Moscow's Record: Russia has broken 190 transactions - Sky News
Against the background of the fact that US President Donald Trump has recognized that the Russian Federation "could" delay "negotiations on termination of war, the publication reminds that the Russians have a history of non -compliance. "And this can be a sinister feature of the future if you can consider Moscow's previous record to comply with the agreements," Sky News journalists write. According to Michael Clark's military analyst, Russia has already terminated 190 agreements.
One of the most important for Ukraine were the 2014 Minsk Agreements, signed in order to end the fighting after Russia's invasion of Crimea in February of that year. "The largest of all, I think, was 1994, the Budapest Memorandum, when Ukraine abandoned its nuclear weapons, which it inherited from the old Soviet Union, and Ukraine was the only country that could use it," Clark said. The analyst stressed that other countries were Kazakhstan and Belarus.
However, they actually could do anything with the weapons they received. And Ukraine had experience. "They could have their own nuclear forces that they would work if they wanted, but they gave up them in 1994 in exchange for security guarantees," Clark reminded. In particular, the military analyst noted that the Russian Federation was more consistent in agreements when it attracted its own companies.
Clark said that when Gazprom "supplied gas to Europe," they always adhered to their contracts, they always adhered to about 2008. " But then Russian President Vladimir Putin entered his "aggressive phase", "playing games on the isolation of Ukraine and Ukrainian pipelines from the rest of the European deliveries. " On March 26, US President Donald Trump stated that Putin was delaying the time to reach a truce in the Russian-Ukrainian war. He said he used a similar business strategy.