Let history be our guide. Ukraine was part of the Russin Empire during Catherine the Great and Eastern Ukraine was known as Little Russia since the 1800's. With 31 trillion of US debt, an exploding Southern Border, and systemic corruption in Ukraine, is this Civil War with WW3? Correction: Boris Johson was the PM of UK who tanked peace negotiations with Russia. While Boros Yeltzen was the President of the USSR who gave away Ukraine in 1991.