> while the uprise in Donbass was, as far as I know, spontaneous, with tacit Russian support;
The European Court of Human Rights analyzed this when they were judging a case regarding the shot down airliner, and they found no evidence of any local insurgency. Instead, according to the facts established by the ECHR, the fighting in Donbas and Crimea was between armed forces of Ukraine and forces under the command of Russia.
> followed the coup organized by the west in Kiev
After over 100 protesters were shot and killed under Yanukovych, he fled the country fearing criminal charges, and was removed from office by the parliament with 328-0 votes. No-one even from his own party opposed this. Whatever legal tehnicalities there could've been, they're settled after Ukraine held new elections months later and elected a new president with a full mandate.
> the west did breach an agreement - tacit perhaps, I don't recall - with Russia as Lavrov stated
If you are referring to the sob story about NATO promising never to accept Eastern Europe into NATO, then here's Gorbachev directly calling it a myth: https://twitter.com/Jesuitchild/status/1749887239226617873 Minister of foreign affairs Shevardnadze, minister of defence Yazov and others have also said that it's a fabrication.
> she calls for mutual tolerance and respect of rights.
That is exactly how Sweden and Finland have tried to live next to Russia. Finland's policy even spawned the term finlandization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization But seeing the way Russia has treated Ukraine made it abudantly clear that such policy was untenable and irresponsible, and both countries abandoned neutrality in favor of alliances designed to contain the imperialistic expansionist behavior of Russia. This is an especially large pivot for Sweden, which had been neutral for over 200 years.
Given the current conditions, a good first step towards mutual tolerance and respect of rights would be Russia packing up its things and getting out of Ukraine. And then, perhaps in a hundred years when everyone who remembers how Russians gleefully raped and murdered in Ukraine have died, further steps towards reconciliation can perhaps be made.
But before that, it'd would perhaps be a good idea to ask forgiveness for the past crimes first. Today marks the 75th anniversary of 1949 mass deportations by Russians that saw around 100 000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania deported in entire families, from babies to bed-ridden elderly, into Siberian wilderness because they were "class enemies". On such anniversaries, Russian embassies usually put out releases saying that it didn't happen, or if it did, they deserved it. Can you imagine German embassies acting like this on Holocaust remembrance days?
The European Court of Human Rights analyzed this when they were judging a case regarding the shot down airliner, and they found no evidence of any local insurgency. Instead, according to the facts established by the ECHR, the fighting in Donbas and Crimea was between armed forces of Ukraine and forces under the command of Russia.
> followed the coup organized by the west in Kiev
After over 100 protesters were shot and killed under Yanukovych, he fled the country fearing criminal charges, and was removed from office by the parliament with 328-0 votes. No-one even from his own party opposed this. Whatever legal tehnicalities there could've been, they're settled after Ukraine held new elections months later and elected a new president with a full mandate.
> the west did breach an agreement - tacit perhaps, I don't recall - with Russia as Lavrov stated
If you are referring to the sob story about NATO promising never to accept Eastern Europe into NATO, then here's Gorbachev directly calling it a myth: https://twitter.com/Jesuitchild/status/1749887239226617873 Minister of foreign affairs Shevardnadze, minister of defence Yazov and others have also said that it's a fabrication.
> she calls for mutual tolerance and respect of rights.
That is exactly how Sweden and Finland have tried to live next to Russia. Finland's policy even spawned the term finlandization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization But seeing the way Russia has treated Ukraine made it abudantly clear that such policy was untenable and irresponsible, and both countries abandoned neutrality in favor of alliances designed to contain the imperialistic expansionist behavior of Russia. This is an especially large pivot for Sweden, which had been neutral for over 200 years.
Given the current conditions, a good first step towards mutual tolerance and respect of rights would be Russia packing up its things and getting out of Ukraine. And then, perhaps in a hundred years when everyone who remembers how Russians gleefully raped and murdered in Ukraine have died, further steps towards reconciliation can perhaps be made.
But before that, it'd would perhaps be a good idea to ask forgiveness for the past crimes first. Today marks the 75th anniversary of 1949 mass deportations by Russians that saw around 100 000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania deported in entire families, from babies to bed-ridden elderly, into Siberian wilderness because they were "class enemies". On such anniversaries, Russian embassies usually put out releases saying that it didn't happen, or if it did, they deserved it. Can you imagine German embassies acting like this on Holocaust remembrance days?