Why are Russia and Ukraine in conflict?

Why Russia and Ukraine are in conflict has both an ethnic legacy and a political conflict.

Why? Read on, it's a bit long haha.

One, Russia and Ukraine two countries of the split

Russia and Ukraine belong to the same East Slavic ethnic groups, the word "Ukraine" was first seen in the "Rus' Historical Records" (1187) meaning "borderland The term "Ukraine" was first used in the Chronicle of Rus' (1187), meaning "borderland", and in the period of Kievan Rus' of the 9th-12th centuries they were called Rus', as were the ethnic Rus', and the term "borderland" referred to the area of the Volyn region of Southern Rus' Galicia, where the Rus' lived. With the gradual expansion of the term "Ukraine", the concept of geography evolved into the concept of language and ethnicity, and by the 15th century the Ukrainian nation had developed a separate national identity - its own language, region of life, and economic, political, and religious characteristics. The Russians were also the first to be recognized as an ethnic group.

The Russians are also Rusyns, and the name "Rusyn" is added to the name because in 1547 Ivan IV made himself "tsar" and his country was called "Rusyn". The ancestors of the Rus people for the East Slavic Rus tribe, belonging to the Europa race, the 1st century AD by the Roman historians called "Veledians", that is, China's ancient called "Rakshasa".

At the beginning of the A.D., the East Slavs still retained the clan system, and each tribe consisted of several clans. They cut down forests, leveled the land, engaged in farming, collectively raising livestock, hunting and fishing, all issues decided by the clan assembly. It was not until 862 A.D. that there was a monarchical state based on this community, also known as Kievan Rus' because the capital was in Kiev, which was the cradle of their ******.

Early in the 10th century, Kievan Rus continued to expand, the territory of the east to the mouth of the Volga River, through the Crimean Peninsula to the mouth of the Danube River, from Lake Ladoga in the north, along the coast of the Baltic Sea, south of the steppe, flourished for a while, the acceptance of Orthodox Christianity, the creation of the Rus Code.

In the early 13th century, the mighty Mongol Empire invaded and established the Khanate of Chincha in Eastern Europe. The coalition of the Rus and other ethnic groups was defeated, and the Rus were subjugated to the Khanate of Chincha, and the Kievan Rus was split into several parts; part of the Rus development center of gravity was shifted to the northeastern part of the country, around the area of Moscow.

But with the transfer of the center of gravity of development of the Rus to the north-eastern part of the Moscow region, this place also had the meaning of "frontier". Since then, Ukraine and Russia have been divided, Ukraine in the narrow gap between the difficult to survive, in order to resist the Polish invasion, in 1654 through the "Pereyaslav Agreement", Ukraine into the Russian empire, after more than 300 years of Ukrainian culture and the gradual unification of the Russian Federation, Ukraine joined the USSR in 1922 (the western Ukraine joined in 1939), the dissolution of the Soviet Union on August 24, 1991, Ukraine declared independence. On August 24, 1991, Ukraine declared independence.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited a large number of military equipment, but due to the full denial of the 300-year history of the merger of Russia and Ukraine, the country's ethnic Ukrainians and Russians against each other, from the presidential system to parliamentary, and from parliamentary to presidential, the Ukrainian political situation has been in a state of turmoil, and can not be formed into a joint force.

Those in power are completely knee-jerk to Western ideology, with a serious confrontation between pro-Western and pro-Russian, populism running rampant, and public opinion being manipulated by the West, and then the United States and Russia cooperating with Ukraine to denuclearize the country, losing the bargaining chips of the game, and finally falling prey to geopolitical games.

Two, strategic position

? 1949 NATO was established, led by the United States, NATO in the early 1990s to put forward the strategy of eastward expansion. Since then the alliance has continued to expand to 30 countries, even including the former Soviet Union joined *** and countries Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.

Ukraine and Russia is a neighboring country, has an important strategic significance, the United States since the Cold War has been regarded as a threat to Russia, pulling together the U can inhibit Russia, why not, and Russia will be NATO's eastward expansion described as "an existential threat to Russia", pro-US natural want to join, after the consideration of the Russian-Ukrainian relations, as well as other The NATO is the only organization in the world that has the ability to provide the best possible service to the public.

? Ukraine as Russia's largest neighbor in the southwestern part of the country, is an important strategic buffer zone in the face of the NATO military threat, but also almost regarded as Russia's "last security barrier".

Third, the conflict

The war in eastern and southern Ukraine since February 2014, the Russian-controlled Russian-speaking regions of eastern and southern Ukraine, pro-Russian forces fighting with Ukrainian government forces, demanded to join the Russian Federation, the Crimea declared independence after a referendum and subsequently joined the Russian Federation, and the pro-Russian populations in the Donetsk region and Luhansk region. The pro-Russian population in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts also occupied government buildings and raised the Russian flag.

Russian-Ukrainian relations have therefore been tense since the Crimean crisis in 2014.

On February 11, 2022, the media reported that US President Joe Biden said in a video conference with European allies that the date of Russia's "invasion" of Ukraine was February 16th, and that not only did Russia not invade on the 16th, but it withdrew some of its military personnel; and so US National Security Advisor Sullivan said that Russia could "invade" Ukraine before February 20th, and that Russia could "invade" Ukraine before February 20th. The US National Security Advisor Sullivan said that Russia may "invade" Ukraine before February 20, and called on US citizens to leave the country within the next 24 to 48 hours. I don't want to think about the sinister intentions, there is looking at the fun, worry about no excuse, and not afraid to play themselves out of the game.