Russian Federation

Russia at its largest territorial extent (as of Part 2).

* People’s Republic of Russia

* Georgia
* Ukrainian Federation
* Republic of Armenia
* First Republic of Belarus
* Second Republic of Belarus

The **Russian Federation**, informally **Russia**, is a country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. It was formed in 1991 during the breakup of the Soviet Union.

## Early Expansion

During and soon after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia got involved in several wars in Georgia, and gained *de facto* independence for breakaway states that they supported.

In February 2022, Russia publicly and officially invaded Ukraine. The initial stage of the invasion was a three-pronged attach from the north, east, and south, The northern front was mostly in and around Kyiv, focused on capturing the city, but the **Russians** withdrew at the start of April 2022 to focus on the east. The eastern front was set in the Donbas region and succeeded the **War in Donbas**. The southern front constituted the invasion of southern Ukraine through Crimea. The **Russians** steadily gained ground in these 2 fronts all throughout the first 3 months after the shock of the invasion wore off.

In Part 1, Russia continued its invasion of Ukraine. They continued to advance and captured the entirety of the Donbas region. They began to attack Ukrainian convoys delivering weapons. However, some of these weapons reached Ukrainian frontlines, and Ukraine accidentally fired some missiles into Russia. This caused Putin to escalate the war, sending the entire Russian military into Ukraine. The Russian reinforcements allowed them to overpower Ukraine in the north. In addition, a landing was made in Odessa, capturing large swathes of southern Ukraine. They encircled Ukrainian troops on the east side of the Dnieper River, who surrender. Belarus soon joined on the side of Russia. Russian and Belarusian troops from the southern and northern incursions pushed into the center of Ukraine and basically encircled the entire Ukrainian Army. However, Ukrainian troops freed the area around Kyiv and broke out of the encirclement. They then pushed the Russians and Belarusians far back in the north, a little in the south, but lost all territory to the east of the Dnieper, making that the new frontline. However, the Russians and Belarusians in the south pushed north and created a new encirclement around the Ukrainian Army. Ukrainian troops tried to break out of the encirclement, but did not succeed and had to either surrender or die. Russian and Belarusian troops crossed over Belarus’s southern border and invaded the mostly defenseless western part of Ukraine. Lviv was encircled, and was the final city of Ukraine to fall.

In the peace treaty ending the Russo-Ukrainian War, Russia annexed all land east of the Dnieper River, Belarus gained a small bit of land from northern Ukraine, and a pro-Russian government was installed in Ukraine.

Next, Russia invaded Moldova and quickly annexed it to Ukraine.

Finally, Russia invaded Georgia. Russia already controlled some parts of Georgia, which it used to invade, occupy, and annex the country easily.

## Allies

* CSTO
	+ Armenia
	+ Belarus
	+ Kazakhstan
	+ Kyrgyzstan
	+ Tajikistan
	+ Ukraine

## Enemies

* Ukraine
* Moldova
* Georgia