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anti-Russian regime joins NATO and
forces, but Donetsk and Luhansk voted
government has declared martial law
places short-range ballistic missiles and
for independence on May 12 despite an
and enacted curfews, and Russia has
cruisemissilesinKyivwithsupportfrom
attack by Ukrainian government forces.
launched missiles across Ukraine,
the West, Russia will immediately face
The war in Donbas has caused more
including the capital Kyiv. In response,
a huge military threat. The desperate
than 13,000 deaths and large numbers
when Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
reason Russia wants to occupy Ukraine
of refugees. The Donbas War is still
Lavrov began a speech at a high-level
liesingeopoliticalfactors.
ongoingandescalatedwiththeoutbreak
meeting of the United Nations Human
ofthe2022RussianinvasionofUkraine.
Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland,
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into neighboring countries is interpreted
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asexpansionism.Putin,forexample,has
denied that Ukraine is an independent
Since October 2021, Russia has
country. In Putin¡¯s speech to the
applied military pressure on Ukraine
public on February 21, 2022, Putin
by gathering about 130,000 Russian
called Ukraine ¡°a colony led by a
troops near the Ukrainian border. As
puppet regime¡± and called Ukrainians
Russia escalated tensions by showing
¡°Russians,¡± denying the sovereignty of
troop gathering, Ukraine also raised an
Ukraine.Astheanti-Russiangovernment
army and deployed troops to the border
implemented pro-Western policies,
to prepare for war. Then, from the end
Russia tried to suppress Ukraine by
of January 2022, tensions between the
force. Some hard-line Russians claim
two sides reached a peak. The situation
that Ukraine is an inseparable border
becamemoreseriousasNATOdeployed
regionofRussia,whichis¡°LittleRussia.¡±
¡ãThedistancebetweenKyivandtheMoscowis
troops, the US set an invasion date of
However, Olena Shchegel, a professor of
close.
February 16, and repeated statements
the Department of Ukrainian studies at
predicted that an invasion would occur
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
The biggest reason Russia is obsessed
within days. In fact, US ambassador to
(HUFS), said, ¡°The expression ¡®Little
with Ukraine is that the distance
the Organization for Security and Co-
Russia¡¯ was coined during the Russian
between Kyiv and Moscow is too close.
operation in Europe (OSCE) Michael
Empire, and Ukrainians never called
The straight-line distance between Kyiv,
Carpenter said at the OSCE meeting on
themselves ¡®Little Russians.¡¯ Ukrainians
the capital of Ukraine and Moscow, the
February 18, ¡°The number of Russian
get angry when they hear about Little
capitalofRussiaisabout750km,andit
troops gathered at the border with
Russia.¡± As a result, Russia is using
is about 500 km from the northernmost
Ukraine increased from about 100,000
nationalism to expand its power and
point of Ukraine. This is much shorter
on January 30 to 169,000 to 190,000
protectthenationfromtheWest.
than the distance between Beijing
now.¡± In the end, despite the diplomatic
and Seoul, and it is a huge security
intervention efforts of Germany and
burden for Russia. Contrary to the pre-
France, at the dawn of February 22,
Euromaidan regime, the majority of
2022, Russian President Vladimir
Ukraine post-Euromaidan are anti-
Putin authorized the Russian invasion
Russian and pro-Western regimes. If the
of Ukraine, condemning Ukraine, the
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