CERES Associate Director Professor Robert Austin spoke to CTVNews.ca about why the West cares, and should continue to care, about Ukraine in light of Russia’s recognition of two breakaway republics in Eastern Ukraine as independent.

“We should understand that a group of people — an entire nation — is being declined the right to decide their future, and I think that that matters a lot, and that shouldn’t just matter to a Canadian, that should matter to anyone,” Austin said.

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