The Conversation asked three scholars to briefly explain what this attack means for the people of Ukraine and the world.
High-level diplomacy: representatives of the US and UK on the UN Security Council talk with Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya.
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What Nato and its allies do next will be vital to the future security of Europe and the rest of the world.
Winter wheat being harvested in the fields of the Tersky Konny Zavod collective farm in the North Caucuses.
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The Council of Europe aims to promote human rights, democracy and the rule of law, but it hasn’t moved to suspend Russia over its actions in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s popularity is on the rise again, but conflict with Ukraine may eventually change that.
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Approximately 69% of Russians approve of President Vladimir Putin. But a costly war is likely to chip away at his popularity, history and data tell us.
Many Ukrainian Americans feel connected to Ukraine’s history and independence, including scholar Katja Kolcio. She writes about her family’s work preserving Ukrainian culture as immigrants in the US.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
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The Biden administration hopes the threat of harsh sanctions from a united West will deter Putin from invading Ukraine. But Russia has a long history of using energy to divide the US and Europe.
A Ukrainian serviceman, seen through a camouflage mesh, stands at a frontline position in the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, in January 2022.
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The risk to Ukraine’s democracy currently lies with the politicians who have offshore assets that can be massaged and altered from Moscow or elsewhere. Preventing this is essential.
The empty seat for Ukraine’s foreign minister is shown before a NATO foreign ministers meeting on Dec. 1, 2021, in Riga, Latvia.
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One of Putin’s demands for de-escalating conflict with Ukraine is NATO blocking Ukrainian membership. Understanding what NATO is, and why Ukraine wants to join, clarifies why Putin wants this.
Never forgotten: a memorial to the Great Famine of the 1930s in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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