The war in Ukraine began almost 30 years after the brutal genocide of Azerbaijani civilians by Armenian occupiers and separatists in the Karabakh town of Khojaly. One of the organizers of the Khojaly genocide, who would later become president of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, actually confessed that the brutal violence against the civilian population was consciously planned by the organizers of the genocide, and was not an "accident":

"Before Khojaly, the Azerbaijanis thought they were being played. The Azerbaijanis thought that the Armenians were people who could not raise their hand against the civilian population. We had to turn this around," Sargsyan admitted cynically.

Indeed, before the terrible events of 25 to 26 February 1992 in Khojaly, many Azerbaijanis did not yet believe that Armenians, whom they had until recently perceived as good neighbours with whom they had lived side by side for generations, would kill them. That is why they were in no hurry to leave their homeland, despite the danger of death.

Likewise Georgians of Sukhumi, Gagra and other cities and villages of Abkhazia did not believe that their neighbours - Abkhazians, Armenians, Russians would kill and expel them. Similarly, until February 24th 2022 most Ukrainians simply did not believe that the Russians, their brotherly people (or rather the politicians that run them) would raise their hand against them and destroy the civilian population.

However, as it turns out, if someone wants a foreign land without the indigenous population, nothing can stop the organisers of monstrous plans of ethnic cleansing. And brutality against the civilian population has been planned from the outset.

It is no accident that when the hostilities started on February 24th, 2022, the representative of Russia to the UN was addressed by the representative of Ukraine: "Putin has declared war. Say on the record that your armed forces are not bombing Ukrainian cities. Go, call Lavrov. We will pause", but he replied: "I will not wake up Lavrov. This is not war, this is a military operation.

Indeed, Russian official propaganda does not call the aggression against Ukraine a war, but a "special operation". This is essentially an answer to what is really happening in Ukraine right now.

This is a terrible "special operation". A special operation to "cleanse" the Ukrainian land from the indigenous Ukrainian population. Undoubtedly, the Armenian lobby, whose representative Lavrov heads the foreign ministry of the aggressor state of the Russian Federation, took part in its development.

In Ukraine today, the Armenian terrorists are again using the "know-how" of destroying and intimidating the civilian population with a view to their total expulsion, which they have already "tested" on the peaceful Azerbaijanis in Khojaly and the peaceful Georgian population in Sukhumi.

Pictures of the barbaric shelling, bombing and rocket attacks on peaceful residential buildings in the Ukrainian towns of Borodyanka, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Akhtyrka, Mariupol, Bucha and Irpen have been circulated around the world.

Moreover, the strikes are carried out in areas where there are no military facilities. The punishers' calculations are clear and, alas, they partially achieve their goals. A mass exodus of the population abroad has begun in Ukraine.

Indeed, if there is no guarantee that one day your house will not turn into a smoking wreck, people are afraid to stay there and fear for their children. People have realised that they are no longer being "joked about" and that the extermination of the civilian population is real. As a result, there is a mass "exodus" of Ukrainians from Ukraine. Traffic jams on Ukraine's borders with Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova stretch for tens of kilometres in some places.

Since the start of hostilities, 2 million refugees have already left Ukraine and there is no sign of this process slowing down. On the contrary, half-empty towns and cities remain in the "frontline" zone. Many districts of the Ukrainian capital Kiev look unaccustomedly "empty" today, with a huge number of people at the railway stations where the "evacuation" trains depart in a westerly direction. There are even more people at the Kharkiv railway station. The population is anxious to leave the cities before they are finally encircled.

The advance of the Russian occupying forces in Ukraine has stopped in some places and even "humanitarian corridors" have been opened from the encircled cities. And both in the direction of the unoccupied territory of Ukraine and in the direction of the Russian Federation and Belarus. The main thing is that the occupiers "urge you to leave your homeland". In other words, there is a "special operation" to "cleanse" Ukraine of its Ukrainian population.

The fate of refugees from Ukraine is unenviable. No matter how hard other countries try to help them, there are too many of them, and while Azerbaijanis and Georgians have found shelter in their own, Azerbaijani and Georgian cities, Ukrainian refugees, if the Russian occupation of Ukraine continues, could lose their homeland altogether.

Certainly the Ukrainian "cleansing of the land of the natives" is somewhat different from what has been organised in Karabakh and Abkhazia. It is not exactly ethnic or total. Whereas in Karabakh in Azerbaijan the Armenian occupiers expelled every last Azerbaijani, and in Sukhumi and Abkhazia almost all Georgians were expelled (some were later allowed to return to the Gali district), in Ukraine part of the population still remains.

The occupiers have planned and announced so-called "denazification" in case they succeed in establishing their control over Ukraine. As a result, all the men who have now enlisted in the self-defence (territorial defence) units are at risk. The extent of the expulsion of Ukrainians from Ukraine is not yet known. 

However, it is in the interests of all peoples of the world to stop this terrible "special operation" and do everything to stop the Russian Federation's aggression against the sovereign state of Ukraine. After all, if the Russian Federation succeeds and gets away with this occupation, there is no doubt that ethnic cleansing will continue in any of the countries of the former USSR.

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