“Why Do We Need a World without Russia in It?” Discursive Justifications of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine in Russia and Germany
Journal: Nationalism and Ethnic Politics
Year: 2023

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which started on February 24, 2022, has marked a turning point in Russian-Western relations. While liberal democratic societies’ unanimous condemnation of that invasion was followed by unprecedented sanctions and a rupture of diplomatic and economic relations with Russia, some Western social and political actors supported, to some extent, the Russian rhetoric regarding the invasion of Ukraine. Consequentially, this paper not only reveals that Russian stat