Russia's Overlooked Invasion The Causes of the 2014 Outbreak of War in Ukraine’s Donbas. With a Foreword by Hiroaki Kuromiya

"Jakob Hauter’s book about Russia’s overlooked aggression against Ukraine is based mainly on his doctoral research project, which was completed before 24 February 2022. His findings have become even more noteworthy after the full-scale invasion, underlining that he and a handful of other scholars were right about the so-called ‘Donbas war’. Between 2014 and 2021, the military conflict in eastern Ukraine was predominantly considered (and still is, by many) as a Ukrainian civil war with only some degree of Russian involvement. The book persuasively shows that this assessment is wrong, and that Russia was a driving force behind the conflict." —Prof. Yuriy Savelyev, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 77:2, 2025.