Four maps that explain the Russia-Ukraine conflict

1/21/22
 
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from The Washington Post,
1/20/22:

The conflict playing out between Russia and Ukraine is one marked by land borders and shaped by strategic influence. Moscow sees Ukraine as an important buffer to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO. Ukraine sees Russia as an aggressor that has already occupied parts of Ukrainian territory.

Here are four maps that help explain the deep roots of the conflict and where things stand right now.

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