Is Russia’s military move into separatist-held eastern Ukraine an invasion?

Why Western leaders and experts are divided on whether Russia has ‘invaded’ Ukraine

Experts also seem divided over the definition of the recent Russian military deployment.“I would not characterise Putin's action as an ‘invasion.’ It is very similar to Adolf Hitler's annexation of Austria in March 1938 , which was a peaceful occupation of a country largely sympathetic to the Nazis,” says Edward Erickson, a former US army officer and a retired professor of Military History from the Department of War Studies at the Marine Corps University.

Enver Arikoglu, an associate professor of international law at Istanbul University, believes it is an invasion, on legal grounds, but explains the reluctance to call it that.

But it does not mean that some groups inside a state can not start a rebellion against the state’s political authority. In that case, outside powers still should not back such a rebellion against that state, says the professor. Head of the pro-Russian self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin attends a news conference in Donetsk, Ukraine.

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