Areas of southern and eastern Ukraine are occupied and controlled by Russia as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian war and the ongoing invasion. In Ukrainian law, they are defined as the "temporarily occu
Pro-EU demonstration in Kyiv, 27 November 2013, during the Euromaidan protests
Pro-Russian protesters in Donetsk on 8 March 2014, as the Kremlin deliberately stoked separatist sentiment among some local residents.
Russian-armed separatist militants in Donetsk, May 2018
Propaganda poster of grandmother with red flag in Saky, Crimea, 9 May 2022
Transnistria
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Transnistria, officially known as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and locally as Pridnestrovie, is a landlocked breakaway state internationally recognised as part of Moldova. Transnistria contro
Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine
…up-to-date, interactive map, see here) Map showing Russia in dark red with Russian-occupied territories in Europe in light red, as follows: In Moldova: Transnistria (1), since 1992 In Georgia: Abkhazia (2) and South Ossetia (3), since 2008 In Ukraine: Crimea (4) and parts of Luhansk Oblast (5) and Donetsk Oblast…
Igor Smirnov, first president of Transnistria from 1991 to 2011
Igor Smirnov with Vladimir Voronin and Dmitry Medvedev in Barvikha, 18 March 2009
Dniester River in Bender (Tighina)
The supreme council building in Tiraspol, fronted by a statue of Vladimir Lenin