Financial Contagion in Central and Eastern European Capital Markets: The Case of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Journal: International Scientific Conference ERAZ.  Knowledge Based Sustainable Development
Year: 2022

Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th, 2022, marking a steep escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014 after the Ukrainian Dignity Revolution. The invasion caused Europe’s largest refugee crisis since World War II, with more than 5.5 million Ukrainians leaving the country and a quarter of the population displaced. At the outbreak of war in 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and Russian-backed separatists who par­ticipated in the south-eastern Donbas region of Ukraine, starting a regi