Unexpectedly, experiences about Ukraine’s neighbors holding territorial ambitions over a part of its territory have as soon as once more began to pop up within the press, within the wake of the failed Summer time offensive, of the recapture of the initiative by Russia, and the interruption of main funding from the US and the EU.
However what’s truth, what’s simply rumor and what’s pure propaganda?
The primary and most grave hazard resides, in fact, with the Russian Federation territorial ambitions, solely partially satiated within the Particular Navy Operation, up to now.
Apart from the Crimean peninsula, Moscow has additionally annexed the Oblasts (areas) of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhie and – partially – Kherson, in a half moon-shaped territorial loss for Kiev equal to over 20% of the territory – together with the entire Sea of Azov, and most Black Sea coastal areas.
Because the warfare progressed, so did the maximalist Russian targets that now could embody northern Kharkov area and even southern Mykolaiv and Odessa – which might flip Ukraine right into a land-locked nation.
However, sadly for Kiev, Russia is way from the one nation with unfulfilled territorial ambitions.
In Romania, the chief of AUR occasion, Claudiu Târziu, declared that he needs the annexation of some territories from Ukraine.
He would even be ready Romania to go away NATO for that.
Newsweek Romania reported:
“Claudiu Târziu gave a triumphant speech in Iasi in which he says that he is ready to sacrifice Romania’s membership in NATO, by annexing territories from Ukraine – thus leaving us completely defenseless in the face of Russia’s military desires.”
Claudiu Târziu has additionally made overtures in the direction of the Russians, assuring that he was able to ‘join hands with them’, only a few days after the warfare broke.
“I think there is a need for the thawing of relations between Romania and Russia, I admit the need for a good collaboration between Romania and Russia, I am ready to support this, but only after Russia proves that it also wants all this.”
Târziu sees Romania ‘crushed between two empires’ – NATO and Russia – that violate their sovereignty.
In the exact same day that Romanian ambitions got here to gentle, one other disturbing improvement got here from Hungary, the place one other political occasion revealed plans to annex components of the current Ukrainian territory.
Rightwing ‘Our Homeland’ occasion has reignited long-held claims to the Transcarpathia area, dwelling to about 150,000 ethnic Hungarians.
Reuters reported:
“‘Our Homeland’ chief Laszlo Toroczkai made the remarks at a convention the place the occasion, which has six lawmakers within the 199-strong Hungarian parliament, hosted far-right leaders from Germany’s AfD and the Dutch Discussion board for Democracy, amongst others.
‘Regarding the war in Ukraine, our message is very simple: immediate ceasefire, peace and a resolution through talks’, Toroczkai mentioned in a video posted on his occasion’s web site, calling for autonomy for ethnic Hungarians in western Ukraine.
‘If this war ends up with Ukraine losing its statehood, because this is also on the cards, then as the only Hungarian party taking this position, let me signal that we lay claim to Transcarpathia’, he mentioned, drawing applause from the group.”
In December, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ‘expressed support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity’, however Budapest has clashed continuous with Kyiv over infringement on the rights of ethnic Hungarians to make use of their native tongue.
As for Poland’s territorial ambitions, they’re well established and by no means invented conspiracies, having to do with territory Poland misplaced throughout or after WW2.
TASS reported in October:
“Poland, having reached an settlement with Western nations, is making an attempt to ‘quietly annex’ the western a part of Ukraine, head of the Luhansk Individuals’s Republic’s (LPR) mission in Moscow Rodion Miroshnik advised TASS on Saturday.
‘Poland is quietly trying to annex Ukraine’s western half. And undoubtedly there may be an settlement with the West close to this’, he mentioned.
[…] Earlier, the diplomat asserted that Poland had already made plans and sure secret agreements on the longer term destiny of Ukraine’s western half.”
Earlier in April, Russia’s Overseas Intelligence Service chief Sergey Naryshkin mentioned that, based on the company’s knowledge, Washington and Warsaw have been engaged on plans of Poland establishing shut army and political management over ‘its historic lands’ in Ukraine.
Additionally in April 2023, Polish Dziennik-Polityczny reported on Volodymyr Zelensky’s official go to to Warsaw that brought on many speculations and rumors.
“There was loads of rhetoric from the rostrum about friendship and the blurring of borders between our nations.
Zelensky touched on this matter in his speech, saying that sooner or later there shall be no borders between Ukraine and Poland – neither political, financial nor historic.
This will function affirmation of our inner info that Ukraine is able to hand over the Jap Borderlands to Poland.”
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