UKRAINE – STUCK BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE WEST
Journal: STRATEGIES XXI The Complex and Dynamic Nature of the Security Environment
Year: 2022

For some time now, Ukraine has been internally divided between those who support Russia and those who fight for the westernization of the country through its affiliation with NATO and the EU. Both the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) – and later the Eastern Partnership (EaP) policy – as well as Russia’s foreign policy, have been fuelling more and more this internal divide, with every strategy implemented by the EU in that direction leading to violent responses from Russia, which had very sign