"There was public pressure at the time on Putin to annex Donbass and Luhansk like he had Crimea. "With Crimea, I lived in Russia during the annexation in 2014, and everybody supported it. If Ukraine rejected Soviet ideology and the Soviet system, Stalin feared the downfall of the whole Soviet Union as Ukrainian rebellion could inspire Georgians, Armenians or Tajiks to the same.ĭr Jade McGlynn told the Sun Online: "Russia still has a very imperialistic understanding of itself and there is a famous quote that 'Russia cannot be an empire without Ukraine'. Some 15 years later, Stalin tried to quash any further dissent from Ukraine through policies that led to the starvation of five million people across the Soviet Union, including four million Ukrainians. More than a century ago, in 1917, the Ukrainians first tried to set up their own state - with the aftershock threatening to destabilise the whole Soviet Union.ĭuring the civil war that followed the revolutions in Moscow and Kiev, Ukrainian peasants rejected the imposition of Soviet rule. "Russia continues to violate international law,” said the Ukrainian navy Leaked Ukrainian government report says Russia is set to deploy 30,000 more troops to border after amassing 80,000 soldiers in the regionĪfter the Kiev sailors issued the threat to shoot, they were allowed to proceed, he said. Russia says the build-up is a three-week snap military drill to test combat readiness in response to threats from NATO.Īpril 14 - Russia sends 15 warships to Ukraine and stages live-fire-drills March 31 - Both Washington and Kiev report Russian troop movements in Crimea and at Russia's border with Ukraine - an area controlled by separatists.Īpril 1 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accuses Moscow of massing thousands of soldiers on the border and in Crimea.Īpril 2 - US President Joe Biden gives his 'unwavering support' to Ukraine. March 30 - Moscow and Kiev accuse each other of causing an escalation in violence. March 26 - four Ukrainian soldiers are killed 19 miles north of eastern city of Donetsk. March 5 - Ukraine slams an upsurge of violence in east of the country and calls on western allies to intervene. Russia's aggression in Ukraine has raised fears of all-out war in the region.
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