Welcome to the European Parliamentary Research Service Podcasts.

In this podcast, we'll talk about Russia's brutal expansionism,

analyze its impact on the EU,

and discuss different scenarios on Russia's possible behavior in the next years, up to 2030.

Geopolitics is back.

Will he? No. Geopolitics is back.

Will he? No. He wouldn't dare.

Well, he actually might.

Doubts about Putin's real intentions in Ukraine were quickly dispelled on the 24th of February,

as he announced a special military operation to, in his own words, demilitarize and denazify Ukraine.

Only minutes later, missiles and airstrikes hit across the country, including the capital, Kyiv.

A full-blown invasion had begun.

In response to this unprovoked attack on Ukraine, the EU, together with its allies, agreed on

massive sanctions, including an oil ban to hit its economic base, maximise the political cost

for Russia's political elite responsible for the invasion and cripple the Kremlin's ability

to finance the war. And what's more? Agreed on 2 billion euros assistance to the Ukrainian

armed forces under the European peace facility. The war on Ukraine is the latest manifestation

of Russia's revisionist policy over the past decade, but not the only one. In 2014,

it seized and illegally annexed Crimea, and encouraged by the shy international response,

orchestrated a series of pro-Russian uprisings throughout the south and east of the country,

prompting a war between Ukraine and Russian-backed

separatists in the Donbass. In response, Russia's G8 membership was suspended, and political

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