Ukraine's Diplomatic Efforts to Gain Security in the Crimean Conflict.

UKRAINIAN foreign relations, 1991-; INTERNATIONAL conflict; PUTIN, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-; INTERNATIONAL relations; INTERNATIONAL arbitration; PREVENTION

The article reports on the diplomatic efforts of the Ukrainian government to have access to the security at the conflict in Kyiv, Crimea. After the complete annexation of Ukraine to Russia, it performed concentrated diplomatic efforts to decrease the crisis and to deter Russia from invading the mainland. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimier Putin, during his address to the Federal Assembly on March 18, 2014, promised not to separate Ukraine further.