The resentment that caused the fall of the Soviet Union continues to be the fuel with which Putin fuels his imperial project in Ukraine. It will be two years since Vladimir Putin's forces tried to reach Kiev to place a puppet government there that would obey their designs.

The war that with its comings and goings was still alive since 2014 in the provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk has moved almost 10 years later, in February 2022, to the rest of Ukraine. The fury left by that fall is still intact, Putin exploits it, and hopes to prolong the war in Ukraine until he can win it.