The 2014 annexation of Crimea — How Russia stole Ukraine's peninsula
Russia seized Crimea in February 2014 amid the deadliest days of Ukraine’s EuroMaidan Revolution, and has occupied the peninsula ever since.
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Lucy Minicozzi-Wheeland
Lucy Minicozzi-Wheeland is a contributor and news intern at the Kyiv Independent, working with the support of an Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies Graduate Internship Grant. She is also earning her master’s degree in Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia at Harvard University. She is writing her master’s thesis about the war in Ukraine and she specializes in Ukrainian and Georgian studies. Lucy spent the 2019-2020 academic year serving as a Fulbright Student Researcher in Odesa, Ukraine, where she worked with prominent Ukrainian NGOs and universities such as the Odesa Center for Nonproliferation and Ukraine Crisis Media Center.
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Zelensky at Harvard University: ‘Prevention key to lasting peace’
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Amid mounting fears of Russia using nuclear weapons in its war against Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to an audience at Harvard University on Sept. 27 of the importance of preventing further Russian escalation before any devastating consequences occur.
“To react after the strikes happen, (means) you are already finding yourself amid a new round of escalation,” Zelensky said, speaking from Kyiv via video-conference.
Since declaring partial mobilization on Sept. 2
Lucy Minicozzi-Wheeland: By invading, Putin has lost Ukraine forever
When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his decision to invade Ukraine, his stated goal was to free Ukraine from the “neo-Nazis” that had supposedly taken the country hostage and prevented the Ukrainian people from choosing a common future with Russia. He expected Ukrainians to welcome Russian troops, grateful for their liberation. As we have seen, this was a fantasy.
Even before Putin began his full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, his eight-year war had already united the Ukrainian people l
