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Not a crisis nor civil war, but a foreign aggression: Why did Russia attack Ukraine in 2014?

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Not a crisis nor civil war, but a foreign aggression: Why did Russia attack Ukraine in 2014?

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On 18 March 2014 Vladimir Putin, the President of the Russian Federation triumphantly declared the “reunification of the Crimea” with Russia. However, this was not the end, but just the beginning of overambitious plans to annex the whole South-Eastern Ukraine with its large industrial centers and mainly Russian-speaking population. The small groups of the Russian secret forces and paid “political tourists” tried to orchestrate a series of separatist pro-Russian meetings in a number of cities in the South-Eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian society faced with systematically planned foreign aggression, camouflaged as a “civil war” of Russian-financed, Russian-armed and directly Russian-led “miners and tractor-drivers” against a “fascist anti-democratic junta” in Kyiv. What in Kremlin’s language came as a “reunification” and “civil war”, for the rest of the world became a blatant violation of international law and meets the definition of international aggression adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1974. Thus, the most fundamental question remains not who initiated yet another protracted armed conflict in the post-Soviet space, but reasons lying behind it. The article attempts to look into what might be the driving force of the Russian aggression in Ukraine.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Crimea, Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia, Terrorism

Kaynakça

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Kaynak Göster

APA
Morkva, V. (2022). Not a crisis nor civil war, but a foreign aggression: Why did Russia attack Ukraine in 2014? Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 23(1), 71-88. https://doi.org/10.17494/ogusbd.984437
AMA
1.Morkva V. Not a crisis nor civil war, but a foreign aggression: Why did Russia attack Ukraine in 2014? Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2022;23(1):71-88. doi:10.17494/ogusbd.984437
Chicago
Morkva, Valeriy. 2022. “Not a crisis nor civil war, but a foreign aggression: Why did Russia attack Ukraine in 2014?”. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 23 (1): 71-88. https://doi.org/10.17494/ogusbd.984437.
EndNote
Morkva V (01 Haziran 2022) Not a crisis nor civil war, but a foreign aggression: Why did Russia attack Ukraine in 2014? Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 23 1 71–88.
IEEE
[1]V. Morkva, “Not a crisis nor civil war, but a foreign aggression: Why did Russia attack Ukraine in 2014?”, Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, c. 23, sy 1, ss. 71–88, Haz. 2022, doi: 10.17494/ogusbd.984437.
ISNAD
Morkva, Valeriy. “Not a crisis nor civil war, but a foreign aggression: Why did Russia attack Ukraine in 2014?”. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 23/1 (01 Haziran 2022): 71-88. https://doi.org/10.17494/ogusbd.984437.
JAMA
1.Morkva V. Not a crisis nor civil war, but a foreign aggression: Why did Russia attack Ukraine in 2014? Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 2022;23:71–88.
MLA
Morkva, Valeriy. “Not a crisis nor civil war, but a foreign aggression: Why did Russia attack Ukraine in 2014?”. Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, c. 23, sy 1, Haziran 2022, ss. 71-88, doi:10.17494/ogusbd.984437.
Vancouver
1.Valeriy Morkva. Not a crisis nor civil war, but a foreign aggression: Why did Russia attack Ukraine in 2014? Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi. 01 Haziran 2022;23(1):71-88. doi:10.17494/ogusbd.984437