The EU and Russia: The War that Changed Everything
Journal: JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies
Year: 2023

The significance of Russia's war against Ukraine can hardly be overestimated. This is the biggest interstate war in Europe since the Second World War. On the 24th of February 2022, the largest country in Europe, Russia, attacked the second largest, Ukraine, on three different fronts, with massive military force, with the clear purpose of territorial control and at an immense human cost. In doing so, the Kremlin broke one of the most important taboos in European security, that on territorial expa