Putin includes the Donbas in an area that he calls Novorossiya (“New Russia”), an expanse of territory that encompasses the entirety of Ukraine’s Black Sea coastline. Putin’s unprovoked military action in Ukraine, which began in 2014, marks a flagrant violation of the Budapest Memorandum, a 1994 agreement whereby Ukraine pledged to surrender its Soviet-era nuclear arsenal in exchange for acknowledgment and respect for its boundaries as an independent country.
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