How to respond to Putin’s undeclared war
How to respond to Putin’s undeclared war

Summary/Abstract: In late February 2014 the Russian incursion into Ukraine began on the Crimean Peninsula. By February 23rd, then Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych had disappeared from Kyiv. With his flight, Vladimir Putin’s man in Ukraine evaded accountability for the lethal use of force against the pro-European protesters on the Maidan during the Revolution of Dignity. The Kremlin’s propaganda machine portrayed Yanukovych’s escape to Russia and the subsequent instalment of an interim president by the Ukrainian parliament as a fascist coup d’état. As early as the day after his departure, Putin declared that measures would have to be taken to bring the Ukrainian Crimean Peninsula back into the Russian fold. When more and more Russian soldiers began appearing in Crimea during the last days of February, international reports spoke of “little green men”.

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