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Before 2022, Russia occupied 42,000 km 2 (16,000 sq mi) of Ukrainian territory (Crimea, and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk), and occupied an additional 119,000 km 2 (46,000 sq mi) after its full-scale invasion by March 2022, a total of 161,000 km 2 (62,000 sq mi) or almost 27% of Ukraine's territory. [ 9 ] By 11 November 2022, the Institute for ...
As such, these lands are commonly described as Russian-occupied territories, regardless of what their status is in Russian law. The term is applied to Georgia (in Abkhazia and South Ossetia), Moldova (in Transnistria), and Ukraine (in Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia). Additionally, Russia and Japan have been involved in the ...
The Georgian parliament unanimously passed a resolution on 28 August 2008 formally declaring Abkhazia and South Ossetia Russian-occupied territories, and calling Russian troops occupying forces. [2] Russia established diplomatic relations with both Abkhazia and South Ossetia. [3] Russian troops were placed in both Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
The Russian Empire had acquired much of the territory inhabited by Ukrainians between the mid 17th and early 19th centuries, which was organized into nine Ukrainian governorates: Chernigov (Chernihiv in Ukrainian), Yekaterinoslav (Katerynoslav), Kiev (Kyiv), Kharkov (Kharkiv), Kherson, Podolia (Podillia), Poltava, Volhynia (Volyn), and the mainland part of Taurida (or Tavriia, without the ...
Russia [193] 3 Aug 2024: Pressured by Russia between around 14 May – 11 June 2024. [136] Contested by Russia between around 12 June – 19 July 2024. [162] [179] Claimed captured by Russian sources around 28 June 2024. [194] Captured by Russia between around 19 July – 3 August 2024. [193] [195] Sakko i Vantsetti: 3 Bakhmut Russia: 6 Feb 2023
English: Map showing Russia in dark red with Russian-occupied territories in Europe in light red, as follows: In Moldova: Transnistria (1), since the Russian military presence in Transnistria began in 1992; In Georgia: Abkhazia (2) and South Ossetia (3), since the Russo-Georgian War in 2008
Federal subjects of Russia prior to the additions of six occupied Ukrainian regions in 2014 and 2022. Since 30 September 2022, the Russian Federation has consisted of eighty-nine federal subjects that are constituent members of the Federation. [2] However, six of these federal subjects—the Republic of Crimea, the Donetsk People's Republic ...
Exclusive economic zone. 7,566,673 km 2 (2,921,509 sq mi) Russia (Russian: Россия) is the largest country in the world, covering over 17,125,191 km 2 (6,612,073 sq mi), and encompassing more than one-eighth of Earth's inhabited land area. Russia extends across eleven time zones, and has the most borders of any country in the world, with ...