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At the same time, Russian president Vladimir Putin discussed Ukrainian events with security chiefs, remarking that "we must start working on returning Crimea to Russia". On 27 February, Russian special forces without insignia [36] seized strategic sites across Crimea.
On 27 February 2014, unmarked Russian soldiers were deployed to the Crimean Peninsula in order to wrest control of it from Ukraine, starting the Russo-Ukrainian War. [1] This military occupation, which the Ukrainian government considers to have begun on 20 February, [2] [3] laid the foundation for the Russian annexation of Crimea on 18 March 2014.
A decade ago, President Vladimir Putin seized Crimea from Ukraine, a bold land grab that set the stage for Russia to invade its neighbor in 2022. The quick and bloodless seizure of the diamond ...
The 2022 annexation created a strategic land bridge between Crimea and Russia. The invasion began at dawn on 24 February. [90] [95] It was described as the biggest attack on a European country and the first full-scale war in Europe [96] since the Second World War. Russia launched a simultaneous ground and air attack.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin on Monday squarely blamed the United States for an attack on Crimea with U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles that killed at least four people and injured 151, and Moscow ...
Since then, Crimea has been promoted on Russian state media much as it was during the Soviet era, as a popular summer seaside destination — within Russia. Smoke rises after explosions Tuesday at ...
Transnistria – Transnistria's government asked the Russian government to make Transnistria become a part of Russia.Irina Kubanskikh, a spokeswoman for the Transnistrian parliament, said that the region's public bodies had "appealed to the Russian Federation leadership to examine the possibility of extending to Transnistria the legislation, currently under discussion in the State Duma, on ...
The Biden administration later revealed that the Russian government deployed Russian operatives, trained in urban warfare and explosives, [285] as saboteurs to stage a fabricated attack against Russian proxy separatists at eastern Ukraine, to provide Russia with another pretext for an invasion. [286] The Russian government denied the claims. [287]