The War of the Russian Federation Against Ukraine in 2014–2025 as a Civilizational Confrontation: Political and International Law Assessments
Journal: Przegląd Strategiczny
Year: 2025

From the beginning, the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine in 2014–2025 was a civilisational clash of existential order and was entirely determined by the Kremlin’s imperial geopolitical radios. The collapse of the USSR became for the rulers of Russia and the majority of its population ‘the greatest catastrophe of the twentieth century’. All the actions of Putin’s authoritarian regime give grounds to state the systemic degradation of Russian statehood and civil society. Today, the Rus