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The visual explainer below focuses not on the full-scale escalation that began on 24 February, but on fighting in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine that began in 2014. This provides crucial background for understanding what is happening today. The armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine started in 2014. Between then and early 2022, it had already ...
In April 2019, the comedian Volodymyr Zelensky is elected president in a massive rebuke of the far-right 2014 coup. While he appeals to anti-war sentiments in the population, Zelensky maneuvers ...
Nov 13, 2014 · Ukraine crisis: Timeline. 13 November 2014. AFP. Pro-Russian gunmen in Donetsk, 13 November. For months, pro-Russian separatists have fought Ukrainian forces in two eastern regions of Ukraine but ...
Sep 25, 2019 · The story begins in spring 2014, when Hunter Biden, then–Vice President Joe Biden’s son, took a seat on the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural-gas company, not long after the fall ...
Jan 27, 2022 · Key Points. Russia’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine had its roots in a long history between the two former Soviet states. But it was a destabilized government and street protests in Kyiv in ...
Feb 24, 2022 · In 2014, after Ukraine’s pro-Russian president was ousted in giant street protests, Mr. Putin moved to annex Crimea. He also supported separatist forces that control parts of the eastern regions ...
Apr 25, 2022 · His administration gave more than $1.3 billion in assistance to Ukraine between 2014 and 2016, but Mr. Obama said no when his national security team, including Mr. Biden and Mr. Kerry, recommended ...
