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Feb 24, 2022 · Feb. 24, 2022 1:13 PM PT. Europe is facing its greatest security crisis in decades after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Thursday. The conflict is threatening to destabilize...
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Calls for war-crime investigations grew as Ukrainian and...
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Mar 1, 2022 · Why do Russia, the U.S. and Europe care so much about Ukraine? Both Russia and the West see Ukraine as a potential buffer against each other.
- Patrick Kingsley
Feb 9, 2024 · In recent years, successive Ukrainian governments have forged closer ties with the European Union and NATO, then sidled back toward Russia, and edged away again. With war, Putin means to settle...
Feb 24, 2022 · The increasingly complicated Russia-Ukraine crisis, explained. How the world got here, what Russia wants, and more questions, answered.
- 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 30, 2022 · Russia’s invasion has gone awry for two basic reasons: Its military wasn’t ready to fight a war like this, and the Ukrainians have put up a much stronger defense than anyone expected.
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Feb 23, 2022 · Why Ukraine? Learn the history behind the conflict and what Russian President Vladimir Putin has said about his war aims. The stakes of Putin’s war. Russia’s invasion has the potential to...
