A WARFARE PERSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINAN WAR: SEMANTIC, SCENARIOS AND IMPLICATIONS
Journal: EURAS Journal of Social Sciences
Year: 2023

announced the beginning of a "Special Military Operation" or "special operation" to describe its campaign in Ukraine with most Western mass media and governments understanding the term to be simply a euphemism for military invasion and war 2 .It is common belief that RUW will be the Third World War, but this war ended with the conclusion of the Cold War on the 25th December 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union 3 .Hence, it is more appropriate the use of the term Fourth World War instead