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[Mark Kohut]

"What’s more, the issue isn’t only about security. “That the Kremlin goes
so far out of its way to deny the legitimacy of the [President Volodymyr]
Zelensky government, and even at times the Ukrainian state, [suggests] this
is about more than Russia's security,” said Frye. “Even if there was no
military threat from Ukraine, Russia would still be very interested in the
domestic political arrangements in Ukraine”.

For example, consider that when Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, the catalyst
was not Nato membership but a potential trade pact between Ukraine and the
European Union. (Though to conclude that that means the European Union was
the sole problem would also be too simple; as Frye said, “The EU is in some
ways the crystallisation of this broader trend and a good example of
Ukraine's evolution away from Moscow”.)"