Episode 7: Why is Ukraine important for Russia ?
Leave a reviewToday's story begins over 30 years ago when a rather large country called the Soviet Union broke off into smaller units. One of them is a unit we call today as Russia. Many Russians were sad that some land parts that were close to their heart were lost to them. One of them was Ukraine. An old Russian civilisation called the Ruriks had set up their rule from Kiev, which is today the capital of Ukraine. In today's episode, we cover fun facts about Ukraine (did you know that Ukraine is the biggest country in Europe ?) and about what happened to Ukraine as the story progressed over the next few years.Listen to the episode to understand why Russia took away a small part of Ukraine called Crimea in 2014 and what Russia is trying to do now, by assembling more than 170,000 troops along the Russia – Ukraine border.Are we about to have another war ? Or is this all a nice little game of bluff ?If you have an answer to our question that you would like to be played in our next episode, please email your audio message to hello@wsnt.in
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Today's story begins over 30 years ago when a rather large country called the Soviet Union broke off into smaller units. One of them is a unit we call today as Russia. Many Russians were sad that some land parts that were close to their heart were lost to them. One of them was Ukraine. An old Russian civilisation called the Ruriks had set up their rule from Kiev, which is today the capital of Ukraine.
In today's episode, we cover fun facts about Ukraine (did you know that Ukraine is the biggest country in Europe ?) and about what happened to Ukraine as the story progressed over the next few years.
Listen to the episode to understand why Russia took away a small part of Ukraine called Crimea in 2014 and what Russia is trying to do now, by assembling more than 170,000 troops along the Russia – Ukraine border.
Are we about to have another war ? Or is this all a nice little game of bluff ?
If you have an answer to our question that you would like to be played in our next episode, please email your audio message to hello@wsnt.in
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