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Opinion | Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, deserves a place in history books for being more widely anticipated in Washington than in Moscow — or even Kyiv.  In the weeks before that fateful Thursday, U.S. officials, relying on their own intelligence sources, predicted confidently that Russia was going to attack Ukraine.

Almost immediately following the end of the EuroMaidan Revolution in Ukraine in February 2014, Russia swiftly moved to annex and occupy the Crimean Peninsula. Within a couple of months, unrest erupted in eastern Ukraine followed by Russian-backed militias taking over administrative buildings. The events mark the start of Russia's 10-year invasion and occupation of Ukraine that continues to this day.

Opinion | Ever since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia has been integrating representatives of local Ukrainian elites into its power structures.

When speaking about allegations of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s role in the decision to send a Buk missile system to Donbass, which was supposedly used to bring the aircraft down, Dmitry Peskov stressed that "no reasons were provided for such statements"

Signed in the 2014 and 2015 by representatives of Ukraine, the Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples Republics, Russia, France and Germany, the Minsk Agreements failed to bring a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Donbass.

RT's correspondent in Donetsk outlines the local reaction to the referendums on reunification with Russia Read Full Article at RT.com

Last week, referendums on once-again becoming part of Russia were held in the Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (LPR) People's Republics, as well as in the liberated territories of Zaporozhye, Kherson, and Nikolaev regions (the latter was annexed to...

Contemporary Russian politics are too often analysed without sufficient knowledge of Russian history. -- Orlando Figes, The Story of Russia, p 268 The conflict among nations in Ukraine and the breakaway Donbass oblasts/republics has been magnified in western monopoly media since Russia backed up its security demands. To the extent that people want to ascertain

The move makes North Korea only the third country after Russia and Syria to recognize the Donetsk (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republics (LPR).