The knowledge of memorial issues of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict could help a clear understanding of this war. The situation of nowadays will be also presented. The clash of two conceptions of the State: an Imperial/paternalistic order against a Freedom/autonomy and a rule of law has its historical roots in the Russian tradition of “king father” and in the Ukrainian tradition of elections and councils of the Cossacks. The Russian-Ukrainian conflict is a deep conflict of values. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia and Ukraine have developed different identities based on opposing histories and memories. While a liberal approach prevailed in Ukraine, an authoritarian approach prevailed in Russia. Thus, the full-scale war waged by Russia against Ukraine since February 2022 has lasted due to fierce Ukrainian resistance linked to a national identity that identifies with the democratic regime.

Oksana Mitrofanova, PhD in Political Science, is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Transatlantic Research at the Institute of World History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv and an assistant professor-researcher at INALCO (National Institute of Oriental Languages ​​and Civilizations). She has been a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Paris II Panthéon – Assas, France on numerous occasions, a Visiting researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, a Visiting researcher at the Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland.

Author of more than 80 publications and analytical notes for the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, for the Embassy of Ukraine in France and the Parliament of Ukraine. Speaker at international conferences in Budapest, Indianapolis, Kyiv, Lisbon, Lviv, Paris, Warsaw. A regular speaker on French channels LCI and France 24, she has also published in Le Monde, Libération and The Conversation.

Taking into account that for a long time there have been no clearly outlined and articulated priorities of Ukraine’s foreign policy, probably due to multivector policy concept, it is seen as necessary to highlight them in chronological and comprehensive manner, to identify what were the key countries and challenges to deal with. The (non) efficiency of the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances signed at the OSCE conference in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 December 1994, to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) will define the future security system. As a result of the memorandum Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons. Being a signatory of Budapest Memorandum Russia has launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine by land, air and sea, the biggest attack by one state against another in Europe since World War II.

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