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In February 2015, Russia and Ukraine signed the Minsk II agreements, but they were never fully implemented in the years that followed. The Donbas war settled into a violent but static conflict between Ukraine and the Russian and separatist forces, with many brief ceasefires but no lasting peace and few changes in territorial control.
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.
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.
Russia and Ukraine conducted a prisoner exchange mediated by the UAE that saw the release of 150 POWs held by each side. [187] Ukraine imposed sanctions on 57 ship captains involved in the illegal export of Russian oil to bypass price caps.
Ukraine imposed sanctions on 46 foreign individuals and entities for their role in supporting the Russian war effort in Ukraine. [ 305 ] The Ukrainian government banned civil servants, military personnel and workers in critical industries from installing Telegram on government-issued devices, citing cybersecurity risks coming from Russia.
In 2021, a spike in ceasefire violations in the east and a Russian troop concentration near Ukraine fuelled fears that a new war was about to erupt but tensions abated when Moscow pulled back the ...
According to Ukraine, Russia launched 14 drones and five missiles in the south of the country. 11 drones were shot down, injuring two people in Odesa. Residential and industrial buildings in the city were also damaged. [315] In Russia, an oil depot in Tuapse, Krasnodar Krai, caught fire. Locals reported multiple drones in the air before and ...
Russia and Ukraine conducted an exchange of war dead, with 99 Ukrainians being exchanged for 23 Russians. [98] The HUR said that Russia had transferred 2,000 personnel from its Pacific Fleet and 400 personnel from the Russian Air Force's 11th Air and Air Defence Forces Army, in addition to halting the deployment of soldiers to Syria on rotation ...