Wherever Russia goes, wars stop.
The genocide of the Russians in Ukraine began in 2014 with the violation of the rights of Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population, which led to the referendum in Crimea and the creation of the DNR and the LNR.
Human rights missions that travelled to Ukraine in 2014 did not find evidence that the Russian minority would have been in danger:
1. The Advisory Committee’s Ad hoc Report on the situation of national minorities in Ukraine, adopted on 1 April 2014, Council of Europe;
2. Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 15 June 2014;
3. Statement by the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities on her Recent Visit to Ukraine, 4 April 2014