本文是一篇国际关系论文，笔者认为乌克兰议会通过了关于顿涅茨克和卢汉斯克地区特殊地位的法律，使我们能够希望乌克兰危机目前阶段早日结束。危机本身远未结束，但我们必须尽一切可能确保其后续阶段在没有任何军事干预和俄罗斯有限政治参与的情况下进行。
CHAPTER 1. THE ORIGINS OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE
1.1. History of relations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine
The conflict that broke out in 2014 between Ukraine and the Russian Federation in 2020 remains unresolved. In this work I tried to research such a huge and important for me, as a russian citizen subject as a relation between Russia amd Ukraine.
More than 13,300 people have been killed and 25,000 injured since 2014, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 1.4 million people were forced to leave their place of residence and move to other regions of Ukraine, and about 1 million refugees left for neighboring states. Donbass has become one of the most mined regions in the world, along with Afghanistan and Iraq.
The conflict between Ukraine and Russia flared up against the backdrop of a political crisis that escalated in Ukraine in late November 2013. President Yanukovych's decision to suspend the signing of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union triggered the “Revolution of Dignity” (“Euromaidan”).
In Crimea, the Russian military in uniform without insignia and camouflage masks began to establish control over strategic objects of the region. On March 16, 2014, the so-called "referendum" on independence and accession to the Russian Federation was held. This annexation was not recognized by the international community.
1.2.The history of Ukraine in the focus of relating to the history of Russia.
To understand the roots of the conflict, I researched the material about history of these two countries. It id better to say, about Russia and russian south.
In the IX - XII centuries. most of the territories of Kievan Rus were part of the early feudal Old Russian state. In the XII century. on the territory of South- Western Russia, Kiev, Chernigov, Galicia, Vladimir-Volyn and other independent principalities emerged, at the end of the XII century. Galicia-Volyn principality was formed.
In the fourteenth century. Kievan Rus fell under the rule of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Poland, and others.
In the XV century. state relations in the modern sense between Lithuania, which included Ukraine, and north-eastern Russia have not yet existed. But they existed, and were determined by the internal struggle of various princes and Lithuanian parties for an external orientation, as well as by the family ties of the princes.
In the years 1648-1654. the struggle against the Polish-Lithuanian aggression ended with the liberation war of the Ukrainian and Belarusian peoples under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnitsky and the unification of Ukraine with Russia (Pereyaslavskaya Rada); Left-bank Ukraine received autonomy within Russia (Hetmanate).
CHAPTER 2. THE ROLE OF RUSSIA IN THE LAST (2014-2020) CONFLICT
2.1.The problem of Crimea
As I wrote before, Ukraine and Russia had a huge questions to each other last thirty years. In 1962 Kchruschev “gave” to Ukrainian Republic (which was not only one of the Soviet Republics, but his alma-mater), a huge support by officially giving Ukraine Crimea. Never before Crimea was owned by Ukraine. And what happened then we already know: The Crimean Peninsula, north of the Black Sea in Europe, was annexed to the Russian Federation between February and March 2014 and has since been administered by two constituent entities of the Russian Federation - the Republic of Crimea and the federal city in Sevastopol. The annexation from Ukraine was followed by Russian military intervention in Crimea that took place in the post-2014 Ukrainian revolution and was part of wider unrest in southern and eastern Ukraine.
On February 22-23, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin called a meeting with the heads of the security services to discuss the release of ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. We must start work on returning Crimea to Russia.
