This year’s Lviv Security Forum brought together security experts from different countries in order to model the resolution of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict so that the sovereignty of Ukraine on territories temporarily occupied by Russia would be restored and Ukraine would be protected against Russian aggression in the future. In the preface to the report of the modeling exercise, the Security Forum’s co-chair Oksana Syroyid laid out an essential introduction to Russia’s war against Ukraine — that is, the centuries-old struggle of Russia to access warm-water ports. It is through this prism that the current war against Ukraine – and Russia’s attempts to resurrect its former empire altogether – should be viewed.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
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EuroMaidan Press: Russia’s occupation of Ukraine is a centuries-old process
Russian military forces block access to the Ukrainian Navy base near Simferopol on March 5, 2014. Russian soldiers took over the Crimean peninsula with ease and have illegally occupied it to this day.
