Was Bill Clinton Aware Of Vladimir Putin’s Plan To Attack Ukraine?

Posted by: lukwago J in world news May 6, 2023

Russian president Vladimir Putin told Bill Clinton three years prior to his 2014 attack on Ukraine that he was not obligated by the Budapest Agreement’s guarantee of the nations’s territorial integrity, according to the former US President.

However the disclosure raises concerns about whether the US and its European allies may have been better prepared for the attack in 2014 when Russian invaded the Donbas and annexed Crimea.

At the 2011 World Economic Forum in Davos, Clinton claimed to have spoken with the Russian president.

During the discussion, Putin brought up the 1994 Memorandum which required Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan to give up the nuclear arsenals they had received from the Soviet Union in exchange for assurance that their sovereignty would be respected within existing borders.

“Putin told me in 2011 three years before he took Crimea that he didn’t agree with the agreement I made with Boris Yeltsin that they would respect Ukraine’s territory if they gave up their nuclear weapons,”

Bill Clinton said on Thursday at a public discussion at the 92nd Street Y a Jewish cultural and community center in New York as reported by the Guardian.

Former Ukrainian president invaded Crimean Peninsula

Putin said to me :… I know Boris agreed to go along with you and John major and NATO but he never got it through the Duma ( Russian parliament). We have our extreme nationalists too. I don’t agree with it and I don’t support it and I am not bound by it,” he added.

His meeting with Clinton however revealed that Putin had already made up his mind and severing that agreement years before the Maiden uprising.

In February 2014 during the most catastrophic stages of the Euro Maiden revolution that finally led to the ousting of Viktor Yanukovych, the pro Russian former president of Ukraine, Russia invaded the Crimean peninsula.

Around 30000 Russian troops entered the Crimea while Yanukovych’s pro-Russian regime killed protesters in Central Kiev and they took control of the peninsula by early March 2014.

In some ways the event started Russia’s on going with Ukraine since then the Russian military has kept control over Crimea.

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