Conclusion: Battlefields Ukraine Between Russia and the West
Journal: Rethinking political violence
Year: 2025

Abstract The conclusion summarizes the main findings and discusses their implications and prospects for the conflict resolution in Ukraine. This book shows that the Russian, Ukrainian, and Western governments, the Maidan forces, the Ukrainian far right, and Crimean and Donbas separatists contributed to the violent conflict escalation ladder, which culminated in the Russia-Ukraine war that also became a proxy war between Russia and NATO in Ukraine. This conflict ladder started with Euromaidan, in