Ukraine - Anatomy of a Crisis
Ukraine Interactive map - Ukraine Latest news on live map - liveuamap.com 03 March 2022 According to Steven Pifer (CISAC), t he conflict between Russia and Ukraine is about the Kremlin’s unwillingness to recognize Ukraine as a sovereign state. (A fnewsmedia) - The conflict between Russia and Ukraine stems from the collapse of the Soviet Union Ukraine, a former Soviet country, possessed the world’s third-largest atomic arsenal when the Soviet Union broke up in the early 1990s. What’s at stake is clearly defined by the United States and Russia. Russia provided the US with a list of requests, some of which were non-starters for the US and its partners in NATO. Putin requested that NATO halt its eastward expansion and refuse Ukraine membership, as well as a reduction in force deployment in countries that joined after 1997, which would set the clock back decades in terms of Europe’s security and geopolitical alignment. According to analysts, Putin’s attitude toward the United States
