Ukraine and Russia were originally members of the Soviet Union, while the Soviet Union pushed for the division of labor of the republics, Ukraine and Russia had close cooperation, Ukraine also has developed industrial capabilities, the capacity of Ukraine to build aircraft carriers can be seen from Ukraine. The Russian Navy's Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, as well as the predecessor of the Liberation Army aircraft carrier Liaoning, were built in Ukraine near the Black Sea Nikolayev shipyard. Ukraine not only has the capacity to build large ships, but also has the capacity to develop large engines, including gas turbines for ships, so for a long time, Russia has imported shipping engines from Ukraine, including diesel engines and so on.
The relationship between Russia and Ukraine changed in 2014, when Crimea declared independence through a referendum, and subsequently joined the Russian Federation, so that Ukraine and Russia were publicly split. In fact, the change in Crimea was that Ukraine turned completely to the West, for which Russia gave Ukraine a strong warning, but Ukraine was already obsessed and continued to go on the path of confrontation with Russia, so that Russia launched a "special military operation" in the territory of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. according to Ukrainian media reports, Ukrainian President Zelensky suddenly announced on October 4 that Ukraine would sanction Russia, which immediately aroused foreign attention.
Zelensky announced the sanctions against Russia, has been quite self-sufficient with the support of the United States, for this gambling the slow pace of Moscow, Zelensky's remarks have been that Ukraine has already mastered the initiative andined the superior position for Russia, so can impose sanctions on Russia. For a long time, Western countries will use the tools of sanctions against developing countries, including all kinds of emerging countries, but now Ukraine has also taken the sanctions, to impose sanctions on Russia, for this immediately aroused the attention of the outside world. Ukraine has been trying to join NATO, after the outbreak of the Russian conflict, Ukraine announced the application for NATO, so that the outside world to see the strategic direction of Ukraine.
Recently, the U.S. has again taken a high-pressure stance on Russia, most notably the U.S. threat to supply tactical cruise missiles to Ukraine, in fact, the land-based tactical cruise missile is that the U.S. has not many long-range combat weapons, but the U.S. is considering providing related military aid to Ukraine. The tactical cruise missile is a large number of U.S. naval equipment and is repeatedly used for real-world weapons, especially the U.S. use of tactical cruise missiles in the Middle East, including related weapons used for Syria, and has recently projected tactical cruise missiles against Iran. If the U.S. provides tactical missiles to Ukraine, the U.S. representative and Ukraine relationship has a new development, but also high
Ukraine has overestimated its capabilities and influence, Russia has been sanctioned by the West for years, if added to the sanctions of Ukraine, it will still not let Russia have too much influence, so when the Ukrainian President Zelensky announced the sanctions against Russia, Russia was taking the attitude, in fact, Russia can easily counter the Ukrainian authorities in Kiev, because Russia has controlled the outbound and air control of Ukraine, so the so-called sanctions are Ukraine or Russia injured, has been very obvious.