Ukraine. Russian

For the first time since the start of hostilities Russian military officials concede that Russian troops crossed into Ukraine but they insist that the incursion was accidental. On April 29 1918 the Ukrainian Peoples Republic was dissolved.

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The Ukrainian military announces that 10 Russian paratroopers have been captured near the town of Dzerkalne roughly 12 miles 20 km from the Ukrainian-Russian border.

. The Russian military is positioning itself to be able to conduct a large scale military operation against Ukraine and its force posture indicates that if. Russian state-owned TV broadcast false stories about fascists in the streets of Kyiv a ban on the Russian language in Ukraine and. Speaking to Ukrainian TV channel ICTV owned by billionaire businessman Victor Pinchuk Aleksey Reznikov dismissed the possibility of an.

Despite increased fears over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine there is no indication that Moscow is planning to launch an offensive in the near future the defense minister in Kiev said on Monday. The Ukraine depicted on this map is a rump state that the German led armies of the Central Powers had removed from Russian domination just before the March 3 1918 signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk granting Ukraine independence from Russia. While Russian politicians continue to frame Ukraine as Russian for their own benefits this view ignores how Ukraine has persevered in the face of forced assimilation cultural differentiation imperial belligerence and colonial exploitation to become its own country.

Olivia Durand is a postdoctoral associate in history at the University of.

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