Liberation of Loxenia

1. ↑ Jax Esposita was arrested in Canto Haven on July 25, 2030, but remained president until July 27th
2. ↑ Victor Tyksamov was appointed as vice president on July 27, 2030 but defected on March 17, 2031. Despite this, Tyksamov formally held the office of vice president and was the signatory to the junta's surrender after the death of Stepan Poltorak

The **Liberation of Loxenia**, also known as the **Second Loxenian Civil War**, and in Loxeninan as the **Звільнення Локксенії**, was a prolonged war fought from August 10, 2030 until June 20, 2031, with the Libirachi Empire and the military junta of Loxenia attempting to enforce their rule over the nation by force. Following the Arrest of Jax Esposita in Canto Haven in July 2030, the government of Loxenia began to fall apart without it's central figure at the helm, allowing General Kragen Voldimir to take over the day to day operations of the nation as acting President, whilst Libirachi armed forces capitalised on the chaos to mount an invasion. The conflict was formally ended with the signing of the Kiev Accords on November 19, 2031

In the direct aftermath of the Arrest of Jax Esposita, Empress Penny Fox of the Libirachi Empire submitted a motion to Chairman Stanford Newman of the Eurasian Union of States to gather forces for an invasion of Loxenia; crossing over the Loxenian boarder on August 10, 2030, the Eurasian soldiers began to assault key boarder facilities and ultimately seize them with minimal fighting as the chaos in Kiev began preventing the Loxenian armed forces from coordinating their forces. As key boarder regions fell to the Eurasian forces, the Libirachi Empire began installing local rebel cells as provincial leaders, all under a coalition of forces under the government of exiled president Alex Glyn, whilst a bombing campaign against the city of Kiev was launched, killing acting President Kragen Voldimir after a bomb decimated the ministry of defence on November 25. Now faced with the loss of a second president in only a few months, a new government was formed under the leadership of Marshal Stepan Poltorak who became inaugurated as the President on November 28, 2030. Under the Poltorak government, the Loxenian junta began to press back against the EUS forces, launching an offensive in Sumy province to depose the Provisional Government set up by Alex Glyn, whilst Libirachi forces began to cross over the boarder through the Russian Federation beginning with an attack on Crimea on December 17th.

As the civilian government of Vice President Victor Tyksamov began to come into conflict with the military regime of President Stepan Poltorak, the armed forces began to attempt to curtail the civilian government and in March 2031 the offices of Tykasmov were raided by the army, forcing the vice president to flee the capital, although formally Tyksamov was never removed from office, meaning that the civilian government still legally had a leader, allowing for it's defection to the Rebel groups being led by Alex Glyn, creating the sixth National Coalition of Loxenia with Tyksamov as vice president. On May 16, 2031, the province of Rivne fell to the army of the Eurasian Union of States, leaving nearly half of the nation under the control of invading forces whilst only a small strip of land in the centre of the country operated under the leadership of President Poltorak as the EUS forces began to encroach around the province and city of Kiev, the Libirachi army to the east and the EUS army to the west. With only one land boarder out of the nation into friendly territory, a southern boarder with the Serbian Ascendency, the Loxenian government began to protect key routes out of the nation's capital city, with preparations being made for a siege of Kiev.

In the waning weeks of May, the Eurasian Union of States and Libirachi Imperial Army forces began to settle in for a siege of Kiev, blockading all major exits from the province and slowly tightening the net around the Loxenian capital city to force the Loxenian junta to flee; on June 14, 2031 with the city surrounded on all sides by hostile armies and a civilian government actively working against the army, President Stepan Poltorak committed suicide in the Loxenian presidential palace, effectively ending resistance to the Eurasian Union of States across the nation as military units began to surrender upon hearing of the death of their leader. With the presidency vacant, the National Coalition of Loxenia stepped up to office, installing provincial president Alex Glyn as the new President of Loxenia on an interim basis whilst installing Victor Tyksamov as Vice President.

## Year One

In the direct aftermath of the Arrest of Jax Esposita, Empress Penny Fox of the Libirachi Empire submitted a motion to Chairman Stanford Newman of the Eurasian Union of States to gather forces for an invasion of Loxenia, with the neighbouring nation of Belarus lending forces to the mission, whilst other EUS soldiers located within the area were drawn into the operation under the codename "Lionhead". Crossing over the Loxenian boarder on August 10, 2030, the Eurasian soldiers began to assault key boarder facilities and ultimately seize them with minimal fighting as the chaos in Kiev began preventing the Loxenian armed forces from coordinating their forces. As key boarder regions fell to the Eurasian forces, the Libirachi Empire began installing local rebel cells as provincial leaders, all under a coalition of forces under the government of exiled president Alex Glyn, allowing for a new provincial government to be formed as an alternative, with the group being given full membership to the Eurasian Union of States after the Loxenian membership had previously been exclusively for the government in exile from the Beijing embassy. Starting from November 7, 2030, a bombing campaign against the city of Kiev was launched, killing acting President Kragen Voldimir after a bomb decimated the ministry of defence on November 25, where the president was on an inspection of when the bombing raid began.

Now faced with the loss of a second president in only a few months, the Loxenian armed forces officially abdicated their power to a new government under the leadership of Marshal Stepan Poltorak who became inaugurated as the President on November 28, 2030. Under the Poltorak government, the Loxenian junta began to press back against the EUS forces, launching an offensive in Sumy province to depose the Provisional Government set up by Alex Glyn, whilst Libirachi forces began to cross over the boarder through the Russian Federation beginning with an attack on Crimea on December 17th. Coordinated by Eurasian Union General Commander Xu Fenlin, the invasion of Crimea saw thousands of Libirachi and Russian soldiers cross over into the peninsula, seizing the key province of Sevastopol along the way, before proclaiming the province to be under the control of the new interim government of Alex Glyn. Enraged by this, the Loxenian government sent Vice President Victor Tyksamov to negotiate an armistice and the handover of Crimea back to the junta at a joint summit in Dunsteen, although the summit ultimately resulted in failure following a lack of interest on either side for compromise, and subsequently the joint Eurasian Union of States invasion continued as before.

## Year Two

As the Liberation rolled into the 2031, the Libirachi government began to internally destabilise in the aftermath of the 2030 Libirachi Presidential Election which began to create a split between the Empress and the President, causing a direct legal gap between the rhetoric of the nation and the actual capabilities, causing the Libirachi Imperial Army to conduct it's own separate incursion into Loxenia via the Russian boarder, pushing along the south eastern coast of the nation in an attempt to bridge the gap between Crimea and the rest of the Libirachi forces. In the meantime, the Eurasian Union of States continued it's assault through Belarus, capturing northern provinces of the nation and forcing large parts of the Loxenian army to retreat away from the boarder and into the centre of the nation. As the civilian government of Vice President Victor Tyksamov began to come into conflict with the military regime of President Stepan Poltorak, the armed forces began to attempt to curtail the civilian government and in March 2031 the offices of Tykasmov were raided by the army, forcing the vice president to flee the capital, although formally Tyksamov was never removed from office, meaning that the civilian government still legally had a leader, allowing for it's defection to the Rebel groups being led by Alex Glyn, creating the sixth National Coalition of Loxenia with Tyksamov as vice president. With the unmitigated failure of introducing a civilian government, President Stepan Poltorak came under fire from his own administration as rival President Glyn began conducting an opposition government with the aid of Poltorak's defected civil service.

On May 16, 2031, the province of Rivne fell to the army of the Eurasian Union of States, leaving nearly half of the nation under the control of invading forces whilst only a small strip of land in the centre of the country operated under the leadership of President Poltorak as the EUS forces began to encroach around the province and city of Kiev, the Libirachi army to the east and the EUS army to the west. With only one land boarder out of the nation into friendly territory, a southern boarder with the Serbian Ascendency, the Loxenian government began to protect key routes out of the nation's capital city, with preparations being made for a siege of Kiev and, if necessary, a hasty evacuation across the boarder. Capturing the provinces of Poltava, Vinnitsa and Zhytomyr within the waning weeks of May, the Eurasian Union of States and Libirachi Imperial Army forces began to settle in for a siege of Kiev, blockading all major exits from the province and slowly tightening the net around the Loxenian capital city to force the Loxenian junta to flee; on June 14, 2031 with the city surrounded on all sides by hostile armies and a civilian government actively working against the army, President Stepan Poltorak committed suicide in the Loxenian presidential palace, effectively ending resistance to the Eurasian Union of States across the nation as military units began to surrender upon hearing of the death of their leader. With the presidency vacant, the National Coalition of Loxenia stepped up to office, installing provincial president Alex Glyn as the new President of Loxenia on an interim basis whilst installing Victor Tyksamov as Vice President. As the rest of the nation surrendered to the Eurasian Union of States, the new Glyn administration began to dismantle the remnants of the Loxenian armed forces, instead opting to take up full member status within the Eurasian Union of States and use the EUS forces in place of an internal armed force or police, essentially turning Loxenia into a Libirachi client state with the surrender of Loxenian foreign policy to the EUS Coordination Council on July 10, 2031. The Liberation of Loxenia came to an end on June 20th with the formal surrender of junta forces to the new government of Alex Glyn, with Vice President Victor Tyksamov acting as the representative to the military thanks to his appointment as Vice President under the Poltorak government.

## International Reaction

* Avalonia - Väldeminister Ada Nilsen praised the removal of the junta and the establishment of democracy, recognising Glyn's regime
* Belarus - As a member of the Eurasian Union of States, President Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya committed soldiers to overthrowing the junta
* Canto Haven - Governor Vanessa de Rouge formally recognised the new government in 2031, having also facilitated the Arrest of Jax Esposita
* Corporate Republic of Dunsteen - President Sunil Bakshi denounced the takeover as an "overreach of imperialist power"
* Ducist - Presidents Idi Amin and then later Cyril Ramaphosa both proclaim neutrality on the liberation
* Dunsteen - President Katharina Müller welcomed the overthrow of the military regime and the return of democracy to Loxenia
* Isgardia - President Melinia Vicetti welcomed Alex Glyn on a formal state visit to recognise the new regime
* Persia - President Geena Kulmuni welcomed President Glyn's reappointment with a bilateral summit with Loxenia
* Russian Federation - President Vladimir Putin congratulated the EUS forces for their "valiant efforts" to "free Loxenia"
* United Kingdom - Prime Minister Matilda Crow expressed concern at the reach of the Libirachi military but welcomed the new regime
* United States of America - President Alexander Turpin denounced the invasion as an overreach of the Libirachi Empire's power

## Leadership

(2025 - 2035)
(2030 -)
(2024 - *Present*)
(2023 - 2033)
(2023 - *Present*)
(2023 - 2030)
     **Kragen Voldimir**†
(2030)
     **Stepan Poltorak**†
(2031 - *Incumbent*)
(2031 - *Incumbent*)