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- Russia denies it is invading, but the evidence is overwhelming: on August 15, Ukraine said its military engaged Russian tanks crossing the border; on August 16, the leader of the Russian-backed rebels announced he had received 1,200 troops from Russia; on August 21, satellite imagery spotted Russian artillery crossing the border to fire at Ukrainian forces; on August 26, someone in Ukraine took a video of Russian tanks crashing through town, and so on.
www.vox.com/2014/9/3/18088560/ukraine-everything-you-need-to-know
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.
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.
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.
Russia’s annexation of Crimea, 2014. Toward the end of February 2014, unidentified military figures, later confirmed to be Russian personnel, surrounded the airports in Crimea, a majority-Russian peninsula in Ukraine. The Crimean autonomous assembly was then seized by pro-Russian forces.
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...
Mar 1, 2022 · (Reuters) - Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. Here is a timeline of Ukraine's fraught relationship with Moscow since it won independence in 1991 and the events...
The move comes a day after President Putin put Russia’s military on high alert. 1 March 2014: Russia’s parliament approves President Putin’s request for Russian forces to be used in Ukraine. 21 March 2014: President Putin signs a law formalising Russia's takeover of Crimea from Ukraine. 21 November 2013.
