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To: ought-six
Russian invasion of Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that started in 2014. The invasion became the largest attack on a European country since World War II.[11][12][13] It is estimated to have caused tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties and hundreds of thousands of military casualties. By June 2022, Russian troops occupied about 20% of Ukrainian territory. About 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. Extensive environmental damage caused by the war, widely described as an ecocide, contributed to food crises worldwide

Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation

In February and March 2014, Russia invaded the Crimean Peninsula, part of Ukraine, and then annexed it. This took place in the relative power vacuum[30] immediately following the Revolution of Dignity and was the first act of the wider Russo-Ukrainian War.

137 posted on 02/06/2024 8:12:26 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

Your homies aren’t going to appreciate you quoting Wikipedia, Frick (aka Mrs. Frack).


138 posted on 02/06/2024 8:18:54 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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