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2014 Ukrainian crisis
Part of the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution
Date23 February 2014–present
(10 years, 3 months, 1 week and 5 days)
Location

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Donetsk
Kharkiv
Luhansk

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Odessa
Dnipropetrovsk
Zaporizhia
Mykolaiv
Crimea
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Caused by
Goals
Methods
StatusOngoing
Parties
Lead figures
Casualties and losses

Since the end of February 2014, demonstrations by pro-Russian and anti-government groups have taken place in major cities across the south-eastern regions of Ukraine, in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the Euromaidan movement.

Beginning on 1 March, several governors' offices (RSA's) in various Eastern Ukrainian oblasts (provinces) were briefly occupied by pro-Russian activists. By 11 March all occupations had ended, after units of the local police and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) re-took the buildings.[29] In Donetsk, protests have descended into violence on multiple occasions, including on 13 March where one pro-Kiev protester was stabbed to death.[30][31] In Kharkiv, Patriots of Ukraine members shot dead a pro-Russian 'Oplot' gang member and a passerby on the night of 15 March when pro-Russian protesters attacked the Right Sector headquarters.[24]

According to officials and pro-government eyewitness accounts not all attendees of the protests are Ukrainian nationals; but a significant number of them are Russian citizens.[32][33] Pro-Russian activists, meanwhile, say that pro-Ukrainian counter-protesters consist of paid attendees and students who are under threat of expulsion from their universities (if they fail to attend the pro-Ukrainian rallies).[34] Donetsk oblast governor Serhiy Taruta alleges that rallies in Donetsk contain ex-convicts and others who traveled from Crimea.[35] Ukraine's security forces and border guards since 4 March have denied more than 8,200 Russians into the country as of 25 March. On 27 March, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Andriy Parubiy said that between 500 and 700 Russians were being denied entry daily.[36]

Various Russian news media outlets have used the term Russian Spring (Russian: Русская весна) to describe the protests.[37]

Background

In late January 2014 self-defense groups were hastily being formed in Sevastopol, Simerfopol, Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Sumy, and Odessa based on volunteers, including Cossacks and Soviet Afghanistan war veterans, that had helped breaking up pro-EU rallies in those cities.[38] Their aim was keeping (what they describe as) violent radical antigovernment rioters at bay.[38] At the time Donetsk and Luhansk had already formally authorized vigilante groups and Ukraine's Second Azarov Government had reportedly tasked the justice ministry with legalizing such groups nationwide.[38]

Public opinion

In a poll conducted by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in the first half of February 2014 33.2% of polled in Donetsk Oblast believed "Ukraine and Russia must unite into a single state", in Luhansk Oblast this number was 24.1%, in Odessa Oblast 24%, in Zaporizhia Oblast 16.7%, in Kharkiv Oblast 15.1% and in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast 13.8%.[39]

In an opinion poll taken 14-26 March by the International Republican Institute, 26-27% of Southern and Eastern Ukraine view the Euromaidan protests as a coup d'etat. Only 5% of respondents in Eastern Ukraine feel Russian-speakers are 'definitely' under pressure or threat. 43% of ethnic Russians ('definitely' or 'rather') support the decision of the Russian Federation to send its army to protect Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine. A minority 22% of Southern Ukraine and 26% of Eastern Ukraine support the idea of federalization of the country; 69% of Southern and 53% of Eastern support Ukraine remaining as a unitary state; 2% of Southern and 4% of Eastern support separatism ("divide into several countries").[40]


Timeline

Further information: Timeline of the 2014 Ukrainian crisis

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Crimea

Main article: 2014 Crimean crisis

Beginning on February 26, pro-Russian forces, many of which were widely believed to be Russian military without insignias,[41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49] began to gradually take control of the Crimean peninsula. During this time, the question of joining the Russian Federation was put to a referendum, which had a official turnout of 83 per cent and resulted in a 96% affirmative vote [50] but has been condemned by the EU, the USA, Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar officials as contrary to Ukraine's constitution and to international law.[51][52][53][54] On March 17, the Crimean Parliament declared independence from Ukraine and asked to join the Russian Federation.[55] On March 18 Russia and Crimea signed a treaty of accession of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol into the Russian Federation.[56][57] The U.N. General Assembly passed a non-binding resolution that declared that the referendum was invalid, and the incorporation of Crimea into Russia as illegal.[58][59]

Donetsk

Luhansk

Kharkiv

Odessa

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