Why Did Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Happen?

An enormous proportion of the organized lethal violence of the twentieth century happens in and around ukraine. There is this kind of deadly triangle between the baltic, the black sea and the balkans where just a terrific amount of conflict has taken place. So if one asks the question, why did this happen? The obvious answer is that vladimir puttin, the russian president, resolved to bring ukraine back under russia's control,. We can't know whether he aspired to annex ukrane or simply to restore it to its vassal state of aphony, independence.