PUTIN’S WAR AGAINST UKRAINE FROM THE HYBRID AGGRESSION TO FULL-SCALE WAR AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

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Since 2014 the Russian Federation has been actively engaged in a campaign of hostile military aggression against Ukraine.Until 24 February 2022, almost 7% of Ukraine's sovereign territoryincluding the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the city of Sevastopol and parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Eastern Ukrainehave been illegally occupied by Russia.The international community, including the EU, has condemned this flagrant and destabilizing act of aggression and imposed sanctions and other restrictive measures against the Russian Federation.Despite these sanctions, Russia on 24 February 2022 openly invaded into Ukraine.The invasion has been considered an act of aggression in violation of the UN Charter by the UN General Assembly and the most countries in the world.The Russian Federation in the wake of its activities in Ukraine became the largest terrorist organization in the world 1 .Russian hybrid aggression against Ukraine in 2014 wasn't random.It became a logical continuation of Russian policy in the post-Soviet space.The Kremlin's effort to claim and subdue the interests of Ukraine had occurred since the beginning of the 2000s, after the government of V. Putin came to power.The confirmation of this thesis we'll find further due analyzing of the Ukrainian-Russian relations since 1991.Ukraine as a state has managed to survive through the first months of Russian aggression even when its national machinery resembled a termite-eaten piece of furniture, and despite Ukraine not having sufficient military combat experience to face the audacious acts of well-trained saboteurs of direct Russian aggression.Perhaps this is not a David and Goliath story, rather, it is more of a modern version of the biblical story of Cain and Abel.Ukraine lost till 24 February 2022 Crimea and part of Donbas in addition to the destruction in the order of 20% of the national economy.These were major factors of destabilization, but Russia continued plans to build a barrier of so-called "people's republics", to cut off Ukraine from the Black Sea ports and destroy the export potential of the country.Ukrainians have become the first on the continent, to lay down their lives for 1

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