petersburg, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
From then until the 20th century, Russia and the Soviet Union (USSR) carried out a program of “Russification” to discourage Ukrainian national identity.
After the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the end of World War I, Ukraine briefly became independent, until the early 1920s, when it became part of the Soviet Union.
In 1941, during World War II, the country was occupied by Germany, until Soviet Russia regained control of the country in 1944 and expanded its borders to include territories taken from Romania, Poland, and Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic).
In 1991, when the Soviet Union was dissolved, this large territory it occupied was divided into 15 independent republics. Ukraine is one of them: in July 1990 it declared its sovereignty.
The Ukrainian Parliament declares independence, awaiting a referendum on December 1, 1991, which is finally approved with 90% of the vote. Thus, Ukraine joins the new Commonwealth of Independent States, along with Russia and Belarus.
From then on, Ukraine turned its eyes to Europe and its interest in joining NATO.
Tensions between these two former Soviet states increased in late 2013 due to a historic political and trade agreement with the European Union. After pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych called off the talks – apparently under pressure from Moscow – violent protests erupted in Kiev for weeks.
Then, in March 2014, Russia annexed Crimea, an autonomous peninsula in southern Ukraine with strong Russian loyalty, on the pretext that it was defending its interests and those of Russian-speaking citizens.
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