UK-Ukraine Crisis/Sanction

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FILE: Brussels, Belgium – Feb 12, 2019 (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of flags of NATO members, NATO flag in front of NATO headquarters
2. NATO star sculpture
3. Flags of NATO members, NATO flag

Oxford, UK – July 7, 2022 (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Pravda, senior research fellow at Russian and East European Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford:
“As an academic analysis, it’s that NATO expansion at the pace it started to take on in the early 2000 and especially after 2008 created conditions which made Russia’s intervention in its near border, Ukraine included, more likely. I take the line that NATO expansion was a contributory factor.”

FILE: Moscow, Russia – May 9, 2018 (CGTN – No access Chinese mainland)
5. Various of boat sailing on river, Grand Kremlin Palace, traffic

FILE: Washington D.C., USA – Date Unknown (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
6. Various of Capitol building, U.S. flag, Washington Monument

FILE: Kiev, Ukraine – 2018 (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
7. Ukrainian parliament building

FILE: Kiev, Ukraine – May 18, 2017 (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
8. Cityscape

Oxford, UK – July 7, 2022 (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Pravda, Senior research fellow at Russian and East Euroean Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford:
“I don’t think the sanctions against Russia have actually altered Russian security policy in Ukraine. In some senses they have increased the case of the hard line in Moscow.”

FILE: Avdiivka, Donetsk – May 15, 2022 (CGTN – No access Chinese mainland)
10. Various of abandoned U.S. weapons

Severodonetsk, Luhansk – June 18, 2022 (CGTN – No access Chinese mainland)
11. Various of attacks, buildings of Azot chemical plant with smoke rising
12. Aerial shot of damaged building

Storyline

NATO expansion is a contributory factor to the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and Western sanctions against Russia failed to change its security policy, said a British expert on Thursday.

Alex Pravda, a senior research fellow of Russian and East European Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford said NATO used to see Russia as a potential partner in the 1990s. However, the situation had changed since 2000.

“As an academic analysis is that NATO expansion at the pace it started to take on in the early 2000 and especially after 2008 created conditions which made Russia’s intervention in its near border, Ukraine included, more likely. I take the line that NATO expansion was a contributory factor,” said Pravda.

Pravda predicated the Russia-Ukraine conflict may be stuck in a dilemma this autumn. Now the U.S. and NATO are exerting mounting pressure on Russia with rounds of sanctions, which, Pravda believes, will not change Russia’s policies.

“I don’t think the sanctions against Russia have actually altered Russian security policy in Ukraine. In some senses they have increased the case of the hard line in Moscow,” said Pravda.