Ukraine

Putin cannot tolerate the fact that Ukraine could be out of the game, out of the geography and out of this border of the zone of influence. The mere fact that Ukraine is an Eastern type of Christianity changes nothing in it. So Ukrainians chose Europe and it was inadmittable for Putin. He started with Crimea and then he moved on this with hybrid war in Donbass  and then this full scale invasion eight years later which lasts already for one year. This is about the possibility of borders to change. And it happened before in history. so we were talking about Soviet zone of influence which went quite far away to the west,. they no more belong to the zone of Influence. Yes