Ukraine war
Channel: War of Ukraine
Date: 16/05/2023

The conflict between Moscow and Kyiv is rooted in history. 
Its essence is that the Kremlin does not recognize the 
independence of Ukraine. DW recalls the key events that preceded 
the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
The prerequisites for tension in relations between Russia and 
Ukraine and the start of a big war unleashed on the morning of 
February 24 have been developing for more than a dozen years. 
Russian President Vladimir Putin's arguments go back even further, 
to the Middle Ages, when parts of what is now Ukraine and Russia 
were part of Kievan Rus. From there, the thesis of the head of 
the Kremlin about "one people", to which he ranks the Belarusians.
At the same time, the President of the Russian Federation rarely 
recalls that Russians and Ukrainians did not always have the same 
path and that as a result two languages ​​and two cultures were 
formed - related, but different. When both republics became 
separate countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union,
 there was another difference, a political one. Kyiv followed 
the path of Western democracies, with the change of power. 
Moscow turned away from him.
The current war is the result of the policy of the last 30 years. 
It can be conditionally divided into three stages, each of about 
ten years.