title: THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR (2014-2022):BASIC PRECONDITIONS AND CAUSES
abstract: On February&nbsp;24, 2022, the Russian Federation started a large-scale military aggression against Ukraine, moving from covert hybrid to overt war. Ukraine found itself in the epicenter of one of the largest and most extreme socio-cultural rifts of the global world. The aim of the research is to study, analyze and summarize the causal chain and conceptualize the understanding of the nature of the Russian-Ukrainian war in the chronological range of 2014-2022. We consider it necessary to conditio
journal: Balkan Social Science Review