Ukraine case study facts

Ukraine gained indepdendece from USSR in

1991

Ukraine started building links with

“The West, EU”

Ukraine ethnicity

80%

Russian-Ukranian

77.8%

Ukraines state apparatus is

weak

2013 turning point

Ukriane govt suspended talks with EU over new trade/co-operation deal in favour of eocnomic ties with Russia

2013 indicendces were seen as a sign of

corrupt, incompetent government

euromaiden protests forced president

Yanukovych out of governance. U

Euromaidne protests AKA

Revolution of Dignity

Western part of Ukraine wanted to become closer with

Europe and Wes (ie NATO)

whilst Russian parts of Ukraine (eas/crimea)

wanted to stop this, producting a divide

Putin saw revolution of dignity as

Facist coup backed by western forces 201

2014

Russia invades Ukraine

Putin backs Pro Russian ukrainians in the east,

now military conlfict in Donbass Region

600k migrated to

Neighbours / Russia

13,000 deaths as of

2020

1.47m

IDPS

IDPS/Evacues living in

summer camps with poor acceoss to healthcare, food and medicine

7,000 trapped within Cities

w/o power, heating, water

Key locations bombed eg

Debaltseve in Ukraine

Donetske airport destroyed by heavy fighting limits

access to humanitarian aid

Donbass industrial area destroyed, including

coal mines, chemical works

envinrontmentla damage form shellling and fighting such as

forest fires and steppes bruning

Russia faced economic sacntions meaning

they couldnt trade, economy gets worse

NATO assisted Ukraine by undertaking military training etc but Putin

saw as a threat and used it to justify invasion in 20222