From Vilnius to the Kerch Strait: wide-ranging security risks of the Ukraine crisis
Journal: European Politics and Society
Year: 2019

A discourse about who can be held accountable for the emergence of the Ukrainian conflict has developed. The EU’s and Russia’s polar-opposite integration strategies with Ukraine, dividing the country between its political and economic affiliation with either Brussels or Moscow, were considered as factors causing tensions in Ukraine. At the same time an intensifying opposition towards President Yanukovich’s leadership was another factor contributing to the deterioration of this crisis. A series o