Abstract

The Ukrainian crisis that began in 2013 with a series of protests across the country eventually turned into a war conflict that militarily confronted the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the separatist forces of the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Lugansk and Donetsk. Despite being a low-intensity conflict, it has already claimed about 10,000 lives and is in danger of becoming one of many stagnant conflicts. In order to know how this has been achieved, it is necessary to analyze the historical and political events in Ukraine, to study the role of nationalism in the region and, above all, to emphasize the relationship with Russia in the post-Soviet space of influence.</