Ukraine War

The Ukraine War resulted in the rapid conquest of Ukraine by Russia in October 2015. The war caused relations between Russia and the west to plummet. Many analysts consider this was the end of the post-Cold War world order.
==History==
===Ukraine Crisis===
In 2014, after President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine fled as a result of a revolution, Vladimir Putin requested and received authorization from the Russian Parliament to deploy Russian troops to Ukraine. Pro-Russian rebels and in-uniformed Russian troops seized control of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula from Ukrainian troops. Following a Crimean referendum in which separation was favored by a large majority of voters but not accepted internationally, the Russian leadership announced the annexation of Crimea by Russia. On 27 March the United Nations General Assembly voted in favor of a non-binding resolution opposing the Russian annexation of Crimea. 
In April of 2014, pro-Russian separatists launched an insurgency against the Ukrainian government to gain their independence as Novorossiya. Pro-Russian rebels seized control of much of the coal and iron rich and predominantly Russian speaking Donetsk and Luhansk regions in southeastern Ukraine. Under the leadership of newly elected Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainian Army and the Novorossiyan Army fought back and forth for control over the Donbass region for over a year.
In August of 2015, Putin begin implementing plans for a full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. First, Russian military intelligence and Belorussian collaborators assassinated then Belorussian President Alexander Lukashenko replacing him with a Russian puppet who agreed to closer integration with Russia and cooperation in an upcoming invasion of Ukraine. Next, Putin ordered his Novorossiyan puppets to launch on offensive to distract the world and draw Ukrainian troops into the southeast away from other potential combat zones. Finally, Putin initiated a massive arms build up of over 85,000 men and thousands of tanks in Belarus under cover of annual military exercises.
===Russian Invasion===
On 6 October 2015, the Russian army landed 8,000 troops outside of Odessa and quickly seized control of the city. Over the following days, Russia along with Belarus and Novorossiya, took control of most of Eastern Ukraine, and by 15 October, they had surrounded Kiev. Three days later, Kiev fell to Russian forces. On 29 October, the Russian Duma voted to annex Novorossiya, which by this point had control of most of Ukraine, while the Ukrainian government requested annexation as an autonomous republic to Poland.
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