Tennessee World Affairs Council What in the World? Weekly Quiz – February 21-27, 2022

On Friday President Biden said he believed President Putin had decided to invade Ukraine and would attack its capital, THIS city of 2.8 million people.

Odessa

Yalta

Lviv

Kyiv

Leaders in THIS eastern region of Ukraine, consisting of unrecognized separatist states Donetsk and Luhansk, called for full military mobilization and ordered evacuation of women and children to nearby Russian territory in advance of conflict.

Donbas

Crimea

Kharkiv

Lviv

Vice President Harris, Defense Secretary Austin and Secretary of State Blinken met with global leaders at THIS annual international security meeting. Ukrainian President Zelensky also attended.

London Global Strategy Summit

Davos

Association of OSCE Leaders

Munich Security Conference

Russian troops are massed on three sides of Ukraine including forces on its western border in THIS former Soviet Republic.

Moldova

Donetsk

Romania

Chechnya

Russia has sent over 30,000 troops, warplanes, ballistic missiles and special forces to THIS neighboring country that lies on Ukraine’s northern border. Its territory is closest to routes into Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.

Poland

Belarus

Estonia

Moldova

Moscow ordered strategic nuclear weapon exercises to increase crisis pressure on Ukraine and the West. Russia’s and the United States’ nuclear forces are constrained by the “Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms” agreement, known as THIS, which was extended for five years in February 2021.

SALT

New START

INF

BMD Treaty

The United States has accused Russia of preparing provocative measures in Ukraine to justify an invasion. Such activities are commonly known as THIS.

Fifth column measures

False flag operations

Special forces operations

Social Provocateurs

Mass protests in Ukraine known as THIS color revolution in 2004 overturned a rigged presidential election and resulted in installation of Viktor Yushchenko as President.

Orange

Red

Blue

White

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine’s “independence, sovereignty and the existing borders” were to be respected by Russia, the U.S. And the UK in accord with the “Budapest Memorandum” in exchange for Ukraine doing THIS.

Give up its ICBMs, nuclear warheads and infrastructure

Assure Russia continued access to the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol

Forswear future affiliation with the European Union

Allow dual-citizenship for Russian speaking minorities in Eastern Ukraine

The President of Belarus has said he will accept Russian nuclear weapons on his territory to “defend our country.” THIS leader was to accompany Russian President Putin in observing strategic nuclear drills over the weekend.

Xavier Espot

Alexander Lukashenko

Roman Golovchenko

Kiril Petkov

Tennessee World Affairs Council What in the World? Weekly Quiz – February 21-27, 2022

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