The emergence and development of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis

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Ukraine is closely linked to the interests of the major powers because of its great importance to Europe and the West due to its privileged location and the availability of large natural resources on its territory, so it is the focus of everyone's attention, as its geopolitical factors made it at different times an area of international conflict and competition between ancient empires. and today between the West and Russia And the country that separates Rus-sia from the West is vital for both sides, which explains the escalating Rus-sian competition with the West over Ukraine to ensure the realization of its interests and goals.
Ukraine is considered a buffer zone between East and West, because Russia considers it an integral part of its Soviet civilizational heritage and a strategic depth and an important space to bring it closer to the West on the one hand, and to protect the eastern European side from any Western influence on the other hand, in addition to the West's point of view that Ukraine is considered the gateway to Europe Eastern Europe is trying not to allow a central continental country, such as Russia, to control or dominate the region, and just as the Russian-Ukrainian crisis reflects the disputes and conflicts that the state of the Republic of Ukraine has witnessed since 2014, which prompted this crisis to have major international repercussions for the interventions it witnessed. Foreign countries, especially Russian and West-ern, within the framework of competition over sites and areas of influence in them, and in addition to that behind this competition is a new crisis between them in 2022, as it greatly affected the countries of the world, especially European countries.