Expert Comment: This is no proxy war - Russia really invaded Ukraine

Published on February 21, 2023

I have to confess I did not predict Russia’s invasion of my homeland a year ago. It is a source of huge embarrassment for a researcher and student of the politics and history of the region. It is no excuse, but I am very far from being alone in this.

By Dr Vlad Mykhnenko, Associate Professor of Sustainable Urban Development, Department for Continuing Education; Fellow of St Peter's College, expertise in Post-communist transitions in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, Varieties of capitalism, Ukraine, Russia: politics, economics, regions, The Russo-Ukrainian conflict: the Crimea and the Donbas. 
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