It accused the group of torture, arbitrary executions and killings, and "destabilising activities" in regions like Donbas in Ukraine. Wagner was believed to have been active in the 2014 annexation of Crimea, conducting sneak attacks, reconnaissance and intelligence-gathering. Sky News previously spo...
What happened to Crimea after the Crimean War? What caused Russia to exit World War I in 1917? How did the Crimean War cause WWI? What changes were made to Russia after the Crimean War? What wars has Ukraine been in? What caused the conflict between Russia and Austria-Hungary? Who start...
warships more frequently deployed to the Black Sea in response to Russia’s 2014 attack on Crimea. For the most part, however, military intercepts — either in the air or at sea — are routine and have happened a number of times with Russian aircraft in the Pacific, particularly in the ...
he has pursued a policy of conquest abroad, forcefully annexing Crimea in 2014 and establishing a strong presence in Syria and the Middle East; he has secured an enduring alliance with China, notably through building the new “silk road” across the Arctic, now that the ice is melting as ...
Here's what happened to the 15 republics in the decades after the USSR’s disintegration. Russia After the Soviet Union dissolved, its preeminent republic endured political dysfunction and struggled to privatize its central command economy. While oligarchs accumulated great wealth, most Russians faced ...
In this same land grab, Russia invaded Crimea, a legitimate part of Ukrainian territory, and joined it to Russia by means of the Crimean Bridge whose construction began in 2016, effectively blocking Ukraine’s access to its ports on the Sea of Azov. Once again, the world watched these devel...
What happened this week to heighten tensions? On Monday, Putin formally recognized the contested eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as republics. Widely viewed as a signal that a full-scale invasion was imminent, Biden declared it“the beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.” ...
We know what happened next. In the aftermath of the attack, proof of on-site coordination at the Capitol are now coming into view. Using the chaos of a mass surge through multiple points of entry, a subset of the white nationalist mob were clearly collaborating to search for Congressional ...
HAS IT HAPPENED BEFORE? This is not the first time Russian aircraft have flown so close to U.S. aircraft in the Black Sea that it’s prompted the Pentagon to publicly condemn the incident for putting the crews at risk. In 2020, Russian jets crossed in front of a B-52 bomber ...
In the Arctic, while security was largely understood in the military sense during the Cold War (Tamnes & Holtsmark, 2014), the shift towards a larger understanding of the issue happened even before the end of the conflict, the Murmansk speech of 1987 being a famous turning point in this ...