UKRAINE CRISIS

HOW DID THE UNREST IN UKRAINE BEGIN?

• President Viktor F. Yanukovych’s signals in early 2013 that Ukraine would make an agreement with the European Union to the angry protests by the
• End of the year that flared in the towns square, that were never resolved and resulted in the Ukraine crisis.

Who is President Yanukovych, and why has he fled?

• He was the president of the ukraine but has been forced to
• flee because he is being charged with mass murder and
• the state of the country is horrible.

Who are the protesters?

• The protestors are just citizens that want a change
• to the cruel environment they have had to deal
• with for so long.

Why did the unrest escalate in the past two weeks?

• The protests had seemed to have tapered off but
• whenever Russia offered the Ukraine a 15 billion dollar
• lifeline to help with the economic crisis, the protests erupted
• and the government unraveled.

What role do Russia and the West play in the Ukrainian crisis?

• The civic unrest in the Ukraine is mostly due to an outgrowth of the
• cold war. Also with the U.S. and Russia jockeying for position as
• first responders, Russia feels they need to help fast.

HOW DO YOU THINK THEY CONFLICT WILL END?

• I do not think there will be a great ending. The ukraine will
• be so economically unstable and restless I don't see a happy ending
• or everybody being happy. There will be some bitterness to this issue.

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