Which Countries Does Russia Dispute Territories With?
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
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▶ In this video I talk about Russia's territorial disputes.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:48 Ukraine: Crimea
02:02 Ukraine: Eastern Border
03:05 Moldova: Transnistria
03.48 Georgia: Abkhazia & South Ossetia
04:21 Norway: Barents Sea
05: 11 Japan: Kuril Islands
06:07 Kazakhstan: Ukatny Island
06:43 USA: Wrangel Island
07:11 Estonia & Latvia Borders
07:46 Finland: Karelia
08:16 Summary
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*Which other country's territorial disputes should I do a video on next?*
I believe, that you should do some videos about territorial disputes in central America.
I think you should do Africa, I wanna hear about territorial disputes in Africa.
Caucasia, middle east
india, china, and pakistan border. i wanna learn more about it
Italy - Vatican City
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricciolo_d%27Italia
The fact that Russia has or formally had disputes with European countries like Finland and Ukraine, while also having disputes with Japan and South Korea, just shows how massive of a country it is.
And with United States as well.
The author misleads his viewers. There are no territorial disputes between Latvia, Estonia and Russia. They were settled in 2007. Latvia recognized the legality of the entry of the Pytalovsky district into Russia, and Estonia recognized the city of Ivangorod as Russian. Finland signed a peace treaty with Russia, according to which the border was demarcated. The Finnish authorities do not make any official claims against Russia.
@@Krym_rus Yes, but my point still stands because it had those disputes in the first place.
@@neogrimm There are no territorial disputes between Russia, on the one hand, and Finland, Estonia, Latvia and the USA, on the other. They don't exist. The United States does not claim Wrangel Island. Estonia does not need Ivangorod, and Latvia does not need the Pytalovsky district. These are obvious and verifiable facts. It is strange that you are stubborn and refuse to recognize them.
By the way, Russia does not consider Transnistria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia as its territory. Moreover, she considers Transnistria to be part of Moldova and stands only for granting real autonomy to this rebellious region. As for South Ossetia and Abkhazia, it recognizes their independence from Georgia (all the more strange that Georgians are protesting against the liberation of the Caucasian peoples from national oppression, the Georgians themselves have separated from Russia and nothing, let them now learn the lessons of separatism on their own skin).
Gagauzia & Trans-Istria are not the same territory!
Вообще-то правильно Приднестровье...
Corect e Moldova 🇲🇩
Somebody got butthurt?
As long as the west supports the cut off of Serbia into many countries.....they have no right to speak about transnistria
@@fartmaster7909 no he means that they are two separate regions claiming independence
Gagauzia is NOT the same area or people as Transnistria! Completely different! They are a TURKIC-speaking people in the south of Moldova. While they are not supportive of Romanian unification, they are still governed by Moldova and remain part of it (no revolutions took place there.)
Came here looking for this comment!
And the people there are mostly "Christian Turkic".
same Abhkazia and Osseia = not Georgian culture
The weird thing about Gagauzia is that despite being an autonomous region, Russian is the dominant language in their administration and schools, most of the locals are russian speakers and the Gagauz language is being neglected by the autonomous administration.
@@Bobogdan258 Yet the Moldovan government still can administrate Gagauzia despite the more different ethnic group comparing to Transnistria.
As a Finn I would like to add something to the territorial dispute with Russia. The territory most focused on is Karelia. Finland officially stopped claiming the territory in the 1970s and the leadership at the time allowed the Soviet Union to control those territories (although the USSR doesn't exist anymore which might change things?).
Those Finnish politicians who want Karelia returned are a minority and the return of Karelia is not in the nation's official policy.
Under the Russian rule Karelia and the city of Vyborg have been severely neglected by the Russian government (officials and St. Petersburg get most of the funding in the area) and the regions infastructure is generally not up to Finnish standards. Upon the return of Karelia, it would be an unpleasant undertaking to build up the regions infastructure as it would be quite costly for the economy. There are also some 300 000 Russians in the region and it would take time and money to integrate them to Finnish society (Finland can't just go ahead and force them to be Finnish or kick them out, as that would harm the international reputation of the nation)
Boris Yeltsin did indeed offer to sell the territory in 1991, but the Finnish politicians probably didn't want to buy land from a nation that was unstable at the time (the fall of the soviet union ruined the economy even further and civil unrest was high)
I'd also like to note that this is from my point of view as a Finnish person. If there are any Russians in this comment section I'd gladly hear their opinion on the matter, as long as it doesn't turn into an endless sh*tshow of insults and personal attacks.
Выкуси!!!
Карелия была есть и будет Русской!
And speaking of an endless sh*tshow of insults and personal attacks, I guess it already started...
@@ASVoriginalcope and seethe, soon any notion of an independent and centralised russian state will cease to exist
@@AlreadyTakenTag I excuse for him. Btw there are still many people there who speaks Karelian, Vod and even Finnish is considered as a regional language
Probably for the best you guys didn’t buy it, unless Finland immediately joined up with NATO afterward, no doubt would’ve Putin have tried another “special military operation” to get the land back once Yeltsin was out and he was in.
As if Russia needs more territory.
Are you forgetting that a lot of their territory is useless? Just by this statement i feel like u are an idiot. Imagine building in territories JUST to lose it. Wouldnt u want YOUR stuff back? I am not saying russia is right but looking at their economy its clear why they would attempt such a thing
Why not ?
Yea, we do.
@@kxmapperwhy
@@kxmapperRussia needs to be partitioned and wiped off the map for global peace. For starters, we should give Königsberg back to Germany. Or maybe give it to Poland.
Latvian here. We had to agree on a border with our Eastern neighbour in order to join NATO. We gave up our claim on Abrene (Pitalovo), in order to be part of NATO. As we joke-there was no point in pressing claims towards a part of our land where there might be two Latvians living in it, who prefer not to use Latvian when communicating between themselves. This means, that our border is set.
There was not an agrement to a border, we just agreed to not talk about it. In 'Satversme' (Latvian constitution from 1922 that is still in use today) that teritory is still claimed in it as ours. So in my opinion, and my other friends, we still have a valid claim for it.
i still hope latvia will get it back becouse my family owned land there
Maybe we should just respect international birders?@@rufalo233
If you have rights on this land then go to Russia and use it.
yes, invade already. You've been dreaming for a long time
Which countries do they not have territorial disputes with?
Luxemburg
vatican city
san mario
Equatorial guinea
They need to be taken down a peg or two.
China : Finally a worthy opponent
Lol
As a Japanese, it should be noted that although Japan has not made any territorial claims to Southern Karafuto, the Japanese government treats it as an undetermined territorial area.
As a Japanese you must be ashamed of everything Japanese people and government did within 1937-1945 and shut the f*ck up with all the territorial claims.
Finally someone mentioned this!
Russia's dispute with Georgia did not start in 2008, but in 1991-92
well russian troops ended up leaving in the 90s after a while and then returned in 2008 which is probably why he didn’t mention it
Russian peacekeepers have been in South Ossetia since 1992 after the ongoing military conflict between Georgia and Ossetia, after which they did not leave there and were considered the basis of stability in the region. After Saakashvili came to power, Georgia began to believe that peacekeepers had a bad influence on the region and in 2008 Saakashvili attacked Ossetia, where several peacekeepers were killed, which was the reason for the attack on Georgia.@@bla-t
@@bla-t They withdrew from other parts of Georgia in 2000's, but they never left Abkhazia or "South Ossetia". but before 2008 they still had mandate of "Peacekeeping forces", even though effectively occupying Georgian territories. Now they are just called occupying forces.
Thanks for keeping in mind the Baltic states too. Hello from Estonia.
Hello!
The answer is "yes"
Lol
Lmao
Latvian case was resolved in 2007. Estonian not ratified yet.
There was a territorial conflict between USSR and China in 1969 over a border on Ussuri river.
there was a problem that Damansky Island became closer to China due to a change in the channel, so the Soviet border guards had to shed blood in order to keep the island for Russia and not give up the narrow-eyed
Putin solved the problem by giving an island (and more than one) to friendly China. now there is no dispute, I can sleep peacefully, even knowing that China is only 60 kilometers away from me
Well its not how russian officials see that claims. Effectively russian government is controlled by 70+ persons and they believe that all territories that USSR had controlled after WW2 is a rightful claim. It seems that people will never process that USSR collapsed 30 years ago and this type of disputes over territory is about 100 years outdated...
@@TheRed7000
>And 80%+ of the peoples of Donetsk Lugansk and Crimea agree with him.
No they don't.
Majority of people there agreed to be part of independent Ukraine when the USSR collapsed.
Rest of your comment is your typical kremlin shillin.
Except for Israel and Kosovo right? Israel can claim whatever they they want based on historical claims in a book most the world do not believe but Russia no claim to areas they built and held for hundreds of years, that are inhabited by people who call themselves Russians. Do not even get me started on the cluster fuck NATO made out of the middle East for Israel's benefit and the mess in Serbia. Funny the ones doing the pointing are the worst offenders in history. USA is stolen land...invaded, genocided and stolen. Tell France to get out of Africa.. remove 800+ military bases...hypocrites. why is the US in Syria? Colonisation ended 50 years ago why are France and others still interfering in Africa? The empire called Britain is dead and they are an irrelevant little overpopulated pompous island holding onto Northern Ireland like entitled imperialists do. Can give you hundreds more of the wests hypocrisy but I am tired. Read your history...what your countries are guilty of and then point when you have made your government and elite accountable.
Name your country and we'll arrange a political issues of it. So you can be a part of "only bad Russians" club.
Russia is successor of USSR. Russia succeed all the USSR debt and international treaties.
Nice video. One small tip: the "KH" in Kherson, Kharkiv etc. is pronounced as a breathy H, with the K silent.
Closest sound in English might be the "CH" in "loch" (as in the Scottish lakes like Loch Ness)
Thank you. I don't like to mispronounce words, particularly names of people, places, etc. I appreciate your input. :)
@@curiousworld7912then call Zaporozhye correctly😂
There is another conflict no mentioned between russia and south korea in noktundo island
Its on the russian-north korean border but south korea claims the island. You can have a look at the dispute if you want to
And Tuva and 64 villages east of Amur are claimed by Taiwan
Great video. Thanks! 😊
I believe one more territorial dispute is between Canada and Russia over a portion of the North Pole. I believe Canada's extended shelf claim overlaps some of Russia's. 🤔
The North Pole must be Russian because bears live there🐻🇷🇺
@@user-tn1fo1tw6p And clearly, there are absolutely no bears in Canada at all...
Clarification
- Ukrainian territories are not disputed but occupied. International law precisely defines whose territory it is, as well as bilateral agreements between the Russian Federation and Ukraine that the Russian Federation has violated.
Addition
- Many disputed territories between China and Russia, in particular islands in riverbeds.
As if international law was ever functioning
Major correction! Russo-Georgian conflict in Abkhazia and Samachablo (Not South Ossetia, that's a fictional name) didn't start in 2008, but in 1992. In fact, this was mainly caused by Stalin's decision in 1931 to declare Abkhazia as an independent Soviet republic and started exiling and replacing population of ethnic Christian Abkhazians with Muslim Circassians, and giving them the special "Abkhazian residency" documents that only they had in the entire USSR. As a Georgian himself, he knew perfectly how to destabilise his own countr,y and he hit us where the biggest tension was, and where it hurt us the most. He understood that Georgians were the least culturally tied with other Soviet nations (because of language, culture and ethnicity) and always went an extra mile to make sure we were "properly controlled". It was his biggest priority since Georgia staying under USSR meant him staying in power. If his own country was not under control, he'd risk his position as Secretary General. So this conflict was actually brewing for 60 years before it exploded in 1992 when Yeltsin and the "Neo-KGB" picked up Stalin's playbook again, which now is like a Bible to Putin...
Oh! Yet another one tie-chewer! Deal with independent Abkhazia and South Osetia (whatever you call it). You know, killing the civilians by heavy artillery is not the best way to make them enthusiastic about reunion.
that is, it is possible to disconnect from Russia, but how will someone separate from Georgia is it bad? Did I understand you correctly?
@@xxxDeus No you did not. Georgia is a country with an insular culture, completely unrelated to Russia, ethnically, linguistically or culturally. Only thing Russia and Georgia have in common is religion, and Georgia adopted the Orthodox Christianity a thousand years before Russia... Russia is an empire. There is a big difference... I just explained a 90 year long operation of exiling 250,000 people from their homes from a region that has the population of 300,000 people. You can't equate it to Russia that has over 100 million people, over 100 languages, more than 10 religions, countless ethnicities and so on. All of these cultures and ethnicities were made part of the federation (union before that, and empire before that) with conquest. That is why every state of Russia has the right to leave the federation. Similarly, even Abkhazia has the right to do so, but you can't mass exile and ethnically cleanse 300,000 Abkhazians, then settle 300,000 other people, call them "new Abkhazians" and then make that request for them using the puppet government... That's my point!
There is a reason why even Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and other MAIN allies of Russia (and Russia-depended states) don't recognise Abkhazia as an independent country AT ALL. Even Iran that has been historically Georgia's biggest enemy recognises Abkhazia as part of Georgia. Out of 192 countries in the UN, 189 recognise Abkhazia as part of Georgia. The only countries who don't (except for Russia) are Nauru and Nicaragua. I mean, there is no arguement for this, these two countries are literally the whole world away and has never had any relations with any countries from Caucasus. This is by far THE MOST undisputed conflict in the last 200 years, literally the whole world agrees so you can't reduce it to a mere linguistic trick of if A>B so A1>B1... These are two completely different arguements.
Great video.
Abkhazia and Samachablo were, are and will be Georgia🇬🇪
SOUTH OSETTIA IS NEVER GEORGIA
lol no
@@eduardog3000Ask the UN
@@BH-gh6qmouth ossetia made by communist, it does t exist in history😊
Kurdistán=good🥳
Kosovo=💯
South osetia=Violation 💀
Abjazia=bad👹
"Territorial disputes" is one way of saying Russians trying to reap where you have not sown...
Unlike all other countries through the history. Oh, wait...
Karjala takas! Perkele! 🇫🇮
That intro was fire 🔥
0:09 as someone from badajoz i want Olivenza to be spanish! (But also Love Portugal alot 😊)
Сейчас это мало кто помнит, но в Приднестровье первыми вошли именно украинские националисты. Защищать украинцев. Потом уже клич бросили, что румыны русских убивают и туда полезли казаки. А когда уже бойня пошла - пошла армия
At 6:09
Japan vs Russia
Fun fact:
Russian and Japan supposedly are still at war from WW2 because Japan refuses to secede those islands, and signing the peace treaty would effectively do that....
No, Russia and Japan are not still at war. While it is true that they haven't yet signed a formal peace treaty, the Soviet-Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956 states:
1. The state of war between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Japan shall cease on the date on which this Declaration enters into force and peace, friendship and good-neighborly relations between them shall be restored.
The Declaration was ratified by both governments and went into effect Dec 12, 1956.
It is clause 9 of the Declaration that Japan has long accused USSR (and now Russia) of violating and is the reason there is no peace treaty.
9. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Japan agree to continue, after the restoration of normal diplomatic relations between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Japan, negotiations for the conclusion of a Peace Treaty.
In this connexion, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, desiring to meet the wishes of Japan and taking into consideration the interests of the Japanese State, agrees to transfer to Japan the Habomai Islands and the island of Shikotan, the actual transfer of these islands to Japan to take place after the conclusion of a Peace Treaty between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Japan.
Neighboring countries: *exist*
Russia: we don’t do that here
Pereiaslavl agreement has been concluded between Moscovia and Ukraine (part of Poland at that time) not in 1954, but in 1654, in the times of Bohdan Khmelnitsky and Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov and didn’t absolutely take Crimean question into account, because Crimea has been a satellite of the Ottoman Empire at that time.
Не было Московии была великое княжество Московское
@@user-uz2oz7db9z в английском языке Moscovia в целом приемлемый термин. Мой комментарий был написан на английском языке.
@@eugenbelczak7777grand duchy of Moscow не так уж сложно написать, верно?) Раз уж претендуешь на правду, так называй государства своими именами хотя бы, а не польской пропагандой 400-летней давности
@@user-lq3ye9yi1e ох уж эта «национальная гордость великороссов»! 😅 А «всея Великая, и Малая, и Белая» тоже каждый раз добавлять? Иначе никак нельзя? Ok! Grand Duchy of Moscow. Вам легче? Время не бережете ни своё, ни чужое. P.S. Dlaczego Polska nie daje żić państwu ciały czas? 🧐
@@eugenbelczak7777 не легче) исправь в оригинальном комменте, его редачить можно. Гордость тут слово не самое подходящее- просто вещи нужно называть своими именами, иначе искажается представление о них. И Польша мне жить никак не мешает, конкретно в этом случае она имеет отношение к слову вот и всё, не преувеличивай.
There is a lot of effort going into not calling the war with Ukraine a “territorial dispute.” Due to the fact that it minimizes the significance of the conflict. It’s an unprovoked invasion of a neighboring sovereign nation.
Unprovoked agression was/is mass murdering of Donetsk people 2014-... by daily heavy artillery shooting.
And Russian operation 2022-... is a lame policy to regret.
Define unprovoked
Great Video. One thing I see that couldn't miss is the Kaliningrad/Konieggsberg region. The exclave was once german and was ocupied by Soviet Union after WW2 who give some land to Poland and Lithuania. I saw some mentions of the Germans asking for the returning of the region, but the russians refused, claiming they're now russian( they moved the germans who live there and reassented with soviet russians) and more due to his military bases and warm waters port on the baltic sea.
Оккупировал? Как бы союзники (Британия и США) разрешили разделить Восточную Пруссию и не только СССР выгнал немцев, депортации немцев были и в Польше, и союзники этому не мешали
@@Hargoo_Blackпока была оккупация, потом аннексия
After the fall of the USSR Germany and Lithuania were offered Kaliningrad. Germany didn't accept the offer because they prioritized support for unification. Lithuania refused because there are mostly russians in Kaliningrad and integrating them would cause problems for lithuanian politics.
@@Axo1016The main reason Lithuania refused was it would have enabled Russia to arm and supply more soldiers within Lithuania/pump more Russian colonists in
I think Russia would agree to return the occupied territories of Germany, for the return of the 27 million people killed.
You have 3 errors in the video.
1. Russia did not claim and now does not claim the territories of Transnistria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
2. Russia DID NOT INVADE Transnistria.
Transnistria declared its independence in 1991, at the moment when ALL countries of the USSR declared their independence.
The troops that are currently there have ALREADY been there since the days of the USSR.
3. On March 31, 1991, Georgia declared its independence.
Already on December 22, 1991, an armed coup took place in Georgia and a civil war began.
Under these conditions, Abkhazia declared its independence on July 23, 1992.
On August 10, 1992, Georgia launched a military invasion of Abkhazia.
At the same time, Abkhazia was supported by independent Ichkeria (Chechnya). One of the well-known military leaders of Abkhazia is Shamil Basayev, later a Chechen militant and terrorist.
Until 1993, Russia supported Georgia in this conflict.
Moreover, on September 19, 1993, it was Russian troops who helped the legitimately elected President of Georgia Shevardnadze escape from Sukhum, where he was surrounded by Abkhaz troops and could be killed.
>it’s strange how they just ignored their own advice a decade later
As a russian: unfortunately it’s not strange if you know how mad mr. Putin (and I won’t call him president even if he still legally is one) became during that decade.
Also need to mention, that in 2010 Medvedev still was the President and it was more free and liberal period in Russian history comparing with the “decade later”
do a video on the china sea and the history of their claims
Russia had a dispute with Azerbaijan over a village but it was resolved back in 2000s and Russia had a Qabala Radar Station and it was closed in 2012. In addition, in Karabakh there are Russian “peacekeepers” and their role has been diminishing almost every day and due to leave in 2025 November
Уйдём и снова там война между Армении и Азербайджаном иза спор територи
They will not leave
"dispute" is an understatement
South Korea and Russia also have a border dispute.
Lmao that’s rich
Well they did settle that border dispute with North Korea which South doesnt accept, So in Russia and World's eye this isnt an issue...
Its not really a dispute you can barely call it that, the noktundo island cant be given to either korean government dew to obvious reasons
@@Silver_Prussian I think what’s so humorous about the absurdity of the claim is that it underscores just how many civilizations Moscow has wronged in their recent history. They constantly try to pretend they have no colonial legacy but are a people descended from Slavic Vikings who theoretically have a border dispute with Koreans halfway across the globe😂
@@dillamadukes21 its not even a dispute, the one in korea is kinda of complicated, its a small territory that was once an island, the russians dont give a sh*t about it and would give it back but they dont know to whom to give it ? North or South korea and what would the russians get out of it ?
In history its russia whos had to deal with other ,,civilisations" bullsh*t and at one point they decided that if they dont wanna be the ones conquered they need to conquer others first, thats how it was back then, you kill or get killed.
Which countries does Argentina dispute territories with?
United Kingdom obviously
@@93juanExactly. Thank you.
With Chile has not? If I remember, between the Cordillera, has some border disputes.
@@meam1146 Hmm. Interesting 🤔
Not sure about Argentina other then the Falklands, but I know Bolivia has huge border dispute when it comes to Chile.
Concerning the Kuril-Dispute: After WW2 it was agreed that Japan loses all territories aquired through war. Since the four islands in questions where colonized more or less in one fell swoop with the rest of Hokkaido (thus being administrated as one) , they should Dé Jure still remain with Japan. ( At least thats how Japan argues)
"Japan will also be expelled from all other territories which she has taken by violence and greed." -1943 Cairo Declaration
At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan on August 9, 1945.
Ignoring Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Pact that was still in force, Russia started an invasion of Kurile Islands on August 18 after Japan had accepted the Potsdam Declaration.
Russia then occupied all Northern Territories from August 28 to September 5, unilaterally "incorporating" them into the Soviet Union (deporting 17,000 Japanese living on the islands).
In 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty Japan renounced all right, title and claim to Kurile Islands, but the Four Northern Islands have never been included among the Kurile Islands. Furthermore, the Soviet Union refused to sign the San Francisco Peace Treaty.
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@@MrKim-kv2vvno debieron invadir y tomar manchuria. Su castigo? La anexion completa de las islas kuriles completas.
@@MrKim-kv2vv
in estonia it's not an everyday topic, but it's still something that has been talked about for all those 32 years in the context of a border treaty with russia. there's still no ratified one basically because of completely different understanding of history from both sides. russia recognised this territory as ours with tartu peace treaty in 1920 (when war of independence ended with estonian victory), that's the last document of reference and estonia also uses it. we don't officially even want that land back, we're just like "ok you said it was ours in the og document, but we're giving it up, can we just have a border treaty". russia however doesn't recognise it because they don't recognise the continuation of the estonian state (like the rest of the world does) since 1918 and soviet union as illegal occupation, for them estonia is as old as our regained independence only and everything before that "doesn't matter" and is even offensive to refer to so they removed their signature🙃 fun neighbour to have
1920 there was Civil War in Russia.
This treaty is bs
Now make USA territorial disputes.
@@bananananananananananaTrue, Canada isn't a real country.
The US doesn't bother annexing countries, it just topples their governments and replaces them with puppets (Iran, much of central and south America), or just fucks them up so badly they won't recover for decades (eg Iraq, Libya)
Canada, Haiti etc
Bro they occupied all of the best part of the continent already, is there anything else to claim
The so-called "EU".
putler - this is new Hitler
Cry about it
they dont compare
По большей части какая то дичь , потому что Грузия сама напала на осетию и Абхазию, япония по итогам 2 мировой отдала курилы, другое даже комментировать не буду
*Я даже про корею и казахтан не знал)
Královecký Kraj is disputed between Czechia and Russia.
Královecky Kraj is also known as Ostpreußen and Königsberg and was once German.
We're both beer nations, why not establish a Czechogerman collaboration state there? 😅
The soviet union and china used to have a dispute, and fought a war over this dispute in 1969. Has this dispute been resolved ?
Mainland China (PRC) yes, Taiwan (ROC) no because it claims all of that and Mongolia
Good video. russia is a terible naiborhood. I beleive you forgot about Chechnya.
If only the people in these could have a say about what country they really belong...
The people in Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk chose to be Russian, and look what that caused.
@@murilo7794 these people are funny. talking about democrazy but if theres legit democrazy its bad because its anti west
@@murilo7794yes..."people".
@@lmao.3661 why are you implying russians aren't people? I thought the narrative was that they didn't even support Putin...
Good luck getting Serbia to agree to such a thing.
Nice vid but Russia doesn't claim South. Ossetia and Abkhazia (dispute regions of Georgia), and most disputes with China are already settled
They used to have some disputes with China too
6,601,670 sq miles. How much bloody land do they need?
Olivenza
Cachemira
Ucrania
Rusia
Crimea
Bielorrusia
Minas
Breste
Polonia
Leópolis
Ivano-Franco
Moldavia
Rumanía
Bulgaria
Mar Negro
Sebastopol
Odesa
Mar de Azovo
Zaporoguia
Kiev (Kiovia, Quiovia)
Sumía
Jarcovia
Ñipró
Mariúpol
Volgogrado
Cur
Rusia
Finlandia (Finecia)
Estonia
Letonia
Lituania
Prusia Oriental
Checoslovaquia
Hungría
Turquía
Batumo
Georgia
Siria
Stalingrado (Estalingrado)
Rostov del Don (Rostovia)
río Volga
Rusia Blanca
Moscú
Leningrado
Carelia (RSS. Carelia)
Arcángel
Pereyáslav (Tratado de Pereyáslav, Pereyaslava, Pereyaslavia)
Budapest
Memorándum de Budapest (Memorando de Budapeste)
Doniesco
Jersón
Luganca
Transnistria (Cisdniestro, Cisñistro)
Chisináu (Quisina)
Tiráspol
Gagauzia (Gagaucia)
Georgia (Gregoria)
Abjasia
Osetia del Sur
Mar Caspio
Tiflis
Cequinval
Armenia
Azerbaiyán (Acerbiyán)
Noruega
Mar de Barents (Mar del Barentes
Mar Noruego
Svalbard (Esvalbardo)
península de Kola (Cola)
Japón
islas Curiles
Mar de Ojotsk (Ojós)
Mar de Japón / Oriental
Unión Soviética
Kunashiri / Kunashir (Cunacir)
Shikotan (Cicotán)
Etorofu / Iturup (Etorofo / Iturup)
Habomái
Océano Pacífico
Kamchatka (Canzasca)
Atlásov (Atlas, Altasovo(
Shumshu (Zumzu, Chumzu)
Antsiferova (Ansiferova)
Paramushir (Paramucir)
Makanrushi (Macanrucir)
Onekotán (Onecotán)
Jarincotán
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So basically Russia has a dispute with all the neighbouring countries, plus some of the of-neighbouring countries, in 3 continents.
Unlike all other "normal" states worldwide. Oh, wait...
If you watch the news in Japan especially in Hokkaido, you will see that the 4 islands (Etorofu, Shikotan, Kunashiri, Habomai) are always a part of Japan whenever the map of Japan is showed in the news. I do believe returning the islands to Japan will inevitably be better for the inhabitants and development of the islands since Russia cares so little in the far east except for Vladivostok and the oil field in northern Sakhalin.
Why would Russia essentially give their territory to japan? It has been under Russian control since 1945 and serves a strategic purpose in the region
Обломитесь!😂
@@raluxx13 because it's a dispute and claimed by Japan. Before the souring of relations between Japan and Russia due to the Ukrainian invasion, Russia and Japan have always been in talks about returning the islands to Japan, as recently as 2017 Russia made an offer of returning only the 2 smallest islands (Shikotan and Habomai) in exchange for Japan recognizing Russia's control of Etorofu and Kunashiri. Needless to say Japan declined that offer and still seeks the return of the 4 islands to this day.
@@emikominaJapan can claim whatever they want but will still never get it back
Maybe, give the 4 Islands to Ainu People as a gift, please.
not accurate preview: russia didn't claim Kharkiv oblast, they wanted to organise "referendum" but counter-offensive was faster
How many towns were captured since the start of this "counteroffensive"?
@@kxmapper are u a bot who's triggered by "ukrainian counter-offensive"or smth? in september 2022 Ukraine liberated pretty much all of Kharkiv oblast and north of Donetsk oblast
@@derevianne1108 I'm pretty sure Russian bots don't exist in English youtube. I am talking about the "counteroffensive" that's going now, not this thing in 2022 when our troops leaved the territory without a fight
@@kxmapper they wouldn't leave if there weren't any dangers from ukraine's army, lol, so it counts
oh, and did you forgot what happened in Lyman (Donetsk oblast)? they clearly were going to keep it, just as the left bank of the Oskol river (Kharkiv oblast)
In the 1950; s the USSR tried to take some parts of Turkey also, they have a long history of stealing land from other countries. Hopefully Turkey gets with it and starts sanctions on them also.
great
Interesting that you also added Karelia to the list, as this would imply an active dispute, however this is not the case. Both Finland and Russia agree on the current borders and no active disputes exist. Besides that, most Finnish people, except for fringe right-wing groups, but those exist in every country, also do not want Karelia back, even if it would be offered to them, as it is a poor and underdeveloped area of Russia, with a majority Russian population; in many ways it is comparable to Kaliningrad / Königsberg, as in, it is a territory that would cost a lot to integrate, develop and bring up to the standard of Finland / Germany, while not being an economically strong area that would be able to justify those spendings over the long-term.
Whenever there are talks about Karelia or Königsberg returning to Finland & Germany, it's not much more than a revanchist mind-game over the hypothetical redrawing of borders, whose permanence was agreed upon multiple decades ago, rather than having anything to do with reality and the actual facts on the ground.
Otherwise, great video, I enjoyed it.
only offended fascists want to return these territories. (actually, these territories used to be part of fascist countries)
Knowing which countries is/were destabilized by ruzzian wagner and other unofficial military companies would be interesting.
Aren't there also disputes with South Korea and China?
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What's Urakine?
Russia doesn't claim Abkhazia, South Osetia and Transnistria as its territory
They are all just russias attempt at trying to gain more territory by disguising it as an independence movement. Russia is the only country pushing for their independence
Of course, these are completely independent states. No
That's why it has military bases and tons of soldiers there? 😂
@@davidchabashvili6848The US has military bases and troops in Japan. Japan - US territory?
@@mxxxxxx1 Russia's plan is to annex our territory and claim them as their own (medvedev also confirmed it recently). This so called ,,protection of small nations" is their propaganda to jusyify invasion of ukraine and georgia.
But won't manage, we are not alone. Only thing that keeps russians alive are nukes. Wonder how long this False Threat to use them will last. ,,o let us do whatever we want or we'll nuke you" like they have monopoly of nukes or something.
if you lose a war.....you lose land. Its that simple. Japan, Finland, Germany you guys lost
If you don’t know the difference between LOSE and LOOSE, you lose the right to comment. It’s that simple.
@@bob494949 sorry Englishmen
Tell that to Palestine.
@@brandonlyon730 Politically driven double standards at it's finest. E.g: the Kremlin support Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas even though they've been under British rule for centuries yet won't give back the southern Kuril Islands back to Japan even though they're geographically closer to Japan than the Falklands are to Argentina and haven't been under Russian rule for even a century.
Essentially if you've got a permanent seat on the UN security council and have nukes you can freely screw up smaller countries (like Palestine) while playing the neocolonialism game against your rival powers while manipulating your "allies" until they're no longer useful.
Tl;dr: While gaining land via conquest seems simple, it's actually very complicated and cause long term geopolitical consequences (E.g: Palestine).
China disputes the treaties of the 1850s with Russia as China was coerced to sign then. Siberia was conquered by the Mongols. At the end of Mongol era, 'Tartars' governed Siberia and even Kazan. The Soviet Union had Tartar states. From the time of Peter the Great, Russia with superior weapons gradually conquered Tartar land west of the Urals, than east of the Urals. China needs resources including water, China wants Siberia and hopes to get it in a time of instability in Russia. In the 1990s China was not ready, but is largely ready now thanks to conflict with India, Taiwan and the South China Sea.
China don't want Siberia as the Chinesse don't want live in those cold lands. Taiwan in other side is an hystorical Chinesse land like certain parts of India. Also Chinesse don't need water resources since they owns Tibet which ocupess all Water reservoirs of China. Plus China aren't crazy to break their no limits of Frendship with Russia in order to counter the Western!
"Dispute" and "Occupied/Annexed" territories - 2 big differences as we say in Odesa. Don't mix cakes with shit 🤮
I suppose you mean no harm. However, please, don't call aggressive invasion of Russia - "territorial dispute". Hundreds of thousands of people (some I knew personally) died because of this war. It's no dispute - it's a genocidal war to destroy entire country's identity, language, culture and most importantly - Ukraine's future
Ukraine like had never bombed civilians in Donbas, and UN counted it (of yeah, you won't be a victim then huh)
Accusations go both ways! Stop lying.
@@igorfoxly2555the DPR and LPR killed just as many Ukrainian civilians as Ukraine killed Russian civilians
Artur is absolutely right. I was talking to a lot of Ukrainians here in Germany and all were talking about the same. The Russian "Orc-army" is systematically torturing, raping and killing civilians, they're bombing hospitals, kindergartens, schools and universities, attacking critical infrastructure for international food supply, spread anti-humans mines everywhere, attacked a dam and caused an ecological disaster and even give a shit about their own peoples lives.
Russia has turned since February 2022 in a fascist, genocidal, terror dictatorship, so it should be our duty to stop the mad men in the Kremlin.
Chamberlain tried to soften Hitler in giving up Czechoslovakia or allowed Hitler to join with Austria. We all know how it ended. There is no discussion or compromise possible with aggressive dictators, because the only language they understand is violence.
The two "alternative media" people below that comment should please educate themselves or just f*** off
@@nathanjohnwade2289 Here comes the Whataboutism Train! Choo Chooooooooo
They’re literally larger than Pluto, why do they want more land?! 😭
Maybe 🤔 there historical land's Russian empire?
@@malekaltayari3936 historically the Earth belonged to bacteria, return it to its rightful owners at once! Leave the planet, it's not yours historically! There are more bacteria than humans on Earth anyway!
@@malekaltayari3936then die for this measurable lands, kill 100k people on worthless borders, kill millions on siege of cities. I think that country who will do like that will be punished with undesirable and unstability future.
Почему бы и нет?
It's the same as asking: "what would the U.S need to print more money when debts is already up to their ears"
Japan-Russia territorial dispute is quite a mess.
1) Russia gave up Kuril for entire control of Sakhalin
2) USSR joined war against Japan exactly for those islands, however, Japan sees that agreement as "invalid" because it didn't sign it up (lol)
3) Japan also renounced the ownership of Kuril islands, however, it didn't say who now owns them. This little "hole" allows them to have a legal right to Kurils and is also supported by very those who had agreed to give it away to USSR
4) Declaration of 1956 states that Japan can get two out of 4 islands back after the peace would be made. Japan did so because USA decided to meet Chinese officials without consulting with Japan, basically a way of saying "we can do our own foreign policy too, if you don't regard us as allies". The government who made that declaration was thrown out and a new one started asking for all 4 islands before the peace agreement again
5) After the relations had worsened, USSR renounced the territorial dispute. After the fall of USSR, however, in exchange for loans a new Russian state admitted the issue again. Both sides agreed to use declaration of 1956 as a basis of talks
6) Up to 200X, the talks had no result and the issue was buried. Japan also stopped calling Kurils "occupied territories" up until 2022
7) There were some agreements made between Japan and Russia regarding cooperation on the Islands (agriculture, visits without visas, some businesses). However, mostly it was just a topic to start talks when the main theme of those said talks would be entirely something else (energy resources mostly)
8) In 2022 the talks were put to an end again because Russia views Japan as an "unfriendly" state (because Japan follows whatever USA's policy, which currently is an enemy to Russia), however, a lot of cultural and energy cooperation is still present since Japan doesn't want to end up in Germany's situation, having too much reliance on Saudi's resources
As a bonus, Japan wasn't really following the sanctions of 2014-2015. They've found A LOT of ways to bypass them and even started to strengthen the ties with Russia.
Russia needs Japan to fight off Chinese influence within itself, Japan needs Russia for it's resources and to not let China to control it, since that would put any of their regional hegemony ideas to an end.
Also, as an another bonus, whenever areas are "occupied" by Russian peacemakers currently, they aren't much different from Kosovo's situation. Most of the times those have exactly the same justification.The current international law was functioning only for a few years after it's establishment while everyone had their own internal problems to solve after WW2. Afterwards, we just started to have lots of armed conflicts instead of full-scale wars.
Who asked defeated Jap-nazies about anything? Pay and repent for 1937-1945.
Kharkiv oblast isn't disputed, is it?
Awsome video, straight facts as always. Yet, I bet there will still be angry people in the comments for stupid reasons.
Thanks!
You know it's not enough just to call opponents stupied.
There was one guy who also tried to unite the same language speaking group into one country. He also claimed to be a victim of unfair circumstances that the west brought upon them, as well as declare the whole world its enemy.
Tried but failed? It occurs that Japan is an example of this succeeding. Otherwise an independent Basque Country I guess.
just remember that the motives are completely different. Germany wanted revenge and believed that the Germans were an Aryan nation. Ukraine started the same Nazi course in 2014, so Russian-speaking regions are now at home,
Oh whose lame manipulations with the figure of one certain amature Austrian artist! Yep, modern Russian policy is bad but not because it's Russian but imperialistic. Unlike all the major players in the world. Oh, wait...
You forgot its dispute with China during the Soviet era
yea soviet dispute not russia
Hello there :)
In Europe, Russia wants to influence Eastern Europe the best it can, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia are best examples for it, in 2008, Georgia was very close to joining NATO, that's when Russia invaded them, to keep Georgia from joining any Western organization.
Bro really don't know how war with Georgia start💀💀💀
@@kurwaeboni What's your version pal? Georgia attacked Russia? Or tried to invade them? Or?
@@Nichollaa the war began after Georgian troops fired on Russian soldiers in the city of Tskhinval(South Ossetia), this was recognized even by the European Commission in 2009
@@Nichollaa try to open a history book before talking about "invasions"
@@lety0udown963 You and another buddy here are pair of brainwashed idiots, name the countris who see Abkhazia and South Ossetia independent? Name them? Nauru? Some tribal lands in the middle of nowhere? Ur funny
Да нет ни какого "международного права"!
Какое может быть международное право после Гренады, Панамы, архипелага Чагос, Майотты, Ирака и всего прочего?! Есть только право сильного.
@@SchwainermitaiVietnam, Iran, Argentina, Laos, Cambodia, was it all arranged by the USSR? murders in Algeria and Indochina. Murders in Indonesia, the USSR and Russia are to blame for all this.
And what kind of world law are we talking about if this law is so easily distorted, even by you? International rights do not apply to countries of the 3rd world, but only to Europe and the USA? Did I understand correctly?
Тише вата 😂
Once i was in Moldava speaking with a local, and he told me: "this is Russia" i said, but we are in Moldava, he seemed confused and said ah yeah, you are right.
That guy knows something. :)
Being serious, RF doesn't want any territories (they need to be feeded and sponsored). But somehow it happens that every single proud and "independent" peace of land in the world with no Russian control is immediatly sells itself for yet another one NATO base. Oh those proud states for sale!
Russia: are we neighbours?
Neighbour countries: uuum, yes?
Russia: Okay. Now your territory is occasionaly my historical territory.
Western Europe: We are not neighbors, are we? North, South America, Oceania and Australia, Asia and Africa : of course not. Western Europe: Well then it's time to capture more colonies and slaves...
@@Manuel_Fal_Conde Вот только те времена давно прошли, сейчас бывшие империи пали, а те страны даже если не являются суверенными, то в любом случае у них достаточно автономии
Fun Fact: At the past, Turkic peoples like Bulgars, Khazars, Pechenegs, Avars, Huns, Onogurs, Utigurs, Sabirs, Saragurs, Kutrigurs, Kipchaks, Cumans, Tatars, Ottomans etc. were fighting with each other for Ukraine. But now, Slavic peoples are fighting for it👀
And Crimea was a Greek colony before that as well (and there was also a Jewish state there as well).
@@allangibson8494 Crimea IS historically Greek. The only people there before the Greeks were the scythians who were nomadic and had left the area when the Greeks arrived. Greeks had the first real states in Crimea and held the area historically the longest.
@@TheHunterOfYharnam The Kyrmchaks might dispute the amount of time in place… (they were a Jewish Turkish people who were present when the Greeks arrived (and left)).
@@allangibson8494 The Greeks are still there. Most of the Greeks that left Crimea and ukraine as a whole is because of the Soviets. The Greeks were there since the time of Miletus and its colonies and remained till this day. But lets say the control of crimea by the greeks stopped with the fall of the byzantine empire. Still that means they controlled the area from the 6th centure bc till the 12th century Ad. That's 1800 years. Greeks had both the first states there and the area belonged to them for the most time. I do consider it as Greek as macedonia, crete, athens, sparta . epirus ,constantinople ect ect
@@TheHunterOfYharnamHistorically is irrelevant. There were people there before the Greeks and there are people there after them. Just another region the Turks drove the Greeks from ;)
Glad you included the Baltics. Russia has a brutal history of occupation in the region, but you forgot to include Lithuania.
Areas like Prussia (Kalingrad) for example used be centers of Lithuanian literature and culture up until the end of world war 2. It was historically known as Lithuania minor due to the large Prussian Lithuanian population.
Haha Russia didn't conquered 3/4 of the world and made their people slaves for them like f*k France and UK
ha-ha-ha, what a small Lithuania, go sleep it off, otherwise every nonsense is already climbing into your head.
If Lithuania will disagree with Russian Kaliningrad it should return its capital to Poland. And don’t forget that Wilno was a very important Polish cultural center.
Poland also partially wants Kaliningrad from Russia
Poland exist because the benevolence of Russia
@@DSanchez-bl4vv let me remind you Russia has only been conquered by one country, which is Poland
Poland already got half of Prussia. Lithuania should be given the remaining half
@@compatriot852 Prussia should've never existed, it was Polish land that got conquered so it is our righteous land anyway
Poland always tries to get a hold over Prussia, which was JUST BRIEFLY A VASSAL in the middle ages.
While that is ridiculous enough they always ignore the rightfull german claims of their prussian ancestors territory today living all over Germany.
Even today a lot of young Germans will not forget where their ancestors came from.
We need to get him to a million he deserves it
Agreed 🤝🏼 one of my favorite channels
Thanks! Ironically it gets more difficult as the distance to it grows shorter, but hopefully we'll get there eventually!
@@General.Knowledge It is strange that you did not mark Ichkeria
Calling regions of Ukraine that got invaded and forcefully occupied by Russia 'disputed territory' is about as cynical as calling it a 'dispute' if a burglar claimed a part of your house after breaking into it. There´s no dispute, it´s Ukrainian territory on which Russia has no claim and despite Russia´s pariah state ally North Korea noone recognizes the affected territory as Russian.
I agree, Russia is just doing its favorite thing - conquering territories. It is a pity that many people are still susceptible to Russian propaganda and have a positive attitude towards Russia
Ukraine belongs to Russia.
Crimea will be recognized as part of Russia post peace deal. Crimea is pro Russian and ethnic Russian prior to Russuan little green men entering it. Ukraine wont be allowed in NATO post peace deal. Russias never signing a deal until that's written into Ukraines constitution. Ukraine would be lucky to get Kherson Oblast, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk back in a trade. Maybe next time dont overthrow your Democratically elected head of state by threat of force when you dont like the Feb 21st deal both Yanukovychand opposition groups signed. The moment you did that was the moment Russia protected its strategic interest in Crimea. Actions have consequences. As a American myself I cant wait to cut all support to Ukraine. Only 1 more year before we kick Biden out and support evaporates.
It's still a disputed territory no matter what, the same for Kosovo, South China sea, Middle East regions, ...
@@randomstuffs8495 It´s wrong to call them like that because it gives legitimacy to the claims of the aggressor - which they legally simply don´t have. We shouldn´t use language which assigns an alleged right to aggressors for their aggression.
There are territories in the world that are indeed disputed - also legally. But for the mentioned Ukrainian regions this term is both legally and ethically wrong.
All the 'disputed territories' of Ukraine are territories that are occupied by the Russian invaders.
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The ones disputed with Ukraine like Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk are mainly ethnic Russian.
Actually you forgot to mention the biggest territorial dispute russia has: Outer Manchuria with China. China has a perpectual open policy to retake it enshrined in their constitution if i'm not mistaken. Outer Manchuria is serious business for China to the point in chinese maps the names of the cities there still have the old chinese names.
Uhhhh no its not mainly because it would be super fb for them to betray their main ally for territory they no longer hold which is also full of russians and also because of these
The Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation Between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation
In 2005 they signed a treaty that officialy emded the long dispute about about outer manchuria
It's not real, mainly because if any of the 2 does something stupid nukes will fly. They are content with the current situation.
It was proven dozens if times that those maps are fake, idk why people still believe in it.
I didn't know about that!
I believe it’s only the Republic of China (Taiwan) which claims those territories as it does not recognise the treaties signed between the PRC & Russia/USSR
You didn't mention the conflict Russia had with China in 1969 over the border along the Amur and Argun rivers.
…and everyone lived happily ever after.
I've never heard someone say "Kazakhstan" like that
Basically what Russia does after 1991:
- their russification in each of former USSR republics led to the fact that there are a lot of people who speak Russian
- today they claim that "you speak Russian = you are Russian" (try to use this logic in "you speak English = you are English" in case you are Canadian or even Indian, but you just know the language)
- the same with religion: "if you share Russian Orthodox church = you are Russian"
- so then they say "there is a lot of Russian in Ukraine, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldova, Kazakstan, etc. We need to "protect" them"
- they take a part of a land with their army
- they make up referendums with several collaborators who are ok with doing this because of sharing Russian ideas or just for money. And fake voting says: "the people of this territory want to unite with Russia". So their politics have this lame excuse "we just protect our people"
This scenario was played many times: in Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine. This method they use to bind countries and do not give them a chance to unite with the western world, like Europe or US. They don't give a shit about people (their houses might be destroyed, they might die from lack of medicine or hunger - real case from Donetsk). They don't even need resources or land or factories - they destroy everything, like a horde of orcs. What they need is only "greatness".
Actually, Ukraine was supported Russia in Moldova. Read Wikipedia first.
Read Wikipedia. Always. Before write something
river islands with china
No.
They have dispute with all their neighbors.
I was in Abkhazia
Donetsk and Luhansk are majority Russian-speaking while Kherson and Zaporizhzhia are majority Ukrainian-speaking. But all four are majority ethnically Ukrainian.
How to differ ethnically Ukrainian from Russian? Valentina Matvienko (Head of Senate) for example russian or ukrainian? And especially her children? Population wich live in established and builded by Russia cities, speak Russian language, belong to russian orthodox church, follow russian cultural heritage, - very soon may consider themself Russians. Especially if they become citizens of Russian state.
@fidel1803 Majority of Ukrainians that I talked to in Poland, that came here from Kherson were always ukrainians and were all against Russians taking over those lands. Stop spreading that bullshit about Russians there. Even in donetsk, lugansk, crimea those russia supporters were minority with help of good russian fsb and army (confirmed by them themselves). Look just at numbers of people that fled from there to Kiev causing massive housing crisis, and add millions that fled further to Europe. Ofc if you force people to leave, then opress leftovers, support minority and relocate other Russians there, there will start to grow the russian population.
The bad part is the attitude of a lot of the Western Ukrainians towards them as not being 'us' due to the usage of russian language and treating them as 'half russians ' basically. It's controversial but as working with them you can clearly see it, in arguments ect. Sadly western ukrainians are a lot of times filled with open hate towards both polish and russian people and it was like that before war in 2022. Now they get closer to Poland and polish people for obvious reason, hopefully they will change their attitude towards polish and russian speaking ukrainians as now they live and work together a lot of times.
@@fidel1803 Many years of assimilation were not wasted. Russia did everything to destroy the Ukrainian language and culture and impose everything Russian, and now it manipulates this by calling Russians and Ukrainians "one nation" because many Ukrainians speak Russian.
@@fidel1803 If someone has Ukrainian ancestry, heritage, culture, and traditions, and identifies as a Ukrainian, then they are a Ukrainian. Just like most Irish people don’t speak Irish, but still identify as Irish people based on their ancestry.
Crimea,Kherson,zaporizhia and donbass are part of Ukraine 🇲🇽🤝🇺🇦🤜🇷🇺
Trasnistria is Moldova 🇲🇩🤝🇲🇽🤜🇷🇺
Abkhazia and South Ossetia are Georgia 🇬🇪 🇬🇪🤝🇲🇽🤜🇷🇺
Kuril Islands are Japan 🇯🇵 🤝🇲🇽🤜🇷🇺
Hi slave of USA mechicano 🤡
I'm from Mars, Russia has territorial disputes against us and our friends from Venus.
Bro forgot outer Manchuria
Wow. Did not expect such a poor research from this channel. Lot's of misconception here:
1. Many of these conflicts are not based around Russians and Russian language. Gagauz people are ethnic minority in Moldova who speak Gagauz language. However, they along with Transnitria were equally oppressed by Moldova and were forced to adopt Romanian/Moldovan language that ignited the conflict.
2. The same applies to South Ossetia. More populous (and prosperous) North Ossetia is a part of Russia. The primary driver was reunification with North Ossetia.
3. As for Donetsk and Lugansk. Despite having around 50% of ethnic Ukrainians the regions are predominantly Russian speaking. As a result even Ukrainians from these parts of Ukraine do not always fit in. Therefore some of more nationalistic inhabitants of western Ukraine have a special slur for them: кацап (katsap). So naturally people in Donbass did not approve of forced separation from Russia.
And a bit of a curious personal note here. My ex is from Donetsk. She misses the "inhumane and oppressive to nations" USSR despite she was born long after the collapse. Why? Because being closely tied both to Ukraine and Russia means she had friends both in Russia and Ukraine. And back in USSR days nothing stopped one from jumping the train in Moscow and seeing friends in Kiev. And since the dissolution of SU they were basically forced to abandon close ones from either side, first by Ukraine, then by Russia.
"The people of Donbas did not approve of forced separation from Russia"
Independence referendum for the independence of the Ukrainian SSR from the Soviet Union
Donetsk: 83% in favor
Luhansk: 83% in favor
@@Owen_loves_Butters yep, and just a year ago Ukranian SSR voted for keeping USSR with 75% in favor
So yeah, this is a way more complex topic than the author of this video is trying to portray it
Before 2014 there was a train from Kharkiv to Moscov on the 1st platform with music before departure, a sign of mutual respect. its not like ethically russian people were opressed or anything, if putin didn't want to expand his country further both countries would still be friendly to eachother
@@jack_the_stripper I'm saying Donbas is not a separate identity from the rest of Ukraine. Most people there may speak Russian, but ethnic Russians aren't the majority there, not even close. Donetsk even had a sizable pro-Maidan movement. And speaking Russian is not unique in Ukraine, guess what language is predominantly spoken by the AFU.
@@Owen_loves_Butters that is something I do agree with
Politics aside, I really hate how this stupid war is severing ties between friendly people. Was really sad having to part ways with colleagues from Ukraine
Hope one day our people will be friends again
pro-Western sources always "forget" to say that after the coup d'etat, which violated the Constitution and brought the country under external influence and power of neo-Nazis, many regions did not agree with this. Donbass was not recognized by Russia for 8 years, until Kyiv abandoned the agreements and continued to shell Donbass. in Georgia, two regions were recognized as independent only after Saakashvili decided to take them back by force. If you start to study these territorial disputes in detail, it becomes clear what led to this bad advice from the American embassy.
vatnik, do you really believe in this?
then it turns out that the Russian government is also not legitimate if we recall the events of October 1993
@@andreivashenko5727Yes is legitimate, because the Soviet Union was disolved illegaly, and instead Russia should be the Soviet Union
@@Hernandez26382😂
@@mafelfz9815 a little face is your answer, your little knowledge of history is American Propaganda?