VICTOIRE THE RUSSION INVASION OF UKRAINE A WAR UNLIKE ANY OTHER IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
MARCH 2022
Table of Contents The Russian Invasion on Ukraine…………….……1 – 5 Russia Invades Ukraine…………………….….…2 Unity Through Turmoil……………….………...3 Worlds Response to the Invasion………….…4 Donations for Ukraine……………......…...……7 Causes of the Invasion……………………………8 The Cancellation of Nord Stream 2…………9 The Effects of the Russian Invasion on Aviation………………………………10
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine First, they take Crimea. And then they take it all.
“There is no purgatory for war criminals. They go straight to hell.” - Sergiy Kyslytsya
“The prayers of the entire world are with the people of Ukraine” – President Biden
Russia Invades Ukraine One of the biggest global catastrophes of the 21st century, RUSSIAN FORCES walk through the Ukrainian border. Fear of a Russian invasion of Ukraine have been around for years but no one really expected the bubble to burst. Once it did, fear struck the everyone hard, the Ukrainians
Putin called the war a “special
harder. February 24, 2022 is the day the
military operation”, refusing to call
bubble popped.
it all-out war. His already negative reputation went ground-breakingly low, cementing
Videos of the invasion, from the bombings of himself as one of Russia’s worst leaders of all Kyiv and Kharkiv to the speech of Ukrainian time. president Zelensky, circulated across the internet overnight. Putin and Russia’s
Misinformation runs deep in Russian media
reputation plummetted faster than their
which is how Putin gets his support.
economy while journalists flood the field to
However, not all of the them are falling for it.
report the damage caused.
Called the “Information War”, supporters of both side do their best in the fighting and spreading of both information and misionformation. A month later and the situation looks dire for Russia. Only time will tell when peace talks will succeed.
UNITY THROUGH TURMOIL One major thing that the Russian invasion has done is unite the world against them. Millions of dollars worth of medical
aid,
food,
water,
shelter, and other life-saving things
were
delivered
to
Ukraine to help them in their As many as 20,000 nonUkrainian
residents
volunteered to join the war. There is so many of them to the point that they form their own foreign legion. Countries across the world like the United States of America, Poland, Moldova, Romania, and Slovakia vowed to let in Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war.
war.
World’s Response to the Invasion So So far, far, the the response response to to the the invasion invasion of of Ukraine Ukraine by by Russia Russia is is heavily heavily leaning leaning towards towards Ukraine. Ukraine. In In aa world world that that is is against against warfare warfare and and human human suffering, suffering, such such aa response response towards towards the the war war is is to to be be expected. expected. The The only only country country supporting supporting Russia Russia is is Serbia Serbia but but they’re they’re only only one one country country against against many. many.
“President Zelenskyy, Ukraine can count on our help.” – Olaf Scholz, Prime Minister of Germany
“We “We are are in in full full and and total total agreement. agreement. We We will will limit limit Russia’s Russia’s ability ability to to do do business business in in Dollars, Dollars, Euros, Euros, Pounds, Pounds, and and Yen Yen to to be be part part of of the the global global economy. economy. We We will will limit limit their their ability ability to to do do that. that. We We are are going going to to stunt stunt the the ability ability to to finance finance and and grow grow RusRus- — — the the Russian Russian military.” military.” –Joe –Joe Biden, Biden, President President of of the the USA USA
Donations for Ukraine Organizations like UNICEF, Direct Relief, World Vision, Mercy Corps, and the International Medial Corps have opened up doors for donations. You can donate anything useful for the people, from food and water to washing machines and tents.
Here you can see a photo of a Ukrainian family receiving aide.
Another major reason is the fact that Ukraine is warm and welcoming towards the west. Putin hates
The Kremlin’s initial aim was to take over
the west and doesn’t want to share any border with
Ukraine and get rid of their government. Putin
their allies. The border with the Baltic nations is
has stated that this is to prevent the “Nazis” in
short and Belarus is one of Russia’s allies. Ukraine,
Ukraine from invading Russia in the future.
on the other hand, is not one of Russia’s allies. Some of you may be questioning where he has Lastly, Russia has gas pipelines running through
gotten the proof for this. Through forging false
Ukraine. This means that Russia has little control
information and distributing them by the
on the parts of the pipelines within Ukraine which
masses, to the masses, Putin received the right
makes it difficult for the to leverage their threats of
condition and the go signal for the invasion.
natural gases against the west.
Causes of the Invasion
The Cancellation of Nord Stream 2
Another one of the consequences of Russia’s invasion is the cancellation of Nord Stream 2. Europe is slowly but surely going further away from Russia, reducing their dependency on Russian gas. Of course, this will take a lot of time.
Effects of the Russian Invasion on Aviation Many governments and airlines has banned flights on Russian airspace. This also means that Russian Airlines can’t make any flights to Europe until further notice. A flgith from London to Tokyo on average takes 12 hours but with the ban, the new route takes 14 hurs and 38 minutes. That’s an additional 2 hours.
However, that is only on western governments and airlines. For Asian airlines, they have an advantage which western airlines don’t have: access to Russian airspace.