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Jan 23, 2022 · I think, broadly speaking, Putin really is looking to keep Ukraine in Russia's orbit. After 20 years of him being in power, he's thinking about his legacy, and he wants to be the leader who return ...
Oct 20, 2017 · Like Putin many decades later, the Bolsheviks went to great lengths to hide the true nature of their policy in Ukraine. During the civil war, they disguised their Red Army as a “Soviet Ukrainian ...
Feb 24, 2023 · MORE: Russia Begins Invasion of Ukraine. Prior to the invasion, Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the Russian-backed breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, both located in the ...
Feb 24, 2022 · Mr Putin said Russia was intervening as an act of self-defence. Russia did not want to occupy Ukraine, he said, but would demilitarise and "de-Nazify" the country.
Dec 7, 2021 · History reveals what Putin really wants to do in Ukraine. At the root of the escalating Russian-Ukrainian conflict lies a contested past. Kathryn David is the Mellon assistant professor of Russian ...
May 3, 2022 · What Putin is trying to achieve in Ukraine is to create it as the centerpiece of a special sphere of influence, not recreating the former Soviet Union, but having a group of states along its periphery that are subordinate in their foreign policies and in their economic relationships to the Russian Federation. Ukraine shares a long border with ...
Jul 11, 2023 · Why Russia wants to block Ukraine from Nato. Tensions along Russia’s border with Ukraine finally erupted into open warfare on 24 February 2022 as Vladimir Putin announced a “special military ...
