{"id":177284,"date":"2022-04-26T12:52:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T09:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=177284"},"modified":"2022-04-26T12:52:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T09:52:05","slug":"ukraine-in-flames-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/ukraine-in-flames-46","title":{"rendered":"Why is Russia’s war against Ukraine not a “Ukrainian crisis”?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Wording about a war is part of a war itself. The Russo-Ukrainian war started eight years ago. Russia overtook Crimea and parts of the Donbas and Luhansk regions and installed pro-Russian governments on the occupied Ukrainian territories. Part of Russia\u2019s justification to invade was to aid Russian-speaking Ukrainians in protecting themselves against the post-Euromaidan \u2018junta\u2019 or \u2018failed state\u2019. Russian propagandists facilitated any terms to avoid calling their invasion a war against Ukraine: civil war, armed conflict, humanitarian mission, special operation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The international media often followed, failing to recognise the developments between Russia and Ukraine as a war. The popular wordings like \u201cconflict in Ukraine\u201d or \u201cUkrainian crisis\u201d objectify Ukraine, put part of the blame for the war on Ukraine, question Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty as an independent state, and deny tens of thousands of people legal recognition as victims of Russia\u2019s war crimes. Past eight years, when the Russo-Ukrainian war is raging, the only just way to call war is war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One can no longer sit at the grand chessboard and belittle the events that have already put the world in a crisis. Ukraine in Flames #46 illustrates why to call the ongoing war in Europe \u201ca Ukrainian crisis\u201d or \u201ca conflict in Ukraine\u201d is to cynically deny reality and \u00a0to support Russia\u2019s narratives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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