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Feb 24, 2023 · A principal demand of Russia is to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO, a military alliance between 29 European countries and two North American countries dedicated to preserving peace and...
- How The Buildup Began
- A Pretext For A Power Grab?
- Why Ukraine?
- Why Now?
- So What Is Putin's Endgame?
In late 2021, military analysts helped draw the world’s attention to a concerning picture developing on Ukraine’s borders: Russia was massingthousands of troops around its neighbor. A similar buildup, although on a smaller scale, first unnerved the world in April. Moscow withdrewafter weeks of tensions. But as the Russian military buildup intensifi...
A significant spike in shelling in eastern Ukraine, where Moscow-backed separatists had been fighting Ukrainian forces since 2014in a conflict that cost an estimated 14,000 lives, intensified concerns that the Kremlin was trying to create a pretext for an attack. The industrial region of Donbas, internationally recognized as Ukrainian but partly co...
Russia and Ukraine have been linked by a common history since the ninth century, when Kyiv became the capital of the ancient state of Rus. They also have closely related languages, with many people in the two countries sharing strong family ties. In the early 20th century, the two nations and nearby Belarus formed the Slav core of the communist Sov...
The Kremlin’s official line amid the standoff centered on Putin’s demandsfor security guarantees that would include a stop to NATO’s expansion eastward and giving Russia a formal veto on Ukraine ever joining the military alliance. It also said it wanted NATO to roll back its military deployments in the region. The demands would significantly redr...
Experts and military analysts have been speculating for months on whether Putin intends to engage in a full-blown war with Ukraine. Now that he’s launched his invasion, the lingering question is, where will he stop? Some observers and U.S. defense officials have suggested Putin might go further and try to remove the current democratically elected p...
- Yuliya Talmazan
Mar 1, 2022 · Why is Ukraine so vulnerable? Though given money and arms by the West, Ukraine is not actually a NATO member, and so cannot count on the direct military support of the United States and its...
- Patrick Kingsley
Mar 30, 2022 · Evgeniy Maloletka/AP. 9 big questions about Russia’s war in Ukraine, answered. Addressing some of the most pressing questions of the whole war, from how it started to how it might end. By...
Mar 8, 2022 · On 24 February 2022, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his army to forcefully cross the border and invade neighbouring Ukraine. One year later, the war is still going on, and millions of...
Feb 24, 2022 · The Invasion of Ukraine: How Russia Attacked and What Happens Next. Explosions thundered in Ukrainian cities shortly after President Vladimir V. Putin declared the start of a “special...
2 days ago · The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official...
