Special Military Operation (The war in Ukraine)

version 2. 2 READ DESCRIPTION (need sound mod, link in description) READ THE UPDATE LOGS "On February 24, 2022, what was called impossible happened. War. Between Russia and Ukraine. Wait… Was it really impossible? Why 2022 specifically? Has the world truly erased 2014 from memory? Has everyone forgotten Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, Mariupol, where in the summer of 2014 the Ukrainian army, backed by volunteer battalions like Azov and Right Sector, waged the so-called Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO)? And wasn't the annexation of Crimea a signal of the future confrontation? Has everyone forgotten the downed MH17 Boeing? Has everyone forgotten the cauldrons of Ilovaisk and Debaltseve? Or, more importantly, the Minsk Agreements of 2014 and 2015, which no one complied with? Eight long years. Eight years of prelude. Eight years of shelling Horlivka, Donetsk, Luhansk. Thousands of civilian dead by the start of 2022. And what was Russia doing all this time? Instead of consistent diplomacy, Moscow would either harden its rhetoric or resume trade with Kyiv, not understanding what goal to pursue. And within Russia itself, for eight years, they turned a blind eye to the fact that Donbas needed not just recognition but a coherent strategy. So in the end, in 2022, they had to act hastily - with intelligence that painted a picture of "flowers and champagne" instead of Ukrainian trenches. with airdropped troops right into the thick of it without ground support. With columns driving into the heart of Ukraine and falling into ambushes along the way, with the belief that they would be welcomed as heroes. No. February 24, 2022, is not the beginning. It is the climax - a logical, bloody act of this protracted tragedy. But then again — who is right here? Kyiv, which sabotaged Minsk for eight years and shelled the cities of Donbas? The West, which pretended the ATO wasn't a war? Moscow, which accumulated strategic mistakes and then rushed headlong into the abyss with bad intelligence, old maps, an