The War Between Ukraine and Russia: a Geopolitical Context

Abstract

The article is devoted to the consideration of the Ukraine-Russia war emergence and possible end problem in the context of geopolitical changes taking place on a global scale since 2004. Ukrainian-Russian conflict can not be perceived as exclusively borderline or regional. It has all the signs of the geopolitical conflict. In order to reveal the topic, a number of methods peculiar to historical and political sciences are used: analysis, dialectics, historical-comparative, historical-genetic, historical-systematic. The purpose of this work is to present the general development of geopolitical processes, as well as through the prism of major international actors opposition and cooperation – the USA, the EU, the Russian Federation. The article reveals the main problems facing Ukraine as a State in relations not only with Russia, but also with the US, European countries, especially its neighbors (Hungary, Poland, Belarus). It is argued that today the world community is actually not ready to solve the Ukrainian-Russian war issue. The absence of any action program from the side of the UN – a universal international organization, Ukraine and Russia being the founders at one time – witnesses about it. It is obvious, the Ukrainian-Russian not to have been solved in the near future, until the international relations to have been transformed on a global scale and a new international system to have been created.