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Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia annexed Ukrainian Crimea and supported pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas war. The first eight years of conflict also included naval incidents, cyberwarfare, and heightened political tensions. In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian authorities and armed forces have committed multiple war crimes in the form of deliberate attacks against civilian targets, [277] [278] massacres of civilians, torture and rape of women and children, [279] [280] and many indiscriminate attacks [281] [282] in densely ...
The direct cost of the war for Russia through the first three years was over $250 billion via the defence budget, [23] plus more than US$200 billion via an off-budget financing mechanism of preferential bank loans made to defence contractors and war-related businesses. [24] [25] The invasion was met with widespread international condemnation.
Ukraine's Defense Ministry claimed that May 2024 was the deadliest month for Russia so far in the war, with Russian troop losses allegedly amounting to 38,940 killed, wounded, missing, or captured. They also claimed a record number of 1,160 Russian artillery systems destroyed.
In Donetsk, Ukrainian drones destroyed a S-350 missile system, believed to be the third of the war so far destroyed. Only six are known to be in service. [256] Russia and the United States began official discussions in Saudi Arabia on ending the war in Ukraine. [257]
Ukraine – a year of war: ... total of 149,300 residential buildings had been damaged or destroyed in the first 10 months of the war. ... number of tanks Russia has lost in the year-long conflict .
11 November – The United States reports an unusual movement of Russian troops near the borders of Ukraine. [2] By 20 November 2021, Ukraine had reported a build-up of 92,000 Russian troops. [3] 7 December – US President Joe Biden warns President of Russia Vladimir Putin of "strong economic and other measures" if Russia attacks Ukraine. [2]
In 2021, a spike in ceasefire violations in the east and a Russian troop concentration near Ukraine fuelled fears that a new war was about to erupt but tensions abated when Moscow pulled back the ...