Ukrainian Crisis Essay

Submitted By Degnan59
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Ukrainian Crisis Ukraine is not Russia, but the two have had problems for years now. Ukraine became part of the Soviet Union at the end of that country’s civil war. At the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine became an independent state. Crimea is an island off the coast of the Ukraine and has been important to Russia for a very long time. Russia has gone to war more than once to protect Crimea. In 1954, the Soviet Union made Crimea apart of the Ukraine. When Ukraine became independent, Crimea was in an area controlled by a foreign country, Ukraine. Russia was not bothered by this as long as Ukraine and Russia had no problems. In 2013, the Ukrainian government, after going through some tough times with Russia, began to move closer to the European Union and the West. The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, was not okay with this because he persuaded the Ukrainian president to have nothing to do with the West in return for favors from Russia. At this point, Putin thinks he is slick and has underestimated the intensity of the Ukrainian president in Ukraine. The Ukraine started to become a nation of dissent and protests. After the protests came to an end, other protests have broken out in predominantly ethnic Russian areas. With the Ukraine having an interim government, they had no control over there people and with the breakup of police forces, it’s unlikely that they will ever be in full control of their people. In my own opinion, I think that the Ukrainian Crisis is their