The world is waiting to see what happens next in Ukraine after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian forces to move into eastern Ukraine.
Russia has recently demanded that Ukraine, a country that aspires to join the EU and NATO, is never allowed to become a member of the military alliance and wanted to see NATO roll back its deployments in eastern Europe. Those demands were refused, although diplomatic talks have continued to try to avert a deepening crisis.
The dramatic escalation of the crisis this week comes after trouble has been brewing for months, and arguably, years. Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine and 2014 and has backed pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine since then, leading to lower-level fighting between Ukrainian troops and separatists which has caused around 13,000 deaths in the region.
By putting more of Russia's troops into eastern Ukraine, military pressure would now build within Ukraine rather than along its borders, Wood added. The United Nations Security Council held a rare emergency meeting on Monday night in New York to address the latest Russian military deployment to Ukraine with U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield saying Putin's announcement posed a direct threat not merely to Ukraine, but to every other sovereign member state of the United Nations.
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