History of the Russia-Ukraine conflict:

In 1991, Ukraine declared its independence from former Soviet Union, with the hope of gaining closer ties to the West. Since then, there have been 2 revolutions (in 2005 and 2014) in which citizens protested Russian supremacists taking over the government and sought to join the European Union and NATO. During the 2014 revolution, Ukrainian president Yanukovych, rejected any association with EU and voted in favour of closer ties with Russia, which led to his removal in office. As a result, Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in support of the Russian supremacist rebels and a total of 14,000 people were killed. A year later, with the aid of France and Germany, a peace agreement was signed by both nations but in recent years there have been a variety of violations of the treaty.

In 2022 Vladmir Putin (Russia’s President) explained that if Ukraine joined NATO (military alliance between 30 Western countries), they would invade Ukraine via the Crimean Peninsula...