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      • Yes. After the uprising in 2014, Russian troops wearing unmarked uniforms invaded Crimea, a strategically important peninsula on the Black Sea. In a referendum condemned as illegal by most of the world, the region then voted by an overwhelming majority to join Russia.
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  1. Sep 3, 2014 · Russia, trying to salvage its lost influence in Ukraine, invaded and annexed Crimea the next month. In April, pro-Russia separatist rebels began seizing territory in eastern Ukraine.

  2. Russo-Ukrainian War – ongoing international conflict between Russia, alongside Russian-backed separatists, and Ukraine, which began in February 2014. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine and supported pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas war.

  3. Jan 27, 2022 · Key Points. Russia’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine had its roots in a long history between the two former Soviet states. But it was a destabilized government and street protests in Kyiv in...

  4. This paper provides a timeline of the major events in the Ukraine-Russia conflict between Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the eve of the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

  5. On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014. The invasion, the largest conflict in Europe since World War II, [13][14][15] has caused hundreds of thousands of military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties.

  6. Feb 24, 2022 · Russia has long resisted Ukraine's move towards the European Union. But geography is also key to how the invasion played out. Moscow, after all, mounted its attacks via air, land and sea.

  7. Feb 7, 2022 · In 2014 and onward, Russia leaked a phone call to embarrass US diplomats, spread fake news, and sowed disinformation, which culminated in unprecedented attacks on the 2016 election in the US.

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