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This is a list of wars and armed conflicts involving Russia and its predecessors in chronological order, from the 9th to the 21st century.. The Russian military and troops of its predecessor states in Russia took part in a large number of wars and armed clashes in various parts of the world: starting from the princely squads, opposing the raids of nomads, and fighting for the expansion of the ...
At least 14 people died due to extreme weather conditions as a winter storm lashed parts of Russia and Ukraine, knocking out power from hundreds and thousands of households.
On 28 January 2022, Storm Malik was named by the Danish Meteorological Institute, [7] [8] after the Greenlandic name that also means "wave". [9] In Finland and Germany, which are not part of the storm naming groups, [5] it was named Valtteri by the Finnish Meteorological Institute, [10] [11] [12] while the Free University of Berlin named the same system as Nadia. [13]
18 May – Finland and Sweden both formally apply to join NATO. [11] 20 May – Russia announces that it will suspend its supply of natural gas to Finland beginning at 4:00 GMT tomorrow due to Finland's refusal to comply with Russia's demand that gas be paid for in rubles. [12] 25 May – Finland reports its first suspected case of monkeypox. [13]
Finland is now NATO alliance's 31st nation, a major blow to Russia with a historic realignment of Europe spurred by Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
The mention of red lines has been in everyday use since the beginning of the renewed Ukraine conflict to justify the war. In February of 2022, President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation stated that the United States and its Western partners had crossed a red line concerning Ukraine, which resulted in consequence of Russia having to undertake its "Special Military Operation" against ...
Approximate location of the Russian Kyiv convoy according to The Economist. One BM-21 Grad Russian military vehicle, similar to the type used in the Kyiv convoy. The Russian Kyiv convoy was a large column of Russian military vehicles stretching some 64 kilometres (40 mi) in Kyiv Oblast from Prybirsk [] to Hostomel via Ivankiv [1] involved in the Russian invasion of Ukraine beginning on 24 ...
Russia launched a new non-nuclear ballistic missile with medium range on Ukraine’s Dnipro region on Thursday, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said in a televised statement, marking another ...