Ukraine War

Extracted Attributes

• Scale

  Largest European conflict since World War II

• Location

  Ukraine, Russia (border regions), Crimea, Donbas region

• Consequences

  Refugee crisis, hundreds of thousands of deaths, international sanctions against Russia, humanitarian and military aid to Ukraine, ICC investigation into war crimes

• Current Status

  Ongoing

• Type of Conflict

  Russo-Ukrainian War, full-scale invasion, international armed conflict

• International Condemnation

  Widespread

• Start Date (Initial Conflict)

  2014-02

• Start Date (Full-Scale Invasion)

  2022-02-24

• Russian Justification for Invasion

  Demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, protect people in Russian-controlled breakaway republics, end alleged genocide of Russians in Donbas

• Territory Occupied by Russia (as of 2025)

  About 20% of Ukraine

Timeline

• The Russo-Ukrainian War begins; Russia occupies and annexes Crimea following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity. (Source: Wikipedia, Summary)

  2014-02

• Russian-backed militants seize towns in eastern Donbas and proclaim Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR). (Source: Wikipedia)

  2014-04

• Russia and Ukraine sign the Minsk II agreements. (Source: Wikipedia, Summary)

  2015-02

• Ukraine declares the Donbas region to be occupied by Russia. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2018

• Massive Russian military buildup near Ukraine's borders, including Belarus. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2021

• Russia recognizes DPR and LPR as independent states; Russian proxies step up attacks on Ukrainian forces in Donbas. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2022-02

• Russia launches a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, termed a "special military operation" by Putin. (Source: Wikipedia, Summary)

  2022-02-24

• Russia abandons its attempt to take Kyiv. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2022-04

• Ukrainian forces begin liberating territories in the north-east and south. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2022-08

• Russia declares the annexation of four partially occupied Ukrainian provinces. (Source: Wikipedia, Summary)

  2022-09

• Ukrainian and Ukrainian-backed forces conduct a cross-border offensive into Russia's Kursk region. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2024-08

• International Criminal Court opens an investigation into war crimes and issues arrest warrants for Russian officials, including Vladimir Putin. (Source: Wikipedia, Summary)

  Ongoing

Russo-Ukrainian War

The Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied and annexed Crimea from Ukraine. It then supported Russian paramilitaries who began a war in the eastern Donbas region against Ukraine's military. In 2018, Ukraine declared the region to be occupied by Russia. These first eight years of conflict also included naval incidents and cyberwarfare. In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and began occupying more of the country, starting the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II. The war has resulted in a refugee crisis and hundreds of thousands of deaths. In early 2014, the Euromaidan protests led to the Revolution of Dignity and the ousting of Ukraine's pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych. Shortly after, pro-Russian protests began in parts of southeastern Ukraine, while unmarked Russian troops occupied Crimea. Russia soon annexed Crimea after a highly disputed referendum. In April 2014, Russian-backed militants seized towns and cities in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region and proclaimed the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) as independent states, starting the Donbas war. Russia covertly supported the separatists with its own troops, tanks and artillery, preventing Ukraine from fully retaking the territory. The International Criminal Court (ICC) judged that the war was both a national and international armed conflict involving Russia, and the European Court of Human Rights judged that Russia controlled the DPR and LPR from 2014 onward. In February 2015, Russia and Ukraine signed the Minsk II agreements, but they were never fully implemented in the following years. The Donbas war became a static conflict likened to trench warfare; ceasefires were repeatedly broken but the frontlines did not move. Beginning in 2021, there was a massive Russian military buildup near Ukraine's borders, including within neighbouring Belarus. Russian officials repeatedly denied plans to attack Ukraine. Russia's president Vladimir Putin voiced expansionist views and challenged Ukraine's right to exist. He demanded that Ukraine be barred from ever joining the NATO military alliance. In early 2022, Russia recognized the DPR and LPR as independent states. While Russian troops surrounded Ukraine, its proxies stepped up attacks on Ukrainian forces in the Donbas. On 24 February 2022, Putin announced a "special military operation" to "demilitarize and denazify" Ukraine, claiming Russia had no plans to occupy the country. The Russian invasion that followed was internationally condemned; many countries imposed sanctions against Russia, and sent humanitarian and military aid to Ukraine. In the face of fierce resistance, Russia abandoned an attempt to take Kyiv in early April. In August, Ukrainian forces began liberating territories in the north-east and south. In September, Russia declared the annexation of four partially occupied provinces, which was internationally condemned. Since then, Russian offensives and Ukrainian counteroffensives have gained only small amounts of territory. The invasion has also led to attacks in Russia by Ukrainian and Ukrainian-backed forces, among them a cross-border offensive into Russia's Kursk region in August 2024. Russia has repeatedly carried out deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on civilians far from the frontline. The ICC opened an investigation into war crimes and issued arrest warrants for Putin and several other Russian officials.

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• Russo-Ukrainian War - Wikipedia

  The Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied and annexed Crimea from Ukraine. It then supported Russian paramilitaries who began a war in the eastern Donbas region against Ukraine's military. In 2018, Ukraine declared the region to be occupied by Russia.( These first eight years of conflict also included naval incidents and cyberwarfare. In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and began [...] On 24 February 2022, Putin announced a "special military operation" to "demilitarize and denazify" Ukraine, claiming Russia had no plans to occupy the country. The Russian invasion that followed was internationally condemned; many countries imposed sanctions against Russia, and sent humanitarian and military aid to Ukraine. In the face of fierce resistance, Russia abandoned an attempt to take Kyiv in early April. In August, Ukrainian forces began liberating territories in the north-east and [...] In early 2014, the Euromaidan protests led to the Revolution of Dignity and the ousting of Ukraine's pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych. Shortly after, pro-Russian protests began in parts of southeastern Ukraine, while unmarked "Little green men (Russo-Ukrainian War)") Russian troops occupied Crimea. Russia soon annexed Crimea after a highly disputed referendum. In April 2014, Russian-backed militants seized towns and cities in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region and proclaimed the Donetsk

• War in Ukraine | Global Conflict Tracker - Council on Foreign Relations

  Background Armed conflict in eastern Ukraine erupted in early 2014 following Russia’s annexation of Crimea. The previous year, protests in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, against Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s rejection of a deal for greater economic integration with the European Union (EU) were met with a violent crackdown by state security forces. Subsequently, the protests escalated, and President Yanukovychfled the country in February 2014. [...] In September 2022, Ukrainian forces made strong advances in thenortheast and mounted a revitalizedsouthern counteroffensive. Ukraine retook significant territory in theKharkiv region, surprising Russian forces andcutting off important supply lines at Lyman before stalling and settling into a new front line. In southern Ukraine, Ukrainian forcesretook the city of Kherson and forced a Russian withdrawal from all territory west of the Dnipro River. [...] On February 24, 2022, during a last-ditch UN Security Councileffort to dissuade Russia from invading Ukraine, Putinannounced the beginning of a full-scale land, sea, and air invasion, targeting Ukrainian military assets and cities across the country. Putin claimed that the goals of the operation were to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine and end the alleged genocide of Russians in Ukrainian territory. U.S. President Joe Biden called the attack “unprovoked and unjustified” and issued severe

• Russian invasion of Ukraine - Wikipedia

  On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the conflict between the two countries which began in 2014.( The fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties. As of 2025, Russian troops occupy about 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million [...] the war was a national and international armed conflict involving Russia,( and the European Court of Human Rights judged that Russia controlled the DPR and LPR from 2014 onward.( Ukraine's parliament declared the Donbas region to be occupied by Russia.( [...] Before 5 a.m. Kyiv time on 24 February, Putin, in another speech, announced a "special military operation", which effectively declared war on Ukraine.( Putin said the operation was to "protect the people" of the Russian-controlled breakaway republics. He baselessly claimed that Russians in the Donbas had "been facing humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the Kyiv regime" for 8 years.( Putin said Russia was being threatened: he baselessly claimed that Ukrainian officials were neo-Nazis under

• Conflict in Ukraine: A timeline (current conflict, 2022 - present)

  Download full report Download ‘Conflict in Ukraine: A timeline (current conflict, 2022 - present)’ report (1 MB , PDF) The current conflict in Ukraine began on 24 February 2022 when Russian military forces entered the country from Belarus, Russia and Crimea. Prior to the invasion, there had already been eight years of conflict in eastern Ukraine between Ukrainian Government forces and Russia-backed separatists.

• Ukraine War | Latest News & Updates - BBC

  Image 17: A man in military uniform holds the bottom of an anti-aircraft gun pointed towards the sky 'It's Groundhog Day': Ukraine's sky defenders stuck in relentless battle ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Under fire of 100 drones a night, there's little talk of a ceasefire in the front-line city of Sumy. [...] 10 hrs ago Image 21Image 22: A graphic showing a North Korean worker in a hard hat and reflective vest with his head in his hands North Koreans tell BBC they are being sent to work 'like slaves' in Russia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- More than 50,000 North Koreans will be sent to work in Russia, as Moscow's war in Ukraine drains labour pools. 10 hrs ago [...] 18 hrs ago Image 24: Two firefighters in full gear stand on burning rubble while holding a rolled up hosepipe, about to release water to battle the flames. Zelensky could still attend Trump-Putin meeting, but rest of Europe is shut out ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As things stand, there are no invites for the country being invaded, nor the continent it sits in, writes James Waterhouse. 18 hrs ago