O Direito Internacional e Europeu Face à Invasão da Ucrânia - Um Ano Depois: Editorial
Journal: Scientific Repository of Open Access of Portugal (RCAAP)
Year: 2023

On 24 February 2022, the Russian Federation launched a large-scale military invasion of Ukraine, in what it referred to as a ‘special military operation’, but which was described by the United Nations General Assembly as an act of hostility against a sovereign state during a special emergency session that began on 28 February 2022 – only the 11th such session convened since the founding of the United Nations. The large-scale Russian invasion followed on from the interstate armed conflict in the