Do you know why Russia started the war and what the repercussions have been?
After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine became an independent country. Until then, both Russia and Ukraine had been part of the former USSR.
In 2014, Russia invaded Ukraine and conquered a small peninsula (that’s a part of the land that sticks out into the sea) called Crimea. Most people who lived there speak Russian and think of themselves as more Russian than Ukrainian.
Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, said he was protecting the Russian citizens and Russian speakers that were living there and giving them their freedom.
Since then, there has been occasional fighting there between Ukrainian and Russian troops.
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