War in Ukraine: A Crisis between NATO and RUSSIA

Abstract

War in Ukraine, when it broke up was between the Government and the separatist. This due to the fact that Yanukovich, the then President of Ukraine refuse to endorse the close relationship between Ukraine and European Union (EU). Russia annexed Crimea and also accused of instigating the pro Russian separatist in Donbas region. Cause of the war is said to be NATO and Russia an agreement in Berlin Germany before unification of Germany  that NATO should not expand to the Eastern Europe but NATO citing that there were no written document to confirm that. Russia became furious and to retaliate it had to do what it did. The war became not between pro-Russian separatists versus Government but became proxy between Russia and NATO. The war that is going on made to Russia banks on EU and NATO close that to become a member of these organizations you must be clear of boundary dispute. Then Russia was hit with damaging economic sanctions by the West. For most of its existence, Ukraine has been a part of Russia, separating itself as an independent nation only in 1991, when the Soviet Union disintegrated. One thing for sure, Russia is the dominant power in Eastern Europe, and no solution to the current crisis can realistically emerge unless Russia and Ukraine work out an acceptable modus Vivendi between them.