Ukrainian Crisis

2013 ?

Euromaidan - Background
30th March 2012: The EU and Ukraine initiate an
Association Agreement
August 2013: The RF changed its customs regulations
on imports from Ukraine => significant drop in industrial
production
11th December 2013: Ukraine asked

the EU and the RF for 20 billion Euros

to offset the losses from August
(EU 610 million, RF 11,1 billion)

Euromaidan
21st November: first protests
1st December: the protests escalate into

violence
8th December: more than 500,000 attendees
22nd February 2014: president Yanukovich
flees after being ousted from power
over 120 deaths
neo-Nazi involvement

Russian intervention in Crimea

a pro-EU, pro-NATO party gained control over the
Ukraine => the Russian Black See Fleet based in
Sevastopol is threatened
23rd February 2014: a bill was passed which made
Ukrainian the sole state language in all of Ukraine

 26th February: pro-Russian forces began occupying the

Crimean peninsula
16th March: Crimean status referendum 96,77% for
joining Russia
1st January 2015: Crimea joined the Russian Federation

The War in Donbass

6th April: DPR
27th April: LPR
September: ceasefire
November and January: further
escalations
5400+ casualties
Around 800,000 people fled
to Russia