Russia – Ukraine conflict
The ongoing Russia Ukraine conflict sees the first thing that you have to understand is the tension between Russia and Ukraine primarily because of two reasons one Ukraine is a matter of strategic importance to Russia look at the size of Ukraine it is a big country that is right in between the European Union and Russia so this is very straightforward and I will describe more about it in a while and the second reason is there is also a territorial conflict between Russia and Ukraine as you may know currently Russia is in control of Crimea and then there are two regions on eastern Ukraine which are called disks and Luhansk so these together combine to form Donbas region of eastern Ukraine so Ukraine was once part of the Soviet Union after Ukraine became a separate country and declared itself an independent country. As you can see from this map Ukraine shares borders with both the European Union and Russia but as a former soviet republic it has deep social and cultural ties with Rus