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Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)

Largest war in Europe since World War II.

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The Russo-Ukrainian war began on 24 February 2022, escalating the conflict that started with Russia's 2014 attacks on Ukraine.[1] About 8 million Ukrainians have been internally displaced and 6–7 million have fled the country.[1]

Quick Facts

Type
International armed conflict
Location
Ukraine (and Kursk Oblast, Russia)
Belligerents
Russia (with North Korean soldiers) vs. Ukraine
Casualties
Hundreds of thousands of military; tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians
Displaced
8 million internally displaced; 6–7 million fled Ukraine
Territory occupied
Roughly 20% of Ukraine

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994 in return for security guarantees from Russia, the US, and the UK.[2] This sparked the Euromaidan protests, which led to Yanukovych fleeing to Russia and Petro Poroshenko becoming president.[3] In February 2014, Russian soldiers without insignia occupied Crimea, and Russia annexed it after an illegitimate referendum.[4] In 2021, Russia built up troops near Ukraine's borders, denying plans to invade.[5][6]

In 2013, Ukraine's parliament voted to finalize an EU association agreement, but President Yanukovych, under pressure from the Putin regime, abandoned the deal.[7][8] On 24 February 2022, Putin declared a "special military operation," and the invasion commenced moments later.[9][10]

What the cited sources add

A CSIS analysis noted that Russia's massing of troops in April 2021 raised fears of another round of aggression.[11] The CSIS analysis described Russian military exercises in 2020 focusing on "localization of interstate conflict with foreign forces involved."[11] On 18 February 2022, leaders of pro-Russian proxy states in eastern Ukraine ordered a mass evacuation of citizens to Russia, raising fears that Moscow was manufacturing a pretext for intervention.[12] The same assessment indicated that Russian forces had encircled Mariupol and were subjecting it to an artillery, rocket, and missile barrage.[13][14]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ; ; ; "The Russia-Ukraine War Report Card, Sept. 2, 2026", Russia Matters; ; (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ; *; ; (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Russia 'grants Ukraine's Viktor Yanukovych protection'", BBC News, 2014-02-27; ; "Poroshenko sworn in as Ukrainian president", Interfax-Ukraine, 2014-06-07 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ; (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: *; * (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ; ; {{#invoke:cite|news|last=Fořtová |first=Klára |date=8 March 2022 |title=Velvyslanec Ukrajiny v Česku denně promlouvá, ruský mlčí a je 'neviditelný' |language=cs (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ; ; * (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)" (CC BY-SA 4.0) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ; * (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ; ; ; ; Perrigo, "What Putin Gets Wrong About Ukraine's Statehood", 22 February 2022; ; (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  11. https://www.csis.org/analysis/russian-and-ukrainian-spring-2021-war-scare. facts only, no text reused. csis.org
  12. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/18/pro-russian-separatist-order-mass-evacuation-eastern-ukraine-fear-moscow-seeking-create-pretext-invasion. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
  13. https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-4. facts only, no text reused. criticalthreats.org
  14. https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-4. facts only, no text reused. understandingwar.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present) (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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