Inside the desperate attempts to prevent Putin’s first invasion of Ukraine, as told by the lead negotiator 🗣️ Baroness Ashton talks to robhastings what happened in meetings with world leaders as she tried in vain to stop the 2014 Ukraine crisis
The Russian leader was also concerned by Maidan. When Ashton met him in January 2014, Putin personally warned her not to take part in “opposition rallies”.
Things finally came to a head on 20 February when government forces opened fire on the protesters, killing 75 people. Two days later, the president was impeached, Yanukovych fled to Russia, and accusations began emerging that he hadAshton was soon back in Maidan, laying flowers in tribute to those who had died.
To play devil’s advocate, did Putin have fair concerns about the EU weakening his country by coaxing away a key economic and political ally? Especially when Russia had suffered from years of poverty and embarrassment after the collapse of the Soviet Union, partly thanks to ruthless oligarchs plundering state resources amid the sudden introduction of unregulated capitalism under the influence of the...
“Yanukovych could have decided to go back to the EU agreement – it was ready to be signed. He could have found a technical reason to slow it all down again. He could have brought in the leadership of Maidan and the opposition parties and talked to them… Who knows.”
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