![]() ![]() At the same time Russian president Vladimir Putin discussed Ukrainian events with security service chiefs remarking that "we must start working on returning Crimea to Russia". The events in Kyiv that ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych on 22 February 2014 sparked pro-Russian demonstrations as of 23 February against the incoming new Ukrainian government. ![]() ![]() This event took place in the relative power vacuum on the immediate aftermath of the Revolution of Dignity and was the beginning act of the wider Russo-Ukrainian War. In February and March 2014, Russia invaded and subsequently annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. 9,268 military servicemen and 7,050 civilian employees defected ΔΆ civilian deaths (during the protests), 1 civilian killed (by Crimean SDF under command of a former Russian serviceman).40,000 reservists, partly mobilised (outside Crimea).Special-Purpose Border Guard Bn (Yalta).37th Comms and Control Rgt (Sevastopol). ![]()
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