• SpaceBar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, while the armed separatists seized government buildings and proclaimed the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) and Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) as independent states. This sparked the war in Donbas, part of the wider Russo-Ukrainian War.