The Russo-Ukrainian War [d] began in February 2014. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied and annexed Crimea from Ukraine and supported pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas War.These first eight years of conflict also included naval incidents and cyberwarfare.In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and began ...

Apr 26, 2022 · The salience that Putin and other Russian elites assign to the idea of Russian-Ukrainian-Belarusian unity helps explain the origins of the current conflict, notably why Moscow was willing to risk a large-scale war on its borders when …

Ukraine has endured unthinkable atrocities: mass civilian deaths, infrastructure destruction, torture, kidnapping of children, and relentless shelling of residential areas. But Ukraine persists.

Feb 14, 2023 · Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has set alight the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II. A former Soviet republic, Ukraine had deep cultural, economic, and...

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.As of 2025, Russian troops occupy about 20% of …

Feb 12, 2022 · As Russian forces begin an all-out assault on Ukraine after months of troop buildup and failed diplomatic efforts by the U.S. and its European allies to head off conflict, the situation for Kyiv...

Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia annexed Ukrainian Crimea and supported pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas war. The first eight years of conflict also included naval incidents, cyberwarfare, and heightened political tensions.

Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, escalating the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. What is motivating Putin’s moves now, and what background do we need to understand why? The resources on this page help explain.

Russia launched its war on Ukraine on 24 February 2022, but Russian cyber-attacks against Ukraine have persisted ever since Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, intensifying just before the 2022 invasion.

On 2 March 2022, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution reaffirming Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity by a broad majority. The war has left thousands of Ukrainian civilians dead and injured, and cities partially razed to the ground.