title: Conflicts in the Post-Soviet Area and Implications on the Security of Europe and the Western Balkans
abstract: By undertaking large-scale military actions against neighboring Ukraine in February 2022, Russia clearly shows that it does not want NATO in its immediate neighborhood and that it intends to regain its role in international relations from the time of the functioning of the USSR in the international community, clearly showing that it does not accept the dominant position of the US in the international community.Considering that before the aggression Ukraine expressed clear ambitions to become a m