Ben was a family
Ukraine and Russia are actually of the same lineage, both are historicalLys, the Ancient Rus' people.
The Ancient Rus' were scattered throughout Eastern Europe, and after encountering ancient Viking tribes and intermarriing with them, they established the Principality of Moscow around the 10th century AD. It can be said that the ancestors of Ukraine and Russia were kievan rus' and muscovites.
But both countries were unlucky, encountering Mongol armies in the 13th century. The Muscovite principality was spanked by the Mongols in 1220 and could only be saved by kneeling down and kissing Battu Khan as a sign of loyalty, while Kievan Rus' failed to resist the iron hooves of the Mongol army, and in 1240 it was rushed into Kievan Rus by the Mongol army, and could only surrender to the Mongols.
The Kievan Rus' and Muscovite principalities have since become vassal states of the Golden Horde, and the fate of kievan Rus'and Muscovite principalities has led to the division of the Rus' people.
The Muscovite Principality absorbed the Culture of the Great Mongols and drove out the Mongols on its own after more than a century of dormancy.
Kievan Rus' and Poland joined forces to repel the declining Mongols, but eastern Ukraine, which had been occupied by the Mongols for a long time, developed an independent language and folklore.
This process laid the foundation for instability in Ukraine, because there are cultural differences between the west and east of Ukraine, so there are inherent contradictions between the west and the east, and the west and the east look at each other incorrectly.
Love and hate
The ethnic groups of the west of Ukraine and Poland joined forces to bully the peoples of the east. But the Cossacks in the east did not want to be beaten all the time, so what to do? I couldn't beat it again, so I hugged my thigh. In 1654, Ukraine allied itself with the Russian Tsar and incorporated eastern Ukraine into the rising Russian Empire.
Hearing this news, the western Ukraine gas does not come out, you boy has thighs, I dare not beat you too! The two sides turned to a fierce and short-lived war. Although western Ukraine had polish support, it could not withstand the ferocious attack of the Russian army, and the whole of Ukraine was completely annexed by Russia in the 18th century.
This rule lasted for nearly two hundred years, and when Russia disintegrated in 1917, Ukraine couldn't see its big brother. Thus the National Independence Movement broke out and the Ukrainian People's Republic was established. But the republic was too short-lived, and soon eastern Ukraine was incorporated into the nascent Soviet Union, while the western part fell into Polish hands. Later, the Soviet Union sent troops to capture the Polish-controlled western part of Ukraine. At the time, Ukrainians thought their day was coming and that Ukraine's national independence was at hand.
However, the actual situation made Ukraine at that time feel cold, and the big brother of the Soviet Union believed that Ukraine belonged to Russia and deserved his little brother. Ukrainian nationalists, on the other hand, have always wanted independence and do not want to recognize this big brother, so the conflict between the two sides has become increasingly fierce.
Conflict intensifies
After the end of the Soviet-German war, the national mood in Ukraine gradually subsided, and Big Brother also gave a lot of benefits, and in the post-war reconstruction, it also focused on strengthening the industrial level of the Ukrainian region.
The large number of Russian immigrants has made the local Ukrainians feel that they have other people living in their homes, which is very dissatisfied. The leak coincided with overnight rain and the Chernobyl incident, which was very dissatisfied with the Soviet government throughout Ukraine, and Ukrainian nationalist and independent sentiments once again rose.
After the collapse of the Soviet edifice in 1991, Ukraine also took the opportunity to break away from the Soviet Union and become its own big brother. Logically speaking, Ukraine should have been a very strong industrial country, and has a high agricultural base, can rely on doing business with Russia, sell heavy industrial products in exchange for Russia's low-cost energy, give full play to its role as a "land bridge", and become a channel for Russia to connect europe.
But the Ukrainian government and the economic oligarchs who control the Ukrainian government have not done so, but have de-industrialized, squeezed the population of eastern Ukraine and wanted to throw themselves into the arms of the European Union.
But this strategy not only left eastern Ukraine resentful of the Ukrainian government, but Ukraine itself became a pawn seen by Western European countries and the United States as a pawn to contain Russia's rise. Poor Ukraine not only lost the watermelon, but also did not pick up the sesame seeds, not only did not get any benefits, but became a tool to be thrown away.
Because the eastern part of Ukraine is culturally close to Russia, Ukraine regards the east as a thorn in the eye and constantly oppresses the eastern part of Ukraine, which leads the eastern part of Ukraine to choose to ally with Russia in order to seek independence.
Russia, on the other hand, believes that if Ukraine completely falls to Western Europe and the United States, then NATO's knife will be put on Russia's neck, so Russia must prevent this situation anyway.
In such a situation, the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, but behind it is actually the long-standing contradiction between Russia and Ukraine, and the United States and Western European countries are secretly acting as pushers to make this war more and more intense.
epilogue
In today's Battlefield in Ukraine, although the feud between Ukraine and Russia is a relatively large proportion, what is more important is the great power game between Western countries and Russia behind the scenes.