Russia-Ukraine Tensions
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What can be the reasons behind the conflict between Russia and Ukraine?
Russia has amassed more than 100,000 Russian soldiers on the border with Ukraine and in annexed Crimea in recent weeks. Despite a series of talks involving Russia and the West, it remains unclear and the fear of Ukrainian invasion remains. Ukraine shares borders with both the EU and Russia, but as a former Soviet republic it has deep social and cultural ties with Russia, and Russian is widely spoken there. Russia has long resisted Ukraine's move towards European institutions and it is now demanding it never joins NATO, a demand rejected by the Western alliance. Russia seized part of southern Ukraine in 2014 and backed separatists who started a conflict in large areas of the east. Now Russia is warning of military measures if the West does not meet its demands, and the US fears it could create a pretext to iRelated Posts
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