Russia Sends Aid Convoy to Ukraine, NATO Fears Invasion
As trucks supposedly carrying aid depart for Ukraine, NATO warns there is a “high probability” Russia will invade.
The Russo-Ukrainian War started with the Crimean Crisis in 2014, when Russia invaded and annexed the Black Sea peninsula from Ukraine, and includes the War in Donbas, where Russia encouraged and supports a separatist uprising.
As trucks supposedly carrying aid depart for Ukraine, NATO warns there is a “high probability” Russia will invade.
The speed of the Ukrainian army’s offensive seems to have taken the rebels’ leaders by surprise.
Russia’s propaganda has so strongly made the Ukrainian separatists’ case that it cannot back down now.
Ukraine accuses pro-Russian militants of shooting down an airliner that crashed in the east of the country.
After finalizing an association agreement with the European Union, Ukraine’s forces retake Sloviansk.
Three Ukrainian tanks were supposedly seized by Russia in the Crimea and then given to separatists in the east.
The separatists are so divided, it is difficult to find anyone Ukraine’s president could negotiate with.
Ukraine’s government interprets its election victory as a mandate for decisive action against the rebels.
Russia respects the referendums as an “expression of the people’s will” but stops short of endorsing the appeal.
Violence in southeastern Ukraine escalates as the government retakes a city near the Russian border.
Russia says its military exercises near the border with Ukraine are a response to NATO war games.
Russia’s “solution” for the crisis in Ukraine would stop the country from deepening its ties with the West.
Pro-Russian activists in the east of Ukraine refuse to back down unless the government agrees to a referendum.
With Russian troops amassing on Ukraine’s borders, a deeper incursion into its territory seems possible.
Russia stages large military exercises on Ukraine’s border as Germany warns of “catastrophe” unless it withdraws.