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Sep 30, 2022 · Even before the war, Russia and its separatist allies controlled parts of Ukraine: In 2014, Moscow fully annexed the Crimean Peninsula, and pro-Russian separatists occupied chunks of...
Sep 21, 2022 · Russia had annexed Crimea in 2014. With the peninsula and the territory in the four other regions, Russia would gain an area about the same size as the US state of Pennsylvania.
In February and March 2014, Russia occupied and subsequently annexed Crimea from Ukraine by way of holding a referendum in which purportedly 96% of the local population voted in favour of the annexation, with Crimean Tatars boycotting it. The annexation was mostly internationally unrecognized and was condemned by the UN General Assembly.
Jun 9, 2023 · Military analysts have long anticipated that Ukraine will focus on this area to try to sever Russia’s connection between Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.
Sep 29, 2022 · Sept. 29, 2022. President Vladimir V. Putin declared on Friday that some 40,000 square miles of eastern and southern Ukraine would become part of Russia — an annexation broadly denounced by the...
Mar 13, 2024 · AFP and. RFE/RL. On March 16, 2014, an illegal referendum was held in Crimea as unmarked Russian soldiers, supported by some of the peninsula’s ethnic Russian population, seized public...
Map showing battle sites and key locations in the Crimean War (1853−56). The regional rivalry between the Russians and the Turks persisted, however, and in the Crimean War (1853–56) it expanded into a broader European conflict.
