10 Key Points You Must Know About Why Russia And Ukraine Are Fighting?

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1. While there has been tensions between Russia and Ukraine, a former Soviet republic, for a long time, this situation began getting out of control in early 2021.

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By December2021, the US began hyping up the deployment of the Russian troops and President Biden warned of severe sanctions if Russia invaded Ukraine.

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3. Russia has demanded that the West gives a legally binding guarantee that NATO will not hold any military activity in eastern Europe and Ukraine.

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4. This is not the first time tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Russia had invaded Ukraine in 2014

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5. As a former Soviet republic Ukraine has deep social and cultural ties with Russia, and Russian is widely spoken there, but ever since Russia invaded in 2014 those relations have frayed.

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6. Russia attacked Ukraine when its pro-Russian president was deposed in early 2014. The war in the east has since claimed more than 14,000 lives.

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7. Russia and Ukraine had signed the Minsk peace accord to halt the armed conflict in east Ukraine, including the Donbas region.

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8. The new tension between Russia and Ukraine, which also borders the European Union, has repurcussions for the EU.

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9. Just weeks ago, French President Emmanuel Macron flew to Moscow to talk to President Putin to reduce tensions.

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10. India has called for a diplomatic way out of the current crisis between Russia and Ukraine.

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