(After the culmination of successful peace talks which resulted in an agreement that the nation of Ukraine would never join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and that all territories Russia occupies currently that were formerly part of Ukraine are now irrevocably part of the Russian Federation, excepting the cities of Dnipro and Kiev which the Russian Federation returns as its part of the agreement, to Ukraine.).
On 20 January 2025, Russia, having liberated the entire Donbass region of southeastern Ukraine and all territory to the eastern bank of the Dnieper river, the Ukrainian army having collapsed in full retreat, declared a final end to current activity within its Special Military Operation.)
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The President of the United States, the U.S. Secretary of State, the British Prime Minister and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, issued a joint statement on the developments that have recently taken place in Ukraine.
- FOR BROAD MEDIA RELEASE (5 February 2025)
We would like it to be known, first and foremost, that our resolution to stand by the people and nation of Ukraine remains undiminished. Our support for the institutions and territories of Ukraine are rock solid, in the light of which we hereby provide a cast iron guarantee that we will not let our Ukrainian friends down in their continuing fight against Russian aggression.
On this day the entire world can see that our united support for Ukraine has now resulted in the failure and utter defeat of the Russians in their goal to occupy and enslave all Ukraine. Together we have defied the unprovoked aggression of Vladimir Putin thereby humiliating him in his aim to enslave the people of Ukraine and destroy their nation, wiping it completely from the map. They have failed. We and the Ukrainian people have won against all the odds and all the expectations that we would be defeated. We have stood up to the aggressor and we have defeated him.
Vladimir Putin, by being unable to take the nation of Ukraine into the grotesque recreation of the Soviet Union he planned, has been thwarted in his plans to continue his invasion of Europe after his goal of obliterating Ukraine was realized. There will now be no reconstituted Soviet Union, nor will there be the planned invasion of the remainder of Europe by the Russian armed forces. We have stood firm throughout this heinous aggression that has made Russia a global pariah and has isolated it worldwide.
We are resolved to maintain our robust stance against the pernicious leader of the Russian Federation and to ensure any further acts of aggression on his part are responded to in an equally forceful manner to that which we have demonstrated over the past three difficult years.
There is no place in the modern world for the kind of abuses of international law perpetrated by the Russian state in Ukraine. Territorial sovereignty must be rigidly maintained with resolve and perpetual vigilance. It is to be fervently hoped that Vladimir Putin, the Russian government and the entire Russian population has learned a fundamental lesson through the unconscionable acts of war committed aggression perpetrated upon the Ukrainian and that any further similar acts of war will absolutely be countered with all the force at our command.
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VLADIMIR PUTIN COMMENTS UPON THE SITUATION IN UKRAINE & JOINT STATEMENT OF WESTERN STATES
PUBLISHED BY TASS (6 February 2025)
“As you will know very well we sought a peaceful outcome to the differences between the Russian state, the Russian-speaking people of the Donbass and the successive Ukrainian regimes which took power after the Maidan coup of 2014. It was never once our intention that violence should ensue between us. Through the seven years of the Minsk process we sought a comprehensive reconciliation and lasting peace through diplomatic means. Unfortunately our western partners and the authorities in Kiev it is now known never had this objective. Their goal, always, even through all these years, was to weaken Russia and to deliver a debilitating blow to our nation.
Despite all our efforts, efforts which did not end with the end of the Minsk process, despite offering talks with the Americans and NATO on the building of a new security architecture for peace in Europe, we found ourselves pushed inexorably in one direction, a direction that I have to say was planned for us all along. It was personally hard for me to believe that people of high status could act in such a way and as I have admitted in previous times this question has arisen, I was taken for a fool at that time. I was sincere and wished for a peaceful outcome. Unfortunately those sitting by me at the same negotiating table were not.
Then, in Istanbul, when all the primary areas of contention between ourselves and the Ukrainian regime seemed about to be reconciled, the subsequent signed paper was binned due to the intervention of Boris Johnson, Joe Biden’s emissary to Kiev, telling the Ukrainians not to search for peace, but instead to engage in war.
In regard to the primary accusations made against us that we sought to occupy the whole Ukraine and subject it, to destroy it and enslave its people, this is entirely false. Our aims were stated clearly as we began our operation to attain them, to ensure Ukraine never joined NATO, to free our Russian-speaking brothers and sisters of eastern Ukraine from danger and ensure their future security free to continue to use the language of their birth. Additionally the goals also set at that time were the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. Having achieved these goals and having no wish or desire for the attainment of further goals we halted our operation.
It is now our wish to continue in peace with all neighbors, the same wish we had from the start of the western intervention in our neighbor Ukraine in the years leading up to the cumulative and catastrophic event of the Maidan coup of 2014. Our further wish is to work had in the new regions of the Russian Federation to improve the lives of all who live there and, as soon as possible, to take the same path we endeavored to walk from the very start, the path to peace. No ambition existed to go to war with NATO by attempting the conquest of Europe. This scare story was thin indeed. All our goals are now achieved. A quiet life of trade and friendly cooperation within the BRICS and other similar international institutions is the extent of our ambition now. An ambition we welcome all others to join and invest in toward that most noble of goals, a full and permanent global peace.”
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