When Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, it occupied vast portions of the country, having already occupied parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as well as the entirety of Crimea since the beginn
Civilians in Kyiv preparing Molotov cocktails, 26 February 2022
President Zelenskyy awarding a female soldier in June 2022
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
Ukrainian resistance in Russian-occupied Ukraine
…When Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, it occupied vast portions of the country, having already occupied parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as well as the entirety of Crimea since the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian…
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