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In February 2015, Russia and Ukraine signed the Minsk II agreements, but they were never fully implemented in the years that followed. The Donbas war settled into a violent but static conflict between Ukraine and the Russian and separatist forces, with many brief ceasefires but no lasting peace and few changes in territorial control.
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.
Russian forces claimed to have taken Kurakhove. [26] [27] Russian sources claimed that Ukrainian forces took the village of Russkoye Porechnoye in Kursk Oblast. [28] Ukraine claimed to have destroyed or damaged two Russian anti-missile Pantsir-S1 systems and one OSA anti-aircraft vehicle using sea-launched aerial drones in occupied Kherson ...
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. The first eight years of ...
Russian invasion of Ukraine Part of the Russo-Ukrainian War (outline) Map of Ukraine as of 6 January 2025 (details): Continuously controlled by Ukraine Currently occupied or controlled by Russia Formerly occupied by Russia or Ukrainian-occupied Russian territory Date 24 February 2022 – present (2 years, 10 months and 2 weeks) Location Ukraine, western Russia, Black Sea Status Ongoing (list ...
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
Ukrainian drones struck an oil depot in Svetlograd, Stavropol Krai, some 600 kilometers from the Russia-Ukraine border. Russian officials claimed to have shot down 32 drones over Crimea and Kursk, Bryansk, Voronezh, Oryol, and Belgorod Oblasts. [518] [519] The US announced a $425 million military aid package to Ukraine. [520] Russian forces ...
Ukraine [a] is a country in Eastern Europe.It is the second-largest European country [b] after Russia, which borders it to the east and northeast. [c] [10] It also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova [d] to the southwest; with a coastline along the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast.