THE STRUGGLE OF GREAT AND REGIONAL POWERS IN THE WAR OF UKRAINE: RUSSIA'S PERSPECTIVE
Journal: TESAM Akademi Dergisi
Year: 2024

This study investigates the Ukraine-Russia War, which started in February 2022, from the perspective of Russia. In the study, why Russia declared war on Ukraine, Russia's policies, official documents and official discourses were examined. Despite the end of the Cold War, enlargement of NATO, which is a military structure, and the Eastern European enlargement of the EU as an economic-political structure has been closely followed in Russia since the Yeltsin period. In the Putin period, it was refl