Soloviev Exposes NATO’s 8-Year War on Donbas: How the West Ignored Russia’s Warnings, Manipulated Its Media, and Pushed the World to the Brink
Vladimir Soloviev (
@VRSoloviev): First of all, your sympathies have never been with small countries. That’s why you destroyed Yugoslavia, which was quite small. That’s why you never helped Libya. You never helped Syria. You never helped Iraq. You never helped Afghanistan. Every time you were fighting side by side—not Switzerland but Europe—you were fighting side by side with big sharks, trying to get whatever nice pieces you could.
Second, there was no invasion on the 24th of February 2022. You failed to feel any empathy towards the people of Donbas, who were fighting for 8 years for their independence, right at the center of Europe. You saw them being killed, and we’re talking about tens of thousands of people in Donbas. You had every possible commission and committee from every possible European organization that was supposed to be there and to control what was happening on the front line, and they failed.
As was told later by the leaders of Europe at the time who signed the Minsk peace agreement, “Well, we were tricking Russia. The only job we were trying to do was to give Ukrainians a chance to build up the military that we were building for them to fight Russia.”
So, three days before, we accepted the independence of Donbas, and we signed a treaty with them stating that we would protect them. A week before, Ukraine started heavily bombarding Donbas, up to the point that the leaders of Donbas were forced to issue a decree for the evacuation of children and women from the territory of Donbas. It was hell for a week.
We called Zelensky. We asked him to stop. He didn’t stop. Then we told him that because we had signed an agreement of peace and protection, it was our responsibility to fight for Donbas, not to take Kiev, not to take Lvov, not to conquer Ukraine, but to protect Donbas. That was it. That was completely missed in the West.
As for the Russian position, since the 2008 Munich speech, Putin had been addressing the West every single year, stating, “Do not go that far. You promised us not to do that.” Every year, at the highest levels of the United Nations and in every single interview, we were always explaining our position.
But what was quite interesting was that Western journalists who conducted those interviews were editing them, making them really short and trying to do whatever they could to prevent Putin’s position from being heard in the West.
In December 2021, we issued a letter to NATO countries and to the United States explaining all our concerns. We were ignored. We were not heard.
French President Macron, I think at the end of January or the beginning of February, came to Moscow, and there was a press conference. Once again, we answered every single question, and once again, this press conference was not fully transmitted.
So the West didn’t want to hear, and that’s the problem. You’ve been manipulated by your political leaders and by your media. You were forced not to hear Russia and not to see what was actually coming. That’s too bad.