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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock in Kyiv on 17 January 2022. In an interview with the French newspaper Libération in April 2021, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that provocations by Russia with the relocation of troops to the border with Ukraine and the aggravation of the situation in the east are the most serious since ...
According to Russia, Ukraine deployed 125,000 troops to the Donbas conflict zone in December 2021. [355] The United States estimated in December 2021 that Russia could assemble over 175,000 troops to invade Ukraine. [356] Oleksii Reznikov, Ukrainian Minister of Defence, stated that "we have 250,000 official [...] members of our army.
11 November – The United States reports an unusual movement of Russian troops near the borders of Ukraine. [2] By 28 November 2021, Ukraine has a reported build-up of 92,000 Russian troops. [citation needed] 7 December – US President Joe Biden warns President of Russia Vladimir Putin of "strong economic and other measures" if Russia attacks ...
Russian invasion of Ukraine Part of the Russo-Ukrainian War (outline) Map of Ukraine as of 6 January 2025 (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 2 weeks) Location Ukraine, western Russia, Black Sea Status Ongoing (list ...
In 1991, Germany opposed Ukrainian independence and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, according to archived German Foreign Ministry files released in 2022. [7] In November 1991, facing the imminent dissolution of the Soviet Union, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl offered Russia to "exert influence on the Ukrainian leadership" for it to join a proposed confederation with Russia. [7]
9 April – Russia deploys more troops to the Russia–Ukraine border as tensions escalate between the U.S., Russia, and Ukraine. [ 20 ] 11 April – A Ukrainian soldier is killed and another is seriously wounded by Russian separatist forces artillery fire on the front line in Eastern Ukraine , bringing the total number of troops killed in ...
The German minority population in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union stemmed from several sources and arrived in several waves. Since the second half of the 19th century, as a consequence of the Russification policies and compulsory military service in the Russian Empire, large groups of Germans from Russia emigrated to the Americas (mainly Canada, the United States, Brazil and Argentina ...
Russia and Ukraine could not agree on the issues of the withdrawal of Russian-backed troops and the elections in the separatist-held regions. [193] According to Ukrainian authorities, 50 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in 2020. [194] Between 2019 and 2021, Russia issued over 650,000 internal Russian passports to Ukrainians.