WorksheetsRussia- Ukraine Conflict
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
Even before the massive new deployment of Russian forces, things were bad between Kyiv and Moscow, a rift that dates back to at least as far as February 2014 (if not further). What happened then?
Viktor Yushchenko was elected to a second term as Ukraine’s president.
Russia started handing out passports to ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine claimed 19th century writer Nikolai Gogol was in fact Ukrainian, not Russian.
Protests in Kyiv over a plan to integrate more closely with Russia culminated in violent clashes, and the ouster of the pro-Russian president.
If Russia sends troops into Ukraine in the coming weeks, the United States has promised to invoke NATO’s Article V clause, obligating the alliance to come to the military aid of Ukraine.
True
False
For some experts, the Budapest Memorandum also played a significant role in paving the way for today’s tensions with Russia. What was it?
It laid out the terms for the breakup of the Soviet Union.
It was the deal under Russia assumed, and paid off, the accumulated debts of the Soviet Union.
It was the deal under which Ukraine agreed to give up its remaining stockpile of nuclear weapons.
It was the agreement under which Soviet forces withdrew from the Hungarian capital after 1956.
A referendum was held in Crimea in March 2014, in which Russia says an overwhelming majority of voters on the Ukrainian peninsula voted to unite the region with Russia. True or false?
True
False
What event occurred in July 2014 that for many experts provided the first incontrovertible evidence that Russia was equipping fighters in eastern Ukraine?
The Battle of Debaltseve.
Evidence of an alleged coup, fomented by the Russian FSB, aiming to depose President Petro Poroshenko and seize power.
The shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine by a sophisticated anti-aircraft missile system known as the Buk.
The seizure of three Ukrainian naval ships by Russian Coast Guard forces near the Kerch Strait.
Russia has warned Western countries, first and foremost the United States, against supplying Ukrainian forces with lethal weaponry. Have they?
Yes. The United States has provided ammunition, anti-tank guided missiles, and other weaponry.
No. Only flak jackets, night-vision goggles, and first-aid kits have been supplied, mainly from Sweden, Luxembourg, and Portugal.
Yes. NATO has provided Abrams M1 tanks, Paladin howitzers, and other equipment.
No. The West has limited its support to Ukraine only in the form of financing for anti-corruption and good governance initiatives.
What is the Steinmeier Formula?
A mathematical calculus that predicts the future of Ukraine-Russia relations.
A chemical formula that is the basis for the high explosives used in Ukraine’s most powerful missiles.
A German plan that seeks to implement the Minsk Accords through a specific sequence of events.
A Russian plan conceived in the early 1990s that laid the groundwork for NATO enlargement.
Which of these arguments has been used by Russia to justify its 2014 annexation of Crimea?
To help spread Orthodox Christianity beyond Russia’s borders.
To protect the rights of Crimean Tatars.
To honor the memory of Sevastopol, which suffered through an eight-month siege during World War II that ultimately ended with German forces seizing the port.
To seize Ukraine’s Black Sea naval fleet.
To right what it portrays as a historical error committed by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
Public opinion polls show that large numbers of Ukrainians and Russians oppose outright war. Ukrainians overwhelmingly backed Zelenskiy’s election in 2019 based on his pledge to bring peace to eastern Ukraine. And despite bellicose rhetoric, it’s unclear really if Putin and the Kremlin are willing to stomach images of Russians returning home from the battlefield in body bags. What is the biggest obstacle to implementing the Minsk Accords?
The way Kyiv sees it, they give Moscow too much power over Ukraine.
Moscow and Kyiv can’t agree on the sequence of steps for implementing them.
Russia claims it has no role in the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
Moscow and Kyiv can’t even agree on who should do the negotiating.
All of the above.
Which of the following has Putin said or written with regards to Ukraine?
“I am confident that true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible only in partnership with Russia…. Together we have always been and will be many times stronger and more successful. For we are one people.”
“The current president of this exhausted country is a person of certain ethnic roots.”
"At any moment, there’s potential in Ukraine for an outburst of tensions so strong that millions of Ukrainians will flee to seek refuge in other places."
“Ukraine is a sovereign, independent nation. And every sovereign, independent nation has the right to choose its own path, including what kind of security arrangements it wants to be part of.”
