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The Russo-Ukrainian War [d] began in February 2014. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied and annexed Crimea from Ukraine and supported pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas War.
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 ...
Artem Dzyuba – Ukrainian-born Russian soccer player, whose father is Ukrainian. Aleksei Miranchuk and Anton Miranchuk – twin Russian soccer players of Ukrainian origin from Kuban. Yaroslav Rakitskyi – footballer currently playing as a defender for Russian club FC Zenit Saint Petersburg; Vladislav Ternavsky – football coach and former player
Russian invasion of Ukraine Part of the Russo-Ukrainian War (outline) Map of Ukraine as of 21 December 2024 (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 4 days) Location Ukraine, western Russia, Black Sea Status Ongoing (list ...
The Kursk offensive surprised both Russia and Ukraine's allies. [43] It is the most significant attack across the border since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, [53] and the first carried out primarily by Ukrainian regular forces. Earlier smaller incursions into Russia by pro-Ukrainian forces had taken place with Ukraine supporting them but ...
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.
In the 2001 Ukrainian census, 8,334,100 identified themselves as ethnic Russians (17.3% of the population of Ukraine); this is the combined figure for persons originating from outside of Ukraine and the Ukrainian-born population declaring Russian ethnicity.
A senior Ukrainian officer later said that Russia may attempt to escalate the situation on the border and claim "NATO and Ukrainian aggression". He cited fake news being spread in pro-Russian Telegram channels about "Ukrainian and NATO plans" to "attack peaceful Russian and Belarusian territory". [375]