ICrimea ingenye yezindawo ezazithandwa kakhulu e-Ukraine ngamaholide olwandle kwaze kwaba yilapho iRussia ihlasela futhi yayithatha - ngokwesekwa yizakhamuzi eziningi zaseCrimea. IRussia yathatha iCrimea e-Ukraine ngo-2014.
ICrimea yahlala iyindawo ethandwa izivakashi kubantu base-Ukraine, kodwa nakakhulu kwabavakashi baseRussia. Amaphasipoti abantu base-Ukrainian ukuze bavakashele le ndawo yokuphumula egudle ulwandle ayiphoqelekile.
Isifunda soLwandle Olumnyama (i-Ukraine, i-Russia) nayo ibe yindawo eshisayo yokwanda kwezinga phakathi kwalawa mazwe womabili.
NgeSonto i-Russian Federal Security Service ithi inobufakazi bokuthi i-Ukraine inezingxabano phakathi kwemikhumbi yaseRussia neyase-Ukraine oLwandle Olumnyama.
Le nhlangano, eyaziwa ngokuthi i-FSB, esitatimendeni sangeSonto ebusuku yathi "kunobufakazi obungephikiswe bokuthi iKiev yalungiselela futhi yahlela ukuchukuluza ... oLwandle Olumnyama. Lezi zincwadi zizodalulwa maduze nje.”
Umbutho wamasosha ase-Ukraine uthi imikhumbi yaseRussia idubule yashaqa imikhumbi yayo emibili ngeSonto kulandela isigameko esenzeke ngaseCrimea, iMoscow eyasithatha eKiev ngo-2014. Kuphinde kwashaqwa isikebhe.
Umkhulumeli woMnyango Wezangaphandle WaseRussia uMaria Zakharova uthe kuFacebook ukuthi lesi sigameko sikhombisa ukuziphatha kwabantu base-Ukraine: ukuchukuluza, ingcindezi nokusola ulaka.
I-Ukraine ithi isibalo sezikebhe ezishaywe wumlilo waseRussia sesinyuke safinyelela kwezimbili, kwalimala abasebenzi ababili, kanti yomibili imikhumbi ishaqwe yiRussia.
Umbutho wamasosha ase-Ukraine wenze lesi simemezelo esitatimendeni ngeSonto. I-Russia ayizange iphawule ngokushesha mayelana nezimangalo.
Emahoreni ambalwa ngaphambili, i-Ukraine ithe umkhumbi waseRussia oqaphe ogwini ugasele esikebheni samasosha asogwini sase-Ukraine, okwadala umonakalo ezinjinini nasezikhunjini zomkhumbi. Lesi sigameko senzeke ngeSonto ngesikhathi imikhumbi emithathu yase-Ukraine isuka e-Odessa oLwandle Olumnyama ilibangise eMariupol oLwandle lwase-Azov, idlula eKerch Strait.
I-European Union inxuse iRussia ne-Ukraine ukuthi "zibambe ngamandla ukuze zinciphise" isimo oLwandle Olumnyama.
I-Ukraine ithi imikhumbi yayo emithathu ishaqwe unogada ogwini lwaseRussia, okuhlanganisa nemibili eyadutshulwa, kwalimala nabasebenzi ababili. I-Russia isole i-Ukraine ngokulungiselela kanye nokuhlela “ukucasuka”.
I-EU, esitatimendeni esivela kumkhulumeli wezangaphandle uMaja Kocijanic, iphinde yathi ilindele ukuthi iRussia "ibuyisele inkululeko yokudlula" eKerch Strait ngemuva kokuthi iMoscow iyivimbile.