Скачать или смотреть The Budapest Memorandum & NATO Enlargement (The Ukraine Russia Conflict Redefined)

In this broadcast i speak on two issues which have redefined the conflict and help understand the history behind both countries disposition towards each other. The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances which is a memorandum that included security assurances against threats or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. The Ukraine assurance was put off due to the Euromaidan coup of Ukraine president Viktor Yushchenko, with Putin responding that Russia did not make promises to a state they did not identify with. Last night, Wikileaks released classified documents from 2008, in which former US-Russia ambassador and current CIA director, William Burns, states that Ukraine's intent to seek a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) at the Bucharest summit, where Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and other senior officials have reiterated strong opposition, stressing that Russia would view further eastward expansion as a potential military threat.

On assurances without guarantees in a “shelved document”:

https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/close/...

Wikileaks: Russia's NATO Enlargement Redlines

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08...