Recently, the border conflict between Russia and Ukraine has intensified. The essence of the conflict lies in the fact that NATO's continuous eastward expansion has reduced Russia's strategic space, and the cause of the conflict has to be said to be forced to step down from former President Yanukovych. Today we will talk about Yanukovych's story.
Yanukovych was born in 1950 in donetsk Oblast in the Donbass region, in what is today the Wudong region, where most of the population is close to Russia. Thus, Yanukovych has always been a member of the pro-Russian faction in Ukraine.
After graduating from university, he went to work at the Yenakiev Steel Works. Yanukovych, who had no connection to politics, was appointed deputy governor of donetsk Oblast at the age of 46 and promoted to governor a few months later. After that, Yanukovych became the prime minister of Ukraine twice, becoming a political force that cannot be ignored in the Ukrainian political arena.
Yanukovych, who has twice run for president of Ukraine, unfortunately lost to Yushchenko for the first time. However, in 2010, he was successfully elected president of Ukraine. After being elected president, Yanukovych pressed the stop button of Ukraine's accession process to NATO, and at the same time leased the Crimea military port to Russia, which also repaid the favor, reducing the price of natural gas supplied to Ukraine by 30%.
Yanukovych's series of practices naturally aroused the resentment of Western countries. So the pro-Western forces in Ukraine, with the support of the West, successfully ousted it from power. He even wanted to wipe out the Yanukovych family once and for all. In desperation, he could only choose to ask Putin for help. In the end, it was Putin who sent special forces to rescue the Yanukovych family, and he also went to Russia to seek political asylum.
Now, Yanukovych has been in exile in Russia for eight years, and if he had remained in power, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict would not have happened. With a population of more than 40 million, Russia cannot completely annex a country of its size. The most likely outcome of the war is that Russia will support a pro-Russian spokesman as president, and this spokesperson is most likely Yanukovych.
Whether Yanukovych can return to Ukraine and return to the presidency is still an unsolved mystery, let us wait and see. After all, at the speed of Putin the Great, the world map can be re-produced in minutes.