Frida Ghitis, journalist and CNN contributor, assures that Ukraine's geopolitical importance for Russia is not compared to that of other countries in the region.
The current tension and the possibility of Russia invading the former Soviet republic are also related to Ukraine's rapprochement with the West.
Marta Ochman, doctor in Social Sciences and research professor at the School of Social Sciences of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, adds that the so-called "ideological construction of the Russian world" is decisive.
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