RUSSIA AND UKRAINE

THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THESE TWO COUNTRY

STARTED AT FEBRUARY 20, 2014.

 WHY HAS RUSSIA INVADED
UKRAINE AND WHAT DOES PUTIN
WANT?
HOW FAR WILL RUSSIA
GO?
 PRESIDENT
VLADIMIR PUTIN

PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA, A POSITION HE

HAS FILLED SINCE 2012, AND
PREVIOUSLY FROM 1999 UNTIL 2008.
 W H Y D O E S RU S S I A WA N T U K R A I N E?

• Putin wants to reestablish a Russian empire and at the same time prevent a democratic
encirclement around Russia.
•  Without Ukraine, there is no Eurasian Union ..
• From the Russian point of view, Russia and Ukraine share deep historical and cultural roots.
Kyiv, the capital of modern-day Ukraine, is considered the birthplace of orthodox Christianity
and Russian civilization.
• From this standpoint, Russia’s biggest concern is NATO. After the Cold War, the Baltic states
declared their independence. In 2004 all three were admitted to NATO. This immediately raised
an air of concern within the Russian government. However, these three nations don’t hold the
same cultural significance that Ukraine does
 HOW ARE CITIZENS OF UKRAINE
R E S P O N D I N G T O R U S S I A’ S I N VA S I O N

any citizens have gone a step further in

their support and joined territorial
defense units. As of Feb. 26, two days
into Russia’s invasion, 37,000 Ukrainians
were signed up. Now journalists,
artists, musicians, TV hosts, comedians
and thousands of others are patrolling
the streets.
 H O W FA R
WILL RUSSIA
GO?
• These are terrifying times for Ukrainians as bombs rain down
on cities and civilians rush to Cold War-era bomb shelters
• Hundreds have died already in what German Chancellor Olaf
Scholz has dubbed "Putin's war" - civilians as well as soldiers.
Russia's onslaught has prompted hundreds of thousands of
people to flee across Ukraine's borders. Poland, Hungary,
Romania, Moldova and Slovakia are seeing a big influx, while
the EU suggests more than seven million people could be HOW FAR WILL
displaced
• This is not a war Russia's population was prepared for, either, as the
RUSSIA GO?
invasion was rubber-stamped by a largely unrepresentative upper
house of parliament. Thousands of anti-war protesters have been
detained in a state whose main opposition leader was already behind
bars.
 Nato's defensive alliance has made clear there are no
plans to send combat troops to Ukraine itself. But
member countries have provided weapons and field
hospitals and the EU, for the first time in its history, is
to buy and send arms and other equipment.

Nato has deployed several thousand troops in the Baltic

states and Poland and for the first time is activating part
WHAT CAN THE of its much larger rapid reaction force. Nato will not say
WEST DO? where but some could go to Romania, Bulgaria,
Hungary and Slovakia.

Yet can the west now offer Ukraine more than a mixture
of prayers, sanctions and diplomatic demarches?
Throughout this conflict western intelligence has shown
it has been able to predict Putin’s next step, but less
capable of stopping it
PERFORMANCE TASK ENGLISH

Aaliyah Zhack
Nicole Reyes Matthew Nino