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Russian Federation: Ukraine: Russian victory: A referendum was held on Crimea becoming part of the Russian Federation: 2014-2022: War in Donbass: Donetsk People's Republic Lugansk People's Republic Russian Federation: Ukraine: Inconclusive: Creation of independent pro-Russian republics in Donbas, but uprising suppressed in Kharkiv and Odesa
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 Ukrainian Crimea and supported pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas war.
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which had started in 2014.The invasion, the largest and deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II, [15] [16] [17] has caused hundreds of thousands of military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties.
Ukraine has accused Moscow of forcibly taking hundreds of thousands of civilians to Russia so they could be used as “hostages” to pressure a surrender. Russia-Ukraine war: Key things to know ...
Russian forces are pounding Ukrainian cities and edging closer to the capital, Kyiv, in a relentless bombardment that keeps deepening the humanitarian crisis in this war, now in its third week.
Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result 2014–present Russo-Ukrainian War: Russian annexation of Crimea; War in Donbas ; Russian invasion of Ukraine Ukraine Russia In Donbas: Donetsk People's Republic Luhansk People's Republic; North Korea [41] [42] [43] Supported by: Belarus; Ongoing. Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
Kyiv functioned as the capital of Kievan Rus', which was ruled by the Varangian Rurikid dynasty which gradually became Slavicized.. Both Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus claim their heritage from Kievan Rus' (Kyivan Rus'), a polity that united most of the East Slavic and some Finnic tribes and adopted Byzantine Orthodoxy in the ninth to eleventh centuries.
Russia’s military said 20 civilians were killed by a Ukrainian ballistic missile strike on Monday in the eastern city of Donetsk, in the separatist Donetsk region. Russia-Ukraine war: Key things ...