Large

Scale Conflict
Russia and Ukraine Conflict
 Table of Contents
● INTRODUCTION TO RUSSIA AND UKRAINE CONFLICT-
● POSSIBLE REASON OF RUSSIA'S INVASION
● RUSSIAN TROOPS UPDATE
● NEWS OR LATEST UPDATES OF THE CONFLICT
● UPDATE IN UKRAINE AND DEATH TOLL
● NEWS ON ZELENSKI
● NEWS ON VLADIMYR
● COUNTRIES RESPONES TO THIS ISSUE OR WHAT CAN THE WEST DO?
● RUSSIA AND UKRAINES HISTORY
● WHAT DOES PUTIN WANT?
● HOW FAR WILL RUSSIA GO?
Introduction
Russia is located in northeastern Europe and northern
Asia. It is the largest country in the world—slightly less
than 1.8 times the size of the United States, with a total
area of 17,075,200 sq km, Ukraine, country located in
eastern Europe, the second largest on the continent after
Russia. The capital is Kyiv (Kiev), located on the Dnieper
River in north-central Ukraine

Russian president Vladimir Putin continues to threaten

an invasion of Ukraine with a major military buildup near
the Russian-Ukrainian border and aggressive language
Russia has deployed offensive weapons and systems
within striking distance of Ukraine, including main battle
tanks, self-propelled howitzers, infantry fighting vehicles,
multiple launch rocket systems, Iskander short-range
ballistic missile systems, and towed artillery,
POSSIBLE REASON
OF RUSSIA'S
INVASION
• Putin has complemented this buildup with blunt language that Ukraine
is historically part of Russia and that Kiev needs to return to the
Russian fold.1 Russia’s threat is particularly alarming for at least two
reasons. First, Russia could move its pre-positioned forces into Ukraine
quickly. If fully committed, the Russian military is significantly stronger
and more capable than Ukraine’s military, and the United States and
other NATO countries have made it clear they will not deploy their
forces to Ukraine to repel a Russian invasion. Even if diplomats reach
an agreement, Putin has shown a willingness to dial up—and down—the
war in Ukraine and threaten to expand the war, making the Russian
threat persistent. Second, an invasion would mark a significant change
in international politics, creating a new “Iron Curtain” that begins along
Russia’s borders with Finland and the Baltic states and moves south
through Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central and South Asia, and
finally to East Asia along China’s southern flank
RUSSIAN
TROOPS UPDATE
NEWS OR
LATEST
UPDATES OF
THE CONFLICT
The US State Department criticized the Kremlin on Wednesday for cracking down on Russian media and for its
disinformation campaign on the invasion of Ukraine.

“At home, the Kremlin is engaged in a full assault on media freedom and the truth, and Moscow’s efforts to mislead and
suppress the truth of the brutal invasion are intensifying,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement.
Earlier this week, the Russian Prosecutor General blocked access to two independent media outlets, Echo of Moscow
and TV Rain, accusing them of reporting "false" information about the invasion.

"The outlets were baselessly accused of ‘calling for extremist activity and violence’ and sharing ‘deliberately false
information about the actions of Russian military personnel in Ukraine,’” Price said, adding that Echo of Moscow “has
been respected for its even-handed treatment of breaking news since its founding 32 years ago."

Price did an interview with Echo of Moscow earlier this week.

Price added that Russia's Parliament will meet on Friday to consider a bill to criminalize 'unofficial' reporting on the
invasion.

"The people of Russia also have a right to know about the human costs of this senseless war to their own soldiers," Price
said. "We call upon Putin and his government to honor Russia's international obligations and commitments, to
immediately cease this bloodshed, withdraw its troops from Ukraine’s territory, and to respect the human rights and
fundamental freedoms of their own citizens.
UPDATE IN
UKRAINE AND
DEATH TOLL
Ukraine says hundreds of people have been killed so far in Russia’s invasion, with fighting
widespread across the country and Russian forces advancing on the capital, Kyiv. Ukraine’s health
ministry said on Sunday that at least 352 civilians, including 14 children, have been killed since the
Russian invasion began.

A further 1,684 people have been wounded, it said.

The United Nations said late on Saturday that it has confirmed at least 240 civilian casualties from
the fighting, including at least 64 people killed

It is not clear how many Ukrainian soldiers have died during the Russian invasion.

The Ukrainian military says at least 4,500 Russian soldiers had been killed, and Moscow has
acknowledged that Russian soldiers had been killed and wounded. Meanwhile, at least 368,000
people have now fled Ukraine into Poland and other neighbouring countries in the wake of Russia’s
invasion, the UN refugee agency said on Sunday.

On the battlefield, Ukraine’s military claimed on Monday that Russia had suffered “significant losses,”
including 150 tanks, 700 armoured vehicles and 26 helicopters.
NEWS ON
ZELENSKI
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused NATO
leadership of giving the "green light for further bombing of
Ukrainian cities" by refusing at Friday's summit to establish a "no-
fly" zone over Ukraine, saying those who oppose the move bear
responsibility for civilian deaths going forward.
The furious new tone from Zelensky reflects his growing
frustration with NATO's refusal to "close the sky" — a step he
believes would change the trajectory of the war, but that NATO
fears would spark a direct conflict with Russia.
NEWS ON
VLADIMYR
 As the Russia and Ukraine war entered its second week, Russian
President Vladimir Putin has insisted Russia's military advance in
Ukraine is 'going to plan as his original plan was full victory by
March 2. After the fall of the first major Ukrainian city (Kherson)
to Russian forces, Putin seems to not stop the war yet. As he
said during the televised opening of a national security council
meeting that he "will never give up on his conviction that
Russians and Ukrainians are one people." Adding, Putin and
French President Emmanuel Macron had a 90-minute call,
following the call, the French leader believed "the worst is to
come" in Ukraine.
COUNTRIES
RESPONES TO
THIS ISSUE OR
WHAT CAN THE
WEST DO?
NATO SECRETARY GENERAL JENS STOLTENBERG UK PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON US PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN

ELIZABETH MARY TRUSS GRANT SHAPPS PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE

RUSSIA AND
UKRAINES
HISTORY
Russia and Ukraine have had no formal diplomatic relations since 24 February 2022. The
Russian Federation and Ukraine are currently in a state of war: the Russo-Ukrainian War began
in 2014 following the Russian annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. In February 2022, Russia
invaded Ukraine across a broad front.

After the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, the successor states' bilateral relations have
undergone periods of ties, tensions, and outright hostility. In the early 1990s, Ukraine's policy
was dominated by aspirations to ensure its sovereignty and independence, followed by a
foreign policy that balanced cooperation with the EU, Russia, and other powerful polities.
Relations between the two countries have been hostile since the 2014 Revolution of Dignity,
which toppled Ukraine's elected president Viktor Yanukovych and his supporters, because he
refused to sign a political association and free trade agreement with the European Union that
enjoyed majority support in Ukraine's parliament.

The Russian government feared that Ukraine's membership of the EU and NATO would
complete a western wall of allied countries by restricting Russia's access to the Black Sea.
With South Korea and Japan being allied to the US, the Russian government was concerned
that Russia was being ring-fenced by potentially hostile powers.
WHAT DOES
PUTIN WANT
It’s clear now that Putin’s endgame is nothing short of a revanchist imperialist
remaking of the globe to take control of the entire former Soviet space. He has
complete disregard for international law, norms and human rights and will only
be stopped by maximum economic, political and military pressure. Russia is
nothing less than a rogue state on par with North Korea and Iran. Now, it is our
obligation to protect the Ukrainian people and government, to do better in
terms of helping them secure their airspace and to launch an active
insurgency. In addition, we must slap the toughest sanctions on Russia
including sectoral sanctions. We can blunt the impact to allies and partners
dependent on Russian oil and gas by launching a Berlin airlift of fuel and
pulling out all the stops to avoid this war from spreading to NATO territory and
becoming a world war.
HOW FAR WILL
RUSSIA GO?
It is now clear that Russia is seeking to overthrow Ukraine's democratically elected government. Its
aim is that Ukraine be freed from oppression and "cleansed of the Nazis".
President Zelensky said he had been warned "the enemy has designated me as target number one;
my family is target number two".
This false narrative of a Ukraine seized by fascists in 2014 has been spun regularly on Kremlin-
controlled TV. Mr Putin has spoken of bringing to court "those who committed numerous bloody
crimes against civilians".
What Russia's plans are for Ukraine are unknown, but it faces stiff resistance from a deeply hostile
population.
In January, the UK accused Moscow of plotting to install a pro-Moscow puppet to lead Ukraine's
government - a claim rejected at the time by Russia as nonsense. One unconfirmed intelligence
report has suggested Russia aims to split the country in two.
In the days before the invasion, when up to 200,000 troops were near Ukraine's borders, Russia's
public focus was purely on the eastern areas of Luhansk and Donetsk.
By recognising the separatist areas controlled by Russian proxies as independent, Mr Putin was
telling the world they were no longer part of Ukraine. Then he revealed that he supported their claims
to far more Ukrainian territory.
The self-styled people's republics cover little more than a third of the whole of Ukraine's Luhansk and
Donetsk regions, but the rebels covet the rest, too.