What happened to the conflict in Kyiv?

Speaking of the Kiev Revolution-this is what the locals call this event, that is, we must first talk about the relationship between Russia and Ukraine. We know that Russia is one of the hegemonic countries in the world. Russia and Ukraine have far-reaching historical, cultural and religious ties. The East Slavic nations - Russia, Ukraine and Belarus are all brotherly nations, and the birthplace of their common culture and religion is Kiev. But Russia and Ukraine have completely different historical development experiences. Their common ancestors all came from the Principality of Kievan Rus (7th to 13th centuries AD). Its territory ranged from Novgorod in Russia in the north to the southern region of Ukraine in the south. In its prosperous period, Kiev was the capital ( 9th-13th centuries AD). The land here is fertile and rich in resources. Kiev was once the largest city in Europe after Rome. During its heyday, the Principality of Kievan Rus also challenged the Byzantine Kingdom in the south. Every kingdom has its periods of prosperity and decline. With the invasion of the Mongolian Western Expeditionary Army in the 13th century, princes and nobles fled to the northern region, which is now the territory of Russia, leaving their own citizens to endure the occupation of foreigners. After this the histories of Ukraine and Russia began to go their separate ways. Russia is slowly developing and growing in its northern region, while Ukraine has been occupied by various surrounding powers in turn due to its superior natural and geographical conditions. But Russia has not forgotten its history and always seeks to take back this treasure land of Ukraine. Finally, in 1654, the Principality of Muscovy signed an agreement with the Ukrainian Cossack leaders to incorporate Ukraine into the Principality of Muscovy, which became part of Russia. From that time until 1992 it was controlled by Russia and later the Soviet Union.

After nearly 400 years of continuous struggle against foreigners, the Ukrainian people have formed their own independent national cognition and national character. It can be said that they are already separated from Russia. There are also differences between different regions of Ukraine. The western region of Ukraine, due to its long-term rule by Poland and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is closer to the West in culture and religion; while the eastern region borders Russia and has more ethnic Russians and is closer to Russia. Russia also failed to assimilate Ukrainians during its years of rule. So the current Ukrainian view of the Russians is that they are brotherly nations, but different nations. Russia can never let go of its own plot in Kiev - turning Kiev into its mother city. From a geostrategic perspective, Russia has always regarded Ukraine as its important strategic buffer zone and its sphere of influence. Since then, Russia has always needed to secretly control Ukraine's politics and economy after Ukraine became independent. The last president, Yanukovych, was supported by Russia and followed Moscow's orders. In addition, Yanukovych was weak and greedy, which aroused public anger. People took to the streets to demand EU membership and the elimination of corruption. And it became more and more noisy, developing from peaceful demonstrations to armed revolution. Seeing that the situation was over, the pro-Russian President Yanukovych fled to Russia with a large amount of cash and property, and the Ukrainian revolution was declared a success.

Of course, Russia does not want to see its strategic interests harmed and its last strategic space squeezed. More importantly, it does not want the new pro-Western Ukrainian government to remove the Russian Black Sea Fleet from its base. Drive out Sevastopol, Crimea, which has a history of hundreds of years (the Yushchenko government has talked with Russia, asking Russia to move the Black Sea Fleet elsewhere). So Russia used its traditional thinking and action characteristics to make the decision to separate Crimea from Ukraine, fundamentally solving this problem. Russia did a very good job in the tactical occupation of Crimea. The heavily armed special forces without insignia occupied all strategic locations in Crimea bit by bit and blocked the military camps where Ukrainian troops were stationed. Taking advantage of the favorable opportunity when the post-revolution situation in Ukraine was still unstable and the leaders had no experience in handling similar incidents, they quickly occupied the Crimean Peninsula and then used the local puppet regime and a powerful propaganda offensive to create a questionable region. Trump's vote showed the public's willingness to merge with Russia. He followed the trend and announced that Crimea would be admitted to the Russian Federation.

Many Chinese people praise Putin for his decisiveness and boldness. But I think Russia has made several serious strategic mistakes: after Russia obtained the Sevastopol military port and the Crimean Peninsula, it completely lost Ukraine. Ukraine can no longer become Russia’s strategic buffer zone.

Ukraine will ask to join NATO immediately after the presidential election in May to seek protection. Once successful, Russia will have no strategic space of its own. Secondly, if Russia blatantly invades and occupies the territory of neighboring countries in the 21st century, it will be isolated by the international community in all aspects. A new round of anti-Russian sports will be launched around the world. The United States and NATO are so happy. Years of painstaking efforts are not as good as what the Russians themselves have given. The gift is useful! In addition, a new round of economic sanctions against Russia will cause huge losses to the already unstable Russian economy and consume Russia's national power... A weak Russia is what the United States likes to see.

As for China’s attitude and actions, we will break it down next time!