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ISSN(online):2547-8702 E A S T E R N M E D I T E R R A N E A N P O L I C Y N O T E March 2022,No.72 UKRAINES GEOPOLITICAL IDENTITY AS A DIACHRONIC FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENT IN THE RUSSO-UKRAINIAN RELATIONS AND THE HERITAGE OF THE NEW COLD WAR*Ioannis P.Sotiropoulos “Cheerly to sea;the signs of war advance:No king of England,if not king of France.”Ending words of Scene II,“Southampton.A council-chamber”“Henry V”,William Shakespeare Introduction The current Russo-Ukrainian crisis brought unprecedented,historic,nodal milestones for the international community,in international relations and global geopolitics,which significantly influence the course of the 21st century political history,by irrevocably altering the international equilibrium and becoming the landmark of a new era in international relations and global politics.Indeed,the recent cataclysmic developments in Ukraine,generated a new geopolitical framework,both in the active supra-system as well as in the regional sub-systems.However,all these have surfaced not due to dysfunctional,or subjective factors in the Russo-Ukrainian relations.The Russo-Ukrainian crisis that triggered the current NATO-Russian crisis can be heavily consider