Russian Hybrid War against Ukraine: Were Russian Unconventional Paramilitary Formations a Key Component during the Crimea Annexation and War in Donbass
Journal: Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research Library (CARL) Digital Library (US Army Combined Arms Center)
Year: 2019

Ukraine is now on the front line of a new generation of hostilities, in which Russia is overshadowing the boundary between war and peace. For Ukraine the point of reference in this new generation of war has become the Kremlin's seizure and annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea in February-March 2014. Two months later, in April 2014, Russia began an armed conflict on the Eastern part of Ukraine, which continues to this day. The Kremlin says that the ethnic Russians in the Crimea used the internation