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From the end of February 2014, in the aftermath of the Euromaidan and the Revolution of Dignity, which resulted in the ousting of Russian-leaning Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, demonstrations by Russian-backed, pro-Russian, and anti-government groups took place in major cities across the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine.
- 23 February – 2 May 2014 (2 months, 1 week and 2 days)
Pro-Russian protesters remove a Ukrainian flag and replace it with a Russian flag in front of the Donetsk Oblast Regional State Administration building, 1 March 2014. This is a timeline of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest that has erupted in Ukraine, in the aftermath of the Ukrainian revolution and the Euromaidan movement.
Historical background of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine. A variety of social, economical, cultural, ethnic, and linguistic factors contributed to the sparking of unrest in eastern and southern Ukraine in 2014, and the subsequent eruption of the Russo-Ukrainian War, in the aftermath of the early 2014 Revolution of Dignity.
International sanctions have been imposed against Russia and Crimea during the Russo-Ukrainian War by a large number of countries, including the United States, Canada, the European Union, and international organisations following the Russian annexation of Crimea, which began in late February 2014.
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January
1. January 11 – Yuri Lutsenko, one of the leaders of the protests, is injured during clashes with the police. 1. January 19 – New violent clashes erupt in Ukraine as a reaction to new strict anti-protest laws. 2. January 20 – Violence spreads in Kyiv as protesters clash with police. 3. January 21 – Violent clashes occur for a second day between protesters and police in Kyiv. 4. January 22 – At least five people are shot dead and hundreds injured as demonstrators clash with police over new law...
February
1. February 1 – Activist Dmytro Bulatov reappears after allegedly being tortured by the government. 1. February 4 – At least 13 people die and five others are injured when a commuter train slams into a shuttle bus in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. 2. February 7 – A man attempts to hijack a Pegasus Airlines flight from Kharkiv, and demands to be flown to Sochi; the pilots turned off the inflight monitors and landed in Istanbul, Turkey, where the passenger was arrested. 3. February 15 – French pole vaul...
March
1. March 1 – Amid tensions in Ukraine's Crimea, the Federation Council of Russia authorizes President Vladimir Putinto use force. 2. March 11 – The Crimean parliament and the Sevastopol City Council issued a letter of intent to unilaterally declare independencefrom Ukraine. 3. March 16 – Official results of the Crimean status referendumshow a large majority (reported as 96.77% of the 81.36% of the population of Crimea who voted) voted in favour of independence of Crimea from Ukraine and joini...
January 22 – Serhiy NigoyanFebruary 18Jun 26, 2014 · Timeline: Ukraine’s pro-Russian unrest. All the major details of the build-up of pro-Russian separatist uprising around Eastern Ukraine. By Tamila Varshalomidze. 26 Jun 2014. Save...
Feb 17, 2022 · 5 of 14 |. A fruit seller at a street market in Donetsk, the territory controlled by pro-Russian militants, eastern Ukraine, Feb. 14, 2022. Amid fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, tensions have also soared in the country’s east, where Ukrainian forces are locked in a nearly eight-year conflict with Russia-backed separatists.
