melvincarvalho on Nostr: “Most of the population in Crimea is Russian,” an advisor told Major in a ...
“Most of the population in Crimea is Russian,” an advisor told Major in a handwritten note.
They warned: “If Crimea becomes independent, Ukraine’s ability to control the Black Sea fleet – based at Sevastopol – goes with it.”
Gordon Barrass, a senior UK intelligence official, added: “The Ukrainians will try to prevent the referendum from being held…"
Major’s foreign policy advisor and former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite, wrote a confidential background note that would today be considered heretical.
“It is not entirely clear, even to the Ukrainians, still less to the Russians, that Ukraine is a real country,” Braithwaite noted.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/british-intelligence-predicted-ukraine-war-30-years-ago/
They warned: “If Crimea becomes independent, Ukraine’s ability to control the Black Sea fleet – based at Sevastopol – goes with it.”
Gordon Barrass, a senior UK intelligence official, added: “The Ukrainians will try to prevent the referendum from being held…"
Major’s foreign policy advisor and former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite, wrote a confidential background note that would today be considered heretical.
“It is not entirely clear, even to the Ukrainians, still less to the Russians, that Ukraine is a real country,” Braithwaite noted.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/british-intelligence-predicted-ukraine-war-30-years-ago/