President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the deliberate attack on Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv, expressing his intense anger towards Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. He made these remarks after his speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute on July 10.
  • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Ukraine wasn’t trying to join NATO before Russia invaded neighbors including Crimea in Ukraine,

    2018 and 2019 were well after Crimea, and the popular opinion in Ukraine shifted towards NATO in 2008 because of the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, one of said neighbors.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      But while Ukraine’s leadership has directly pressed for membership since at least 2008

      because of the Russian invasion of Georgia

      Why stop there? Lets argue about the Winter War.

      • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Because the Soviet Union who is not Russia fought the winter war, and Russia’s government signed the Budapest memorandum in 1994.