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Cosmopolitan
while Russia had put pressure on the
Winter Olympics, a symbol of peace,
Ukraine government to reject it. The
was being held in Russia, it shocked
HistoricalBackground
scope of the protests widened, with
internationalsociety.Withareferendum,
calls for the resignation of President
the Crimean Peninsula gained
Beforethe2022Russianinvasionof
Viktor Yanukovych, claiming that
independence from Ukraine and was
Ukraine
Ukraine’seconomywouldbecompletely
annexedbyRussia.Aftertheannexation,
subordinated to Russia. In response to
pro-Russian protesters in east Ukraine
Euromaidan
the continued protests, the Yanukovych
alsoinsistedontheseparatistmovement,
government allowed gunfire to stop the
anditescalatedintotheDonbasWar.
Gnatoush
protesters. Eventually, on February 18,
2014, a mass protest in Kyiv resulted in
ⓒAlexandra
*The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO):
75 deaths and 1,100 injuries. President
An intergovernmental military alliance among 28
Europeancountriesand2NorthAmericancountries.
Yanukovych was overthrown by the
angryUkrainianpeople,andanewpro-
WarinDonbas
Western president, Petro Poroshenko,
tookoffice.
ⓒwordow
▲EuromaidanprotestersfillcentralKyivonDec.1,
*2008 Global Financial Crisis: A severe worldwide
2013.
economiccrisisthatoccurredinthelate2000s,dueto
thesuddendecreaseinhousingpricesandexcessive
mortgageloansintheStates.
Euromaidan is a wave of
demonstrations and civil unrest in
Annexation of Crimea by the Russian
Ukraine, which began on November
Federation
21, 2013, with large protests in Maidan
In February and March 2014, Russia
Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in
invaded and subsequently annexed the
Kyiv. The protests were sparked by the
Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. Since
Ukrainiangovernment’ssuddendecision
Russia feared that Ukraine would join
nottosigntheEuropeanUnionUkraine
NATO* and the pro-Western troops
AssociationAgreement,insteadchoosing
wouldbeplacednearRussia,Russiasent
closer ties to Russia and the Eurasian
armed forces and annexed the Crimean
Economic Union. As Ukraine’s foreign
Peninsula, which was originally part of
exchange reserves became scarce due to
▲ThearmedconflictintheDonbasregionof
Ukraine. Crimea has a population of
the 2008 Global Financial Crisis,* the
easternUkrainestartedin2014.
2.4 million, made up mostly of ethnic
pro-Russian Yanukovych administration
Russians with significant Ukrainian and
The Donbas War is an armed conflict
decided on December 17, 2013, to
CrimeanTatarminorities.Russiaargued
between pro-Russian, anti-government
conclude a 7 December 2013 Russian
that the annexation was to protect the
separatist rebels and the Ukrainian
-Ukrainianactionplantoofferaloanof
RussiansontheCrimeanPeninsulafrom
government forces in the Donbas region
15 billion dollars. Ukraine’s parliament
the process of the regime change with
of Ukraine, 802.9 km east of Kyiv, that
had overwhelmingly approved of
the Euromaidan. However, since the
brokeoutonApril6,2014.
concluding the Agreement with the EU,
incidenttookplacewhilethe2014Sochi
The purpose of the pro-Russian, anti-
government rebels was to achieve
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ⓒBBC
independence from Ukraine and
have Russia annex the Donbas area.
Kitwood/Getty
According to the New York Times,
unlike the Crimean Peninsula, in
which Russia had invaded by directly
ⓒDan
sending in its troops, the eastern region
was carried out in a way that secretly
supported the pro-Russian locals and
encouraged them to rise up on their
▲Afterarmedforceswithoutinsigniatookcontrol
▲Crimealiesonapeninsulastretchingoutfrom
own. Some eastern regions, including
ofthepeninsula,Russianpassportswere
thesouthofUkrainebetweentheBlackSeaand
issuedautomaticallytoCrimea’s2.4million
theSeaofAzov.
Odessa and Kharkiv, were eventually
people.
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