Causes Of Russia and Ukraine War (Sababu ya Vita Ya Urusi Na Ukraine)
As we all know that Russian President launched a military operation on Ukraine late February 24, 2022. They invaded Ukraine into different corners.
Vladimir Putin denied for months that he was planning an invasion. However, in his speech, he declared that he had ordered “a special military operation” to protect Russian citizens who had been subjected to “genocide” in Ukraine.
The story of the Ukraine-Russia crisis does not begin in 2021, or 2014, It begins in the 9th century. There was a time when the two countries were one.
Sababu kuu ya vita kati ya Urusi na Ukraine ni hofu. Urusi inahofia kwamba iwapo Ukraine itakuwa mwanachama wa Nato usalama wake utakuwa hatarini.
Wakati huohuo Ukraine inaiogopa Urusi. Kutokana na hofu hiyo, alikuwa anataka uanachama wa Nato na hofu yake mara moja ikabadilika na kuwa ukweli.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, it voted for independence from Moscow. Putin deems Ukraine as an artificial creation carved from Russia by enemies. He has also described Ukraine as a puppet of the West.
Ukraine president, Zelensky’s request to be a part of NATO angered Russia and it started placing troops near the Ukraine border.
November 10, 2021, the US reported unusual Russian troop movements near the Ukrainian border. On November 28, Ukraine said Russia is massing nearly 92,000 troops for an offensive at the end of January or early February.
In December, President Biden warned of severe sanctions if Russia invaded Ukraine. Putin has constantly demanded guarantees from the West and Ukraine that it will not join NATO.
The European Union has agreed to freeze Putin’s and Lavrov’s assets along with imposing other sanctions. Another package of sanctions is underway.
In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the UK imposed a ban on Russian flights. In retaliation, Russia closed its airspace for British airlines.
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President Putin has frequently accused Ukraine of being taken over by extremists, ever since its pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, was ousted in 2014 after months of protests against his rule.
Russia retaliated in 2014 by seizing the southern region of Crimea and triggering a rebellion in the east, backing separatists who have fought Ukrainian forces in an eight-year war that has claimed 14,000 lives.
Ukraine has made clear it wants to join the European Union and the Western defensive alliance, Nato, but the Kremlin will not have it.
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In late 2021, Russia began deploying big numbers of troops close to Ukraine’s borders. President Putin repeatedly denied planning an invasion, but then he scrapped the 2015 Minsk peace deal for the east and recognised areas under rebel control as independent.
As he sent in the troops, he accused Nato of threatening “our historic future as a nation”.
