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On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.The invasion, the largest conflict in Europe since World War II, [13] [14] [15] 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 Crimea from Ukraine and supported pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas war.
The same day, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko referred to the operation as Ukraine's "Patriotic War of 2014" and a war against external aggression. [126] [127] On 25 August, a column of Russian military vehicles was reported to have crossed into Ukraine near Novoazovsk on the Azov sea coast.
2024 spring and summer campaigns. (1 April 2024 – 31 July 2024) 2024 summer offensives. (1 August 2024 – present) This timeline of the prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine covers a period of heightened tensions between Russia and Ukraine from early 2021 until the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
Russia Ukrainian military base Berdiansk port attack: 24 March 2022: Ukraine Russian naval ship Sinking of the Moskva: 13 April 2022: Ukraine Russian Slava-class cruiser Moskva: Desna barracks airstrike: 17 May 2022: Russia Ukrainian military barracks Attack on Nova Kakhovka: 11 July 2022: Ukraine Russian military forces & an ammunition depot ...
Despite the Russian military build-ups, Russian officials from November 2021 to 20 February 2022 repeatedly denied that Russia had plans to invade Ukraine. [43] [44] The crisis was related to the War in Donbas, itself part of the Russo-Ukrainian War, ongoing since February 2014.
June. On 14 June 2014, protesters in Kyiv attacked the Russian embassy and overturned vehicles with diplomatic plates. [ 262] Ukraine's foreign minister, Andriy Deshchytsia, showed up at the protest and tried to calm down the protesters and convince them that attacking the embassy was a wrong course of action.
The war in Donbas, [c] also known as the Donbas war, was a phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War in the Donbas region of Ukraine. The war began in April 2014, when a commando unit headed by Russian citizen Igor Girkin seized Sloviansk in Donetsk oblast. [20] [21] [6] [22] The Ukrainian military launched an operation against them.