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Last Updated: May 31, 2025

Ukraine's memorial wall includes 2014 as part of the "Russian-Ukrainian War"

Russia: Official Acknowledgements

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  • April 17, 2014:

    • Putin acknowledges Russian military involvement in Crimea:

      • "Of course, the Russian servicemen did back the Crimean self-defence forces."

    • Putin hints at a limited Russian military operation in Ukraine: 

      • "Our task was not to conduct a full-fledged military operation there, but it was to ensure people’s safety and security and a comfortable environment to express their will."

  • August 27, 2014:

    • The Russian military acknowledges Russian troops in Eastern Ukraine but suggests it was an accident:

      • "These servicemen did indeed participate in patrolling a section of the Russian-Ukrainian border, and crossed it probably by accident at an unequipped and unmarked section."

  • February 15, 2015: 

    • Russia and Ukraine sign the Minsk II Agreement:

      • "Withdrawal of all foreign armed formations, military equipment, as well as mercenaries from the territory of Ukraine under monitoring of the OSCE. Disarmament of all illegal groups."

  • December 17, 2015:

    • Putin acknowledges Russian involvement in Donbas:

      • "We’ve never said there are no people there who deal with certain matters, including in the military area, but this does not mean that regular Russian troops are present there. Feel the difference."

 

Ukraine: Official Acknowledgments

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  • April 20, 2019

    • Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko acknowledges the ongoing war during the Presidential Debate: "An actor can’t wage a war against Russia."

  • May 20, 2019

    • President Zelenskyy Inaugural Address:

      • "Our first task is ceasefire in the Donbas."

      • "We are not the ones who have started this war."

  • September 21, 2022:

    • Zelensky addresses the United Nations:

      • "But Russia – instead of stopping the crime of aggression, which it started back in 2014 – turned it into a full-scale invasion."

 

Third Parties: Official Acknowledgments 

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  • United States

    • November 29, 2018

      • U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine acknowledges the war began in 2014:​

        • "For almost five years, Russia has fomented a war that has had more than 10,000 casualties."

  • France: 

    • February 24, 2022:

      • ​French diplomatic website​​

        • "​​At the end of 2013, a conflict broke out between Ukraine and the Russian Federation as a result of a political crisis in Ukraine."​​​

  • NATO:

    • 10 March 2017:​​

      • NATO website​

        • "Three years ago, ‘little green men’ appeared in Crimea, a prelude to Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea on 18 March 2014, and its so-called hybrid war in the Donbas."

 

Media acknowledgements: ​​​

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  • Kyiv Post

    • January 14, 2024:​

      • "It [the war] did not begin in February 2022 but 10 years ago with the events of the Revolution of Dignity when millions of Ukrainians took to the streets, refusing to live in a corrupt satellite state of Russia."

      • "[In 2014], Russia annexed Crimea and began the occupation of the Ukrainian Donbas region."

    • February 25, 2025:​

      • "3 years since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion on Ukraine. 11 years since the start of the Russian war against Ukraine."

  • Kyiv Independent

  • Pravda Ukraine:

  • EuroMaidan Press:

  • Interfax Ukraine:

    • July 22, 2024:​

      • "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that no one will agree to a war that will last another 10 years or more"

  • Ukrainian Weekly:

  • Bergen Global

  • PBS

    • February 22, 2024:​

      • "This Saturday marks two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in a war that started nearly ten years ago."

  • Chicago Tribune:

  • El Mundo

    • November 19, 2023:​

      • "Ukraine is approaching the tenth anniversary of the Maidan Revolution, immersed in a war for its independence that many see as a continuation of those street protests, which were brutally repressed by the police and ultimately led to the overthrow of Ukraine’s last pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych."

  • El Universal

    • November 21, 2024:​

      • "Since 2014, Russia and Ukraine have been locked in a tense confrontation that began with Russia’s annexation of Crimea. This conflict escalated significantly in 2022 with a full-scale invasion by the Russian government, triggering a crisis of global proportions."

  • Vox:

  • Politico

  • Washington Post

    • April 9, 2018:​

      • "By late 2014, the fighting involved large numbers of troops including Russian army regulars."

  • The Independent:

    • August 26, 2021:​

      • "The two former-Soviet nations are currently engaged in the Russo-Ukrainian War which started in 2014 following the Russian annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and the Russian backing of armed separatists in eastern Ukraine."

  • New York Times:

    • September 25, 2019​

      • "The White House froze more than $391 million in military assistance to Ukraine this summer; it had been intended to help Ukraine defend itself from Russian territorial aggression."

  • Reuters:

    • Dec. 30, 2014:

      • "The West has condemned Russia for its military incursions into Ukraine this year"

  • Associated Press:

    • September 9, 2016​

      • "As awful as the full-scale war was, some on Ukraine's front lines found it preferable to the seemingly endless grind of today's smaller clashes. ​"

  • Institute for the Study of War:

    • March 16, 2020:​

      • "Ukrainian soldiers in Donbass have received targeted text messages with Kremlin propaganda since the war began in 2014."

  • Pulitzer Center:

    • February 12, 2020:​

      • "More than 13,000 people have died in eastern Ukraine since the war began in 2014 following Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea."

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