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      • Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014, after a widely disputed referendum. The war in Donbas began in April 2014 when armed Russian-backed separatists seized Ukrainian government buildings and proclaimed the independent Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic. Russian troops were directly involved in these conflicts.
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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. The...

  2. 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...

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Mar 15, 2022 · By mid-March 2014, Moscow forced through a de facto annexation of Ukraine’s southernmost region. Within three weeks, Russian armed groups had seized parts of the Donbas – Ukraine’s easternmost provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk on the Russian border.

  6. 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.

  7. Feb 12, 2023 · A new book examining Russias 2014 invasion of eastern Ukraine reveals some uncomfortable truths. By Amy Mackinnon, a national security and intelligence reporter at Foreign Policy.

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