> False. The current actions are not genocide by any means.
Despite popular belief genocide is not what the pro Russians want it to be, and Russias actions clearly fit within the UN's well defined definition of genocide.
>> In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
>> Killing members of the group;
>> Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
>> Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
>> Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
>> Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
We already have evidence of many of these individual things (of which any constitutes genocide).
The Russians have already been forcibly deporting children and sending them to Russia, so point 5 is met.
The Russians are on video castrating Ukrainians so we have point 4 met.
The Russians have been indiscriminately bombing civilians so we have points 1 and 2 easily.
> Even raping of civilians is unproved.
I see you avoided the whole indiscriminate killing of civilians, of which Russians are already in jail for.
It seems like you wouldn't be satisfied without video evidence of these crimes, but don't worry the Russians the will answer for their war crimes in time.
> False. The expansion of NATO to the east, 2014 anti-russian coup in Ukraine, the refusal to follow to Minsk agreements(guaranteed by western leaders, who failed them too) and militarization of Ukraine were the major reasons of the events.
Why does Ukraine have to abide by the Minks agreement but Russia is free to wilfully for years violate the Budapest agreement where Russia promised to not invade Ukraine of threaten its territorial borders in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nukes?.
None of these are "reasons for these events", what all these are is Russias excuses to try and dominate another country and eliminate their statehood.
> Another false: Putin never claimed Ukraine doesn't exist.
Here's a source from the literal Russian media. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/877224
Here's a quote literally from Putin.
`When it came to Ukraine, Putin flared up. Addressing Bush, he said: "You understand, George, that Ukraine is not even a state! What is Ukraine? Part of its territories is Eastern Europe, and some, and significant, are donated by us!"`
Everything you said is false, is true, strange that.