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War and Terror in Ukraine
Many historical events led up to Vladimir Putin deciding to go to war against Ukraine. There is no good reason for what he has done. He has been thinking, talking and writing for a long time about what happened to the Soviet Union since he was a young man in the Soviet intelligence agency. He is leading the Russian people and army into a war that is criminal. He is violating international laws, and much of the world is uniting to stop him. He is considered a war criminal. During Putin ’s lifetime the collapse of the Russian-led Soviet Union has seen Russia become economically, geographically and militarily less powerful and grand than it was. It has suffered as parts of the former Soviet Union became independent countries, reducing its influence in the world. As a leader of the reduced nation, Vladimir Putin wanted to make it as great again as it once was. He also feared the rising power of a combined set of nations in neighboring Europe that were part of an alliance called NATO. It troubled him greatly that parts of Europe that had once been part of the Soviet Union were no longer under the control of Russia. Putin has begun criminal wars to take over nations and to stamp out independence movements. He invaded and took over Crimea and the eastern parts of Ukraine. In 2022 he massed 200,000 soldiers on the borders of Ukraine and then invaded it with the soldiers, tanks, artillery, missiles and bombers. Forty-four million people were living in Ukraine at the time Putin started started the war in 2022. They had a democracy, and were eager to be culturally closer to Europe than Putin liked. Putin had established a dictatorship in Russia and felt threatened that 44 million people in neighboring Ukraine felt free to speak their minds and to vote for who would be their leaders. Putin believed people should be governed by a dictator and should not have freedom of speech and the right to elect their leaders. Ukrainian people felt very differently. They were willing to die rather than to have their freedom taken away. So, a terrible war has been going on. Many Russian soldiers have died in the invasion. Many Ukrainian soldiers and many families, including children, have been killed.
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