There is a reason why Ukrainians insist the world refers to Russia’s assault against Ukraine in 2022 as a “full-scale” invasion. Russia’s war against Ukraine did not begin on Feb. 24, 2022, but in 2014, with both the annexation of Crimea and the invasion of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. While the Kremlin openly boasted of its annexation of the Crimean peninsula, it tried to conceal its involvement in the war in Donbas for years.
The United States is taking new steps—steps it once said it would not take—to help Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine gets the Patriot anti-missile system and Ukrainian soldiers get a
Ukraine's capital Kyiv has endured a century of sieges, terrible attacks and revolutions. We look at its tormented history: After the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in February 1917, Ukrainians wanted to break free of the Russian Empire of which they had been a part for two centuries. Ukrainian nationalists declared autonomy on November 20, 1917, and then independence in