Introduction
Journal: The MIT Press eBooks
Year: 2023

On the morning of 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, attacking the country from several directions.The war, however, had started eight years earlier, in 2014, with Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula on the Black Sea.But what had previously been a low-scale, regionally delimited war suddenly escalated to unthinkable dimensions.This book is concerned with events preceding the full-scale assault on Ukraine.The manuscript had been completed when Russian bom