SOURCES OF THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN ARMED CONFLICT

Oleksiy  POKOTYLO; Oleksandr NASHYVOCHNIKOV

doi:10.24919/2519-058X.18.226536

Authors

Oleksiy POKOTYLO PhD (Hystory), Leader Researcher at the Research Department problems of history of wars and martial arts, National Defence University of Ukraine named after Ivan Cherniakhovskyi, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1136-5123
Oleksandr NASHYVOCHNIKOV PhD (Hystory), Head of Research Department problems of history of wars and martial arts, National Defence University of Ukraine named after Ivan Cherniakhovskyi, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4197-6408

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24919/2519-058X.18.226536

Abstract

The purpose of the research – to reveal the origins of the Russian-Ukrainian armed conflict at the beginning of the XXIst century, its preconditions and circumstances. The methodology of the research is based on the principles of historicism, systematics, scientificity, authorial objectivity, as well as the use of general scientific (analysis, synthesis, generalization) and special historical (historical genetic, historical typological, historical systemic) methods. The scientific novelty consists in the fact that for the first time in the history of the Russian-Ukrainian relations, based on previously unknown sources, it has been clarified how at the end of the XXth century the political leadership of the Russian Federation laid the foundations for the Russian-Ukrainian armed conflict in 2014. The Conclusions. Since 1991, the Russian leadership has effectively inflamed the conflict in some regions, including the Crimea, by "not allowing" Ukraine to be an independent state with the right to European development. At the same time, in order to damage the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine, the Black Sea Fleet was used as the main lever of influence. It should be noted that the impact on the population of the Crimean peninsula, through the prism of events around the Black Sea Fleet, was carried out in many spheres, primarily, military, political, informational, linguistic, etc. In our opinion, in 1997 the resolution of the issue of the Black Sea Fleet division marked the fact that by this time the majority of the population of the territory of the Crimea had formed a negative attitude towards the Ukrainian authorities and, as a result, towards the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Therefore, the rapid occupation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014 and the events in Donbass were a natural consequence of the unfriendly policy of the Russian political leadership towards Ukraine, which the leadership has been pursuing since 1991.

Key words: Ukraine, the Russian Federation, the Navy, the Black Sea Fleet, the Crimea, armed conflict.

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