COFFEY: Well, they have done a number of things. You had a disenfranchised, or I should say a marginalized, to be more accurate, sector of Ukrainian society in Eastern Ukraine and, also, in Crimea that became very susceptible to Russian hybrid warfare and misinformation, and that set the conditions for the eventual invasion of Crimea and the separatist conflict that is produced by Russia that didn't exist before in Eastern Ukraine. It has a lot of people. Yet disturbances continued throughout Eastern Ukraine, where local Bolsheviks, peasant self-defense groups known as "green armies", and the anarchist Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine refused to subordinate to Germany. As election looms, window narrows for action in criminal investigation into Rudy Giuliani and associates, German ambassador pick disparaged immigrants and refugees, called for martial law at US-Mexico border, House Foreign Affairs chairman subpoenas Secretary of State Pompeo, Devin Nunes declines to say whether he received foreign information meant to damage Biden, Bubble waffles: The uniquely Hong Kong snack that's popping up around the world, Belarus says it's arrested Russian mercenaries, as rift grows between strongmen Putin and Lukashenko, Vindman tweets on anniversary of Trump's call with Zelensky that led to impeachment, Hostage siege ends in Ukraine after President agrees to recommend 2005 Joaquin Phoenix film, Dale: 911 claim in Trump ad is nonsense, pure fearmongering, Democrats raise concerns over Russian-linked campaign targeting Biden, US works to bolster Ukraine's Navy to confront Russian threat, Lying again about the pandemic, Trump made 200 false claims from early June to early July, Gowdy worked with Giuliani on legal matter ahead of impeachment proceedings, new documents show, Exclusive: Vindman to retire from military. Then you have major ports, port cities that while are still under the control of the Ukrainian government, the shipping to and from these ports are heavily restricted and, in some cases, blocked by Russia which impacts the Ukrainian economy as well. There's no fighting that goes on there. The Imperial German and Austro-Hungarian armies then drove the Bolsheviks out of Ukraine, taking Kiev on March 1. What is the Kerch Strait, and why is it significant?

Bullets are flying, soldiers are dying or being wounded every week, and it's a real-life affair. We don't allow anybody, and the Russians will pay a huge price if they attack us. Well, I say partial, because it's only in certain parts of the country, about half of the country. COFFEY: What we see today in Russia is not soviet behavior, it's imperial behavior. CORDERO: In a sense is it anything that would rise tensions further? He took it. Look at his Twitter account.". In June 1941, Germany and its allies invaded the Soviet Union and conquered Ukraine completely within the first year of the conflict. The cause and purpose of French intervention was not entirely clear; French military leaders quickly became disillusioned by internal quarrels within the anti-Bolshevik forces that prevented effective collaboration against Bolshevik pressures, and they particularly criticized the White Russian Volunteer Army for its arrogance towards the local population.