Five years ago, Russia’s aggression against Ukraine morphed from economic and political threats into outright military aggression. It had all started in late summer 2013 as Russian President Vladimir Putin had begun to put all screws possible on the country to force it off its Western path, and pressure it into the Eurasian Economic Union, which was his own project. Russia’s aggression escalated until a fragile cease-fire was achieved in the late summer of 2014.

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