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Nov 21, 2014 · Clashes took place with riot police on 1 December 2013 as 100,000 Ukrainians thronged the centre of Kiev. In fact, the war we have now with Russia has pushed aside the Maidan Revolution, which ...
February 25 – The Parliament of Ukraine removes the five-pointed red star from its spire in a measure aimed at erasing the nation's Soviet legacy. February 26 – 2014 Ukrainian revolution. Ukraine's interim President Oleksandr Turchynov formally becomes the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Ukraine - Maidan, Protest, Revolution: Ukraine’s pro-European trajectory was abruptly halted in November 2013, when a planned association agreement with the EU was scuttled just days before it was scheduled to be signed. The accord would have more closely integrated political and economic ties between the EU and Ukraine, but Yanukovych bowed to intense pressure from Moscow. Street protests ...
Feb 24, 2023 · Feb. 24, 2023. Russian forces began their full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. Since then, Western officials estimate that hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, millions of ...
Mar 15, 2022 · Ukraine 2014. Expert opinion. It is eight years since one of the bloodiest days in what can now be seen as Ukraine’s first ‘Putin war’. As Ukraine reels from Putin’s War 2.0, it is worth remembering that, in November 2013, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Kyiv, Ukraine’s thousand-year old capital city, to protest ...
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 ...
Feb 25, 2014 · 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 ...
