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• omaidan protests In November 2013, the Ukrainian Government of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych decided not to sign a planned Association Agreement with the European Union and demonstrations ensued in the capital Kyiv.

• began on 24 February 2022

• Russian military forces entered the country from Belarus, Russia and Crimea

• had already been eight years of conflict in eastern Ukrain

• Ukrainian Government forces and Russia-backed separatists

• new government was installed by the Ukrainian parliamen

• collapse of a power-sharing agreement

• Russian personnel, surrounded the airports in Crimea

• he Crimean autonomous assembly was then seized by pro-Russian forces

• assembly issued a declaration of independence and a subsequent referendum on union with Russia was held

• Russia has maintained its control over Crimea and supported pro- Russian separatist forces who also took control of parts of the Donetsk

• n Russian-supported separatists and Ukrainian government forces has continued in the Donbas

• Yanukovych suspends trade and association talks with the EU, opting to revive economic ties with Russia

• Protests

• Ukraine’s parliament votes to impeach President Yanukovych

• pro-Russia gunmen seize government buildings in the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea

• parliament approves President Putin’s request for Russian forces to be used in Ukraine

• signs a law formalising Russia's takeover of Crimea from Ukraine

• Yanukovych refuses to sign the association agreement

• Pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine’s easternmost areas