Russia and Ukraine, these two countries are actually people of the same race at the beginning, both belong to Eastern Slavs, in other words, they are of the same ancestry, but why did the two brothers break up later? This has to start with the Huns who were driven around by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
In the late Western Han Dynasty, the Huns began to split into two branches, the north and the south. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, because the northern Xiongnu often harassed the border, in 73 AD, the Eastern Han Dynasty and the southern Xiongnu "partnered" to encircle the northern Xiongnu, and finally drove the northern Xiongnu out of the Mobei Plateau after 18. The northern Xiongnu had nowhere to live, so they had to run west. In the process of westward migration, the great migration and differentiation of Asian and European nationalities are constantly triggered. At that time, Slavic people, one of the "three barbarians" in Europe, were also forced to be divided into three branches: Eastern Slavic, Western Slavic and Yugoslavia.
Among them, Eastern Slavic is divided into many tribes. Tribes compete for territory and population all the year round. It is normal for brothers to fight for "property", but a few brothers invited outsiders to help. At this time, the famous vikings appeared in black and pink.
Vikings, also known as Russians, are famous "macho men" in Europe. In its heyday, the vikings fought all the way from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, and no one could beat them wherever they went. As the saying goes, it is easier to send God by asking for him. Russians originally came to be mercenaries, but after a long time, the growing strength of Russians actually stayed, and in the 9th century, a country dominated by Russians and dominated by Eastern Slavs was established in Ukraine, called Kiev Ross.
At first, Russia in Kiev was a unified and stable country. However, in the middle of the12nd century, another descendant of Genghis Khan, the "macho man" in the Far East, commanded a powerful cavalry column and wiped out Kiplo like autumn leaves, which officially opened the era when Mongols ruled the Eastern Slavs. It was the arrival of the Mongols that gradually split the Eastern Slavs and gradually evolved into Russia and Ukraine.
Since then, Ukraine and Russia have regarded each other as uncivilized barbarians and regarded each other as authentic Russians. To this end, they fought with each other for hundreds of years. During the period, we have been on and off, fighting and killing, and the contradictions and grievances between the two sides have accumulated more and more, which is finally difficult to resolve. In the 1940s, the Soviet Union took advantage of the victory of World War II to eat up the whole Ukraine and take it for itself, making the latter a country that joined the United Republic.
199 1 year, the Soviet union disintegrated, and Russia and Ukraine became two independent sovereign States respectively. After Ukraine's independence, due to the influence of a large number of problems left over from the disintegration of the Soviet Union, there are a lot of contradictions and problems in ethnic religion, political and economic system, international foreign policy and many other aspects. Its domestic political situation and social form have not really stabilized, and its foreign policy has wavered between the West and Russia.
The west, led by the United States, has never given up its "temptation" and "wooing" to Ukraine. Finally, in February of 20 14, a "color revolution" broke out in Ukraine. This "color revolution" was made and directed by the United States and the West in an attempt to make Ukraine fall to Europe and the United States in an all-round way.
As a result, pro-Russian President Yanukovych was forced to step down, which directly led to the later "Crimea" incident and the independence of Donetsk and Hugansk in eastern Ukraine, and the civil war between "pro-Russian civilian armed forces" and Ukrainian government forces broke out in some parts of Ukraine. In September, 2065438+2004, under the mediation of Russia, the warring parties signed the first Minsk Agreement in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, but since then, the warring parties have not fully fulfilled the agreement.
From 2065438 to February 2005, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany signed the second Minsk Agreement again in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, which played a certain restrictive role in quelling the civil war in Ukraine. However, after Zelensky took office on 20 19, he refused to fully implement the Minsk Agreement, which led to the continuous deterioration of the situation in Wudong. At the same time, Zelensky proposed to join NATO, and the United States clearly expressed its agreement and support, which caused strong Russian dissatisfaction.
At the end of 20021,Russia began to build up its military forces in the Russian-Ukrainian border area, trying to force NATO to stop its eastward expansion by military pressure. At the same time, as a "revenge" for Ukraine's attempt to join NATO and its long-term military encirclement and suppression of eastern Ukraine, Russia agreed to support the independence of Donetsk and Lugansk on February 2, 2022, and sent troops to launch a "special military operation" against Ukraine on February 24.
Obviously, the two "brothers" of Russia and Ukraine went to war because of deep historical grievances and the reasons why the United States and the West supported Ukraine, which made Ukraine feel that it had the capital to fight against Russia and wanted to take the opportunity to change Russia's long-standing dominant position.
However, no matter what the outcome of this round of war is, it can't change the geographical status quo that Ukraine has been in the "middle zone" of long-term confrontation between Russia and western countries. Facts have proved that it is not the best choice for Ukraine to fall to either side in an all-round way. It may be the best choice for Ukraine to adopt a "neutral" policy, weaken its military strength, give full play to the geographical advantages of Russia-Europe economic ties as a "transit point", and fully develop its economy and improve people's livelihood.