THE MELTING OF THE UKRAINIAN CRISIS

Abstract

The Ukrainian crisis that emerged in the fall of 2013, after the putsch in February 2014, got its armed epilogue, calmed by the Minsk II agreement in February 2015. The crisis later continued to exist, but without direct armed conflict. That crisis was expressed in the contradictions between the Russophile population of the Southeast and the Ukrainian conception of official Kiev supported by the Northwestern part of the country. The crisis was expressed in discrepancies between official Ukraine and Russia, and deepened with the opening of the church issue in 2018-2019. The Ukrainian crisis is also gaining wider geopolitical character because the USA and NATO are supporting Ukrainian-Russian contradictions and further emancipation of Ukrainian identity from the Russian tradition. On the other hand, with the arrival of President Zelensky in 2019 instead of Poroshenko and the change of the Government after the parliamentary elections and the series of measures, we get the impression that there is a certain warming in the Ukrainian-Russian relations. In this paper these hints are analyzed, as well as how realistic is that it comes to the more serious relaxation in the Ukrainian crisis and Ukrainian-Russian relations.