Starting with the 2014 Euro-Maidan protests and continuing over the last eight years, a political crisis in Ukraine fomented by Russian hegemonic interests has boiled over into a full-fledged war. 

This guide is intended to help provide an overview of the conflict - how it started and how it progressed - and to provide resources to stay up to date with events as they occur. Due to the nature of Information Warfare there may be a number of inauthentic or misleading sources about this subject, so this guide will also give a brief overview on how to recognize disinformation and to stop its spread. 

Finally, the guide also has a number of links to reputable charity and aid organizations that are providing assistance to those affected by the war. 

Foreign Affairs: How to Understand the Crisis in Ukraine: The Origins of the Conflict and What Comes Next: www.foreignaffairs.com/lists/2022-02-24/how-understand-crisis-ukraine

Pulitzer Center https://pulitzercenter.org/country/ukraine?page=0

JSTOR Daily: https://daily.jstor.org/russia-and-the-soviet-union-background-readings/… 

Nationalities Papers: https://cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers/special-collections/ukraine-articles-from-nationalities-papers…

Communist and Post-Communist Studies: https://ucpress.edu/blog/58357/russia-ukraine-and-the-west-a-cpcs-virtual-issue/