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A Ukrainian police officer with two women in Kyiv on 16 March 2022. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, that began on 24 February 2022, has had a significant impact on women across Ukraine and Russia, both as combatants and as civilians. In Ukraine, the invasion has seen a significant increase in women serving in the military as well as a ...
Ukraine applied for NATO membership in September 2022 after Russia proclaimed it had annexed the country's southeast. [15] [16] [17] European NATO member countries in 2024 (blue), countries in the process of joining NATO (light blue), countries seeking membership (purple), and the Russia-led CSTO (red)
In a representative national poll on 3–4 March 2022, 59% of Ukrainian women said they were 'ready to personally participate in the armed resistance to end the Russian occupation of Ukraine.' [38] Though Ukraine's Ministry of Defence significantly expanded the pool of Ukrainian women who are required to register for military conscription into ...
31 March – Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses the country of "provoking armed confrontation" with pro-Russian separatists in the war-torn eastern portion of the country. Putin also said that Ukraine failed to comply with the July 2020 ceasefire of the conflict, which has killed over 14,000 people since it broke out in 2014. [15]
If Ukraine was a NATO member, on the other hand, the treaty’s collective defense clause, known as Article 5, would require other members to fight on Ukraine’s behalf.
A Ukrainian soldier, injured on 27 December 2021, died of wounds at a military hospital in Kharkiv. [2] 8 January: The Ukrainian Joint Forces press center reported six pro-Russian violations of the ceasefire, one of them an unauthorized drone flight over Ukrainian positions. One Ukrainian soldier was wounded in action.
Conflict specialist non-profit ACLED (Armed Conflict Location and Event Data) estimates there have been around 153,000 Ukrainian and Russian casualties since the war began on 24 February 2022 ...
The 32-members of NATO on Wednesday formally declared Ukraine on an “irreversible” path to membership in the Western military alliance, offering a bare but more binding assurance of protection ...