MORE DIFFERENT THAN NOT:DIVERGENCE OF VALUES IN UKRAINE's AND RUSSIA's SOCIETIES AMIDSTTHE FULL-SCALE INVASIONine’s and Russia’s Societies amidst the Full-Scale Invasion
Journal: Vìsnik.
Year: 2023

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which started on February 2022 and had been preceded by years of more limited warfare, has again brought to the fore the question of a civilisational split between the two countries. While Ukrainians have clearly opted for European and Euro-Atlantic integration, Russians have repeatedly sought to assert their influence over the former Soviet countries—Ukraine included—denying their right to freely choose their alliances and creating their own version of ‘