Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands

The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reached an all—time low. How did we get here? Richard Sakwa here unpicks the context of conflicted Ukrainian identity and of Russo—Ukrainian relations and traces the path to the recent disturbances through the events which have forced Ukraine, a country internally divided between East and West, to cho...