Tensions rise between Russia and Ukraine: fear another confrontation

Russia and Ukraine look at each other with suspicion. Over the past decade, the Russians they managed to annex a large area and the whole border has become one of the most stressed regions in the world, where the interests of the Western powers meet the international strategy by Vladimir Putin.

The climbing between the two countries was not overnight, but gradual, almost in a mirror game: at the same time as Russia was militarily tightening its limits, the new president of the Joe biden, spoke on the phone with his Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelensky, to guarantee your “unbreakable support” in the dispute with pro-Russian separatist militias who they control part of two of their eastern provinces.

Then, last Saturday, these pro-Russian militias They denounced that a child “born in 2016” had died in a bomb attack on a drone of the Ukrainian armed forces. in the territory they control, in the city of Alexandrivske, just 15 kilometers from the front where there is still fighting or sporadic attacks.