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Russia currently occupies a little under 20 per cent of Ukraine, including parts of four regions of mainland Ukraine, as well as the Crimean peninsula. Mr Putin first invaded Ukraine in 2014, when ...
Russia launched an overnight drone attack on Ukraine, injuring eight people and damaging residential buildings and businesses in several cities. Ukraine’s air force claims to have shot down 65 ...
On 10 August 2016, Russia accused the Special Forces of Ukraine of conducting a raid near the Crimean town of Armiansk which killed two Russian servicemen. The government of Ukraine dismissed the report as a provocation. [8] Ten people were forcibly disappeared between 2014 and 2016 and were still missing as of 2017. [9]
Northern war in Ukraine. Orlyk' march on Ukraine; Collapse of Zaporozhye Administration Battle of Poltava; Cossack Hetmanate Swedish Empire: Russian Tsardom: Russian victory: Cossack hetmanate lost its autonomy, legal and international properties, and therefore ceased to exist as a state 1734: Haidamak uprising of 1734: Haidamaks: Russian Tsardom
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted neighbouring Poland to modernise its army, and boost weapons purchases, and it has allocated 4.7 per cent of GDP to defence expenditure this year ...
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.
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. The first eight years of ...
Russia currently controls 18% of Ukraine including all of Crimea, just over 80% of Donbas, which comprises of Luhansk and Donetsk, and more than 70% of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, as ...