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On 2 April 2014, Yanukovych gave an interview to Russian and foreign media: [12] Immediately after the signing of the agreement, I began to fulfill the obligations that the government assumed. As the President of Ukraine, I instructed the police to retreat from the Maidan without delay. The radical faction responded with shooting...
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a large-scale invasion against Ukraine.A draft resolution deploring the invasion and calling for the withdrawal of Russian troops was vetoed in the Security Council the following day, prompting the Security Council to convene an emergency special session on the subject of Ukraine with United Nations Security Council Resolution 2623. [2]
In October 2024, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy unveiled the Victory plan for Ukraine, [1] which includes the solution to the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and description of future national defense guarantees. [2] The official goal of the plan is "to change the circumstances in such a way that Russia will be forced to peace". [3]
Ukraine also has made a substantial contribution to UN peacekeeping operations. During the Ukrainian crisis between 2013 and 2014, the UN adopted Resolution 68/262 on March 27, 2014, entitled Territorial integrity of Ukraine, by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly in response to the Russian annexation of Crimea.
The Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) [d] [e] was a short-lived state in Eastern Europe.Prior to its proclamation, the Central Council of Ukraine was elected in March 1917 as a result of the February Revolution, and in June, it declared Ukrainian autonomy within Russia.
19 January – The US gives Ukraine $200 million in security aid. [2] 19 January – President Biden states in a press conference: "Russia will be held accountable if it invades. And it depends on what it does." [4] 24 January – NATO puts troops on standby. [2] 25 January – Russian exercises involving 6,000 troops and 60 jets take place in ...
After a defeat at Ilovaisk at the end of August 2014, Russia forced Ukraine to sign the first Minsk Protocol, or the Minsk I. [2] It was drafted by the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine , consisting of Ukraine, Russia , and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), [ 3 ] [ 4 ] with mediation by the leaders of France and ...
The Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine was marked on a 1991 USSR postage stamp. The Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Декларація про державний суверенітет України, romanized: Deklaratsiia pro derzhavnyi suvernitet Ukrainy [dekɫɐˈrat͡sʲijɐ prɔ derˈʒau̯nei̯ sʊʋerenʲiˈtɛt ʊkrɐˈjine]) was adopted on July 16 ...