Yulia Tymoshenko

The nuances of the Ukrainian conflict In the winter of 2013, thousands of activists braved the freezing cold to protest on the central Maidan Independence Square in Kiev. Their grievance was then-President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to align his country closer to Russia by rejecting a trade agreement with the European Union which many had been hoping for. The movement, known as Euromaidan, demanded the removal of Yanukovych from power and the establishment of closer ties to the EU. However, Yanukovych

Since establishing independence from the Soviet Union, Ukraine has experienced its most prolonged and deadly crisis which has deconstructed government plans to create closer economic and trade ties with the European Union while also enticing a global impasse between Russia and the Western powers. The roots of the crisis stem from decades of inefficient and corrupt governance, an unbalanced economic system dominated by oligarchs, heavy reliance on Russia, and socioreligious differences between the