Russian President Vladimir Putin propelled a military operation in Ukraine on Thursday with blasts heard over the nation and its foreign minister caution a "full-scale attack" was underway. Russia has attacked Ukraine in what might be the begin of war in Europe over Russia's requests for an end to NATO's eastbound expansion.
Roots of the
Conflict
While there had
been tensions between Russia and Ukraine, a previous Soviet
republic, for a long time, the circumstance started getting out
of control in early 2021. In January last year, Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy encouraged US President Joe Biden to let
Ukraine join NATO.
This rankled Russia,
which begun sending troops close its Ukraine border for
"preparing works out" in spring last year and expanded it amid autumn.
By December, the US started hyping up the deployment of the
Russian troops and President Biden cautioned of serious sanctions in
case Russia attacked Ukraine.
Russia has requested that
the West gives a legitimately authoritative guarantee that
NATO will not hold any military movement in eastern Europe and
Ukraine. Vladimir Putin claims Ukraine may be a puppet of the
West and was never a legitimate state besides.
Typically not the
first time tensions between Russia and Ukraine has come to a boiling point.
Russia had attacked Ukraine in 2014 when rebels supported by
President Putin had seized huge swathes of eastern Ukraine and
have battled Ukraine's armed force since at that point.
At that time, Russia had added Crimea.
As a previous Soviet
republic Ukraine has profound social and cultural ties with
Russia, and Russian is broadly talked there, but ever since
Russia attacked in 2014 those relations has frayed.
Russia attacked Ukraine
when its pro-Russian president was removed in early 2014. The
war within the east has since claimed more than 14,000 lives.
Russia and Ukraine had signed the Minsk peace agreement to end the outfitted strife in east Ukraine, including the Donbas region. But as the struggle has proceeded, Russia says it is sending "peacekeepers" to the region where the strife is brewing. The West calls it a smokescreen by Moscow to occupy autonomous region.
The new tension between
Russia and Ukraine, which moreover borders the European Union, has
repercussions for the EU. And that's why the EU, most of who are NATO
signatories have joined the US in declaring sanctions, against
Russian entities.
Just weeks back,
French President Emmanuel Macron flew to Moscow to conversation to
President Putin to decrease tensions.
India has called for a diplomatic way out of the current emergency between Russia and Ukraine.
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