2023-06-09 12:23:48
“This war is, in fact, a continuation of the disintegration of the Russian Empire,” Ukrainian-born American historian Sergey Plokhy said in an interview with the BBC.
Professor of Harvard University, one of the most influential researchers of the history of Ukraine, Sergey Plokhy is known for his bestseller “The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine”.
A year after the beginning of Russia’s large-scale aggression against Ukraine, his book “The Russian-Ukrainian War” was published. Here he shows both the causes of the war and how it changed the modern world.
“Now there is an impression that war was inevitable,” Plokhiy told BBC Ukyaina reporter Yevgeny Shidlovsky. – Did I see him at the beginning of 2022 – in January, February? I saw the signs, but I didn’t want to see them like most Ukrainians. That is, I saw it, but I repeatedly denied the inevitability of war.
According to the scientist, at that time the war did not seem favorable for Russia. Moreover, the Russian army was not sufficiently prepared. Russia started aggression “on the basis of ephemeral impressions about Ukraine”.
In his new book, Sergey Plokshiy examines the factors that led to the 2014 war, starting in 1991, while summing up the 2014 war and a year of full-scale aggression.
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