Invasion of Europe

The Invasion of Europe, the European Invasion, or the European Campaign, was an invasion by the Eurasian Coalition during its military occupation of Europe in order to conquer the continent. The conflict began when the Russian Armed Forces invaded and occupied Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the summer of 2032. They later launched the invasion of Ukraine, which was a three-year armed conflict before the Russian Forces occupied Ukraine. By autumn 2035, Russia and China had declared war on Europe. 
The European Invasion was the first fateful, major event leading up to the Great War and the events of The Dark Future Trilogy, which is recorded in the Commonwealth Archive.
== Overview ==
=== First Attacks ===
The invasion began when the United States, NATO and the European Union imposed political and economic sanctions on Russia to weaken and destroy the country. In response, the newly formed Eurasian Coalition also imposed political and economic sanctions against all European countries except Belarus. This particularly affected the Eastern European countries and the Coalition allowed their economies to collapse. This allowed the Russian Armed Forces to send in ground forces and tanks and within three years they had conquered all of Eastern Europe and Eurasia was enlarged. The war officially began when the Eurasian Military Forces attacked Poland and Britain, France, Germany, Spain and Norway declared war on Russia. In response, Russia and all the Eurasian member states declared war on the whole of Europe. 
=== Fall of Poland ===
The Battle of Poland was the first major battle of the war and the most disastrous. The first few months were the bloodiest, with Russian troops and artillery strikes constantly attacking Polish and NATO troops, and Chinese bombers bombing Polish cities, factories, military command centres, bases and even the capital Warsaw. Poland refused to give up, as their army fought to the end and suffered many casualties. NATO did everything it could, but Poland eventually fell into the hands of Russia and all European forces withdrew when NATO set up a military headquarters in Sweden and used Scandinavia as a form of defence against the Eurasian Powers.
=== Nordic Front ===
In Finland, the unified Finnish government set up a militarised border against Russia and was immediately attacked in the months following the fall of Poland. Russian ground troops, tanks and artillery fired into Finland, ransacking and destroying border towns and dismantling the militarised border, resulting in a brutal year-long winter campaign to repel the Eurasian Forces.
=== Third Balkan War ===
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=== Western Theater ===
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