The second anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February prompted renewed debate about the war’s origins.
For most Russian and Ukrainian democrats and Western Russia specialists, the primary cause is clear: the inability of President Vladimir Putin and his regime to tolerate an independent, sovereign Ukraine.
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Jon Richardson is a visiting fellow at the ANU Centre for European Studies, and is a former Australian diplomat who covered Eastern Europe from Moscow (both in the Soviet Union and Russian Federation), Belgrade, London and Canberra.
