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Feb 23, 2022 · Russia’s war in Ukraine, explained. Putin’s invasion in February began Europe’s first major war in decades. by Jen Kirby and Jonathan Guyer. Mar 6, 2022, 7:20 AM PST. A woman flees with her ...
Feb 9, 2024 · Ukraine regained its independence in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Putin’s preferred notion — widely derided outside of Russia — is that Ukraine is not a legitimate country and ...
Mar 8, 2022 · Getty Images. Millions of Ukrainian families have had to flee their homes since the Russian invasion. On 24 February 2022, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his army to forcefully cross the ...
Feb 27, 2023 · A Ukrainian mortar team on the front lines in eastern Ukraine as the war approached its first anniversary. Tyler Hicks/The New York Times. By Eric Nagourney , Dan Bilefsky and Richard Pérez-Peña ...
Feb 24, 2022 · Russian President Vladimir Putin sees Ukraine as historically part of Russia. In 2014, Russia invaded Crimea, in the south of Ukraine, and continues to occupy it. Russian forces crossed Ukraine's ...
Rulers in Russia controlled the Soviet Union. The Soviets took over Ukraine’s farms. During the 1930s several million Ukrainians died from starvation. In 1991 the Soviet Union broke apart, and Ukraine became independent. However, some people in Russia thought Ukraine should still be part of Russia. Vladimir Putin was one of those people.
Mar 30, 2022 · In a televised speech announcing Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the invasion was designed to stop a “genocide ...
