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With a [[diplomatic]] solution rejected out of hand by the United States and NATO, the Russian Federation entered Ukraine on February 24, 2022 to put a stop to the eight year war against the people of the Donbas by the Kyiv regime which had already claimed 14,000 lives.  After more than two weeks fighting claiming more civilian lives with NATO-supplied weapons, on March 11, 2022, EU external minister Josep Borrell back peddled on EU policy which provoked the war saying, "I am ready to admit that we made a number of mistakes and that we lost the possibility of Russia’s rapprochement with the West.  There are moments that we could do better, there are things that we proposed and then could not implement, such as, for example, the promise that Ukraine and Georgia will become part of NATO."<ref>https://www.dailysabah.com/world/europe/west-made-mistake-in-promising-ukraine-nato-membership-borrell</ref>  The following day NATO Secretary-General [[Jens Stoltenberg]] began walking back NATO threats to Russia by saying membership for Ukraine was not relevant or on the agenda.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/ukraines-nato-membership-is-not-relevant-or-on-the-agenda-jens-stoltenberg_4333429.html</ref>

With a [[diplomatic]] solution rejected out of hand by the United States and NATO, the Russian Federation entered Ukraine on February 24, 2022 to put a stop to the eight year war against the people of the Donbas by the Kyiv regime which had already claimed 14,000 lives.  After more than two weeks fighting claiming more civilian lives with NATO-supplied weapons, on March 11, 2022, EU external minister Josep Borrell back peddled on EU policy which provoked the war saying, "I am ready to admit that we made a number of mistakes and that we lost the possibility of Russia’s rapprochement with the West.  There are moments that we could do better, there are things that we proposed and then could not implement, such as, for example, the promise that Ukraine and Georgia will become part of NATO."<ref>https://www.dailysabah.com/world/europe/west-made-mistake-in-promising-ukraine-nato-membership-borrell</ref>  The following day NATO Secretary-General [[Jens Stoltenberg]] began walking back NATO threats to Russia by saying membership for Ukraine was not relevant or on the agenda.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/ukraines-nato-membership-is-not-relevant-or-on-the-agenda-jens-stoltenberg_4333429.html</ref>

===Historiography===

==Historiography==

The scholarly study of the Ukraine's history emerged from romantic impulses in the late 19th century.  The outstanding leaders were Volodymyr Antonovych (1834-1908), based in Kiev,  and  his student Michael Hrushevsky (1866-1934).<ref>Serhii Plokhy, ''Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History'' (2005)</ref> For the first time full-scale scholarly studies based on archival sources, modern research techniques, and modern historical theories became possible. However, the demands of government officials—especially Soviet, but also Czarists and Polish—made it difficult to disseminate ideas that ran counter to the central government. Therefore, exile schools of historians emerged in central Europe and Canada after 1920.<ref>KubijovyČ, ed. ''Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia'' (1963) 1:559-74</ref>

The scholarly study of the Ukraine's history emerged from romantic impulses in the late 19th century.  The outstanding leaders were Volodymyr Antonovych (1834-1908), based in Kiev,  and  his student Michael Hrushevsky (1866-1934).<ref>Serhii Plokhy, ''Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History'' (2005)</ref> For the first time full-scale scholarly studies based on archival sources, modern research techniques, and modern historical theories became possible. However, the demands of government officials—especially Soviet, but also Czarists and Polish—made it difficult to disseminate ideas that ran counter to the central government. Therefore, exile schools of historians emerged in central Europe and Canada after 1920.<ref>KubijovyČ, ed. ''Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopedia'' (1963) 1:559-74</ref>