"The collection presents three philosophical essays, written with a certain chronological interval (2001, 2005 and 2015) in which the author tries to understand and explain the economic, geopolitical, historical, cultural, regional and sociopsychological reasons that enabled Russian aggression and occupation of the Donets region and Lugansk region. The views expressed by the author at the 4th International Congress of Ukrainianists (Donetsk, June 28 - July 1, 2005) are very contemporary and are supported by the material written already in 2015 during the humanitarian catastrophe in the Donbass"