The purpose of this article is to fully examine the roots and emotional motivations of Putin's cataclysmic decision to invade Ukraine.
Whilst there is little to no justification for the declaration of a military conflict or the invasion of foreign territory, there is nostalgia and extreme patriotism driving Putin's decision to annex Ukraine and the Crimea.
It all boils down to the fractured post World War II relations between the East and West.In an address to the Kremlin on the 21st of February 2022, Putin outlined the historical motives of his declaration of war on the Ukraine and elucidated where his grievances for the Russian nation stem from.
From the creation of the Soviet Union in 1917, Ukraine has been a very complicated territory; it was a collection of states belonging to Poland, Lithuania and the Soviet Union at different intervals in their history.