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Russia Invades Ukraine

February 1, 2014 (Re-aired February 1, 2022) – In 2014, as unrest in Ukraine provoked one of the biggest confrontations between Russia and the United States since the Cold War, FRONTLINE documented the crisis up-close. With Ukraine once again in the spotlight, revisit “The Battle for Ukraine,” in which filmmaker James Jones documented both sides of the fight in 2014 between Ukraine’s ultra-nationalist group, Right Sector, and a militant, pro-Russia group called Stronghold. Drawing on personal and dramatic footage, Jones documented deep-seated hatreds between right-wing Ukrainians with historic ties to the Nazis, and violent pro-Russian separatists vying for control of the country.

February 9, 2022 – Vladimir Putin has already annexed Crimea and plunged Donbas into war. Now, he has amassed 100,000 troops at the Ukrainian border. Why can’t Russia leave Ukraine alone?

00:00 – The world’s eyes are on Ukraine
00:55 – Russia and Ukraine’s shared history
02:08 – Caught between Russia and the West
04:04 – Ukraine’s post-independence struggles
06:30 – Putin’s domestic issues
07:47 – Will Putin invade Ukraine?

February 20, 2022 – The story of the Ukraine-Russia crisis does not begin in 2021, or 2014. It begins in the 9th century. There was a time when the two countries were one. There was a time when Ukraine gave its nuclear arsenal to Russia. Palki Sharma Upadhyay will tell you why Putin wants Ukraine.

February 24, 2022 – Russian tanks have entered Ukraine in the Luhansk region as well as from Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, Ukraine’s border guard service reports. The border guard also reported one casualty from shelling on the border with Crimea, the first confirmed military death during the invasion. Earlier, Ukraine said eight people had died in the shelling. Police in Ukraine have said they are distributing weapons to veterans.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air campaign against Ukraine was not targeting cities and did not pose a threat to civilians, according to the Russian state-run RIA news agency. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said weapons will be issued to those who want them and called on Ukrainians to donate blood. In an address to the nation, he said Russia had suffered losses during the initial stages of its invasion and added Ukraine had severed diplomatic relations with Russia. He concluded his emotional speech, “Glory to Ukraine!”

Russia Launches “Special Military Operation”
Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine

February 24, 2022, at 5:30 a.m. Moscow Time, Russian state television channels began broadcasting an address by Russian president Vladimir Putin, announcing a “special military operation” full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

February 24, 2022 – Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says Russia has launched a “full-scale invasion of Ukraine.” President Vladimir Putin earlier said Russia was to conduct a “military operation.”

February 24, 2022 – Special edition of Global News Podcast: Nato secretary general condemns Russian attack on Ukraine as a cold-blooded invasion; how did events develop overnight and what happens next?

February 24, 2022 – Ukrainian forces battled Russian invaders as hundreds of thousands of people fled their homes in the biggest attack in Europe since the Second World War. Here’s how the assault unfolded and world leaders reacted.

February 25, 2022 – Kyiv is now a capital under siege. Russian forces are already near the outskirts. Explosions and gunfire have been reported across the city. Citizens have been told to make Molotov cocktails. They have been given thousands of automatic weapons to resist the Russian advance. Elsewhere there’s been heavy fighting around the country’s second city of Kharkiv. Russia says it has seized control of a strategic airport, while President Zelenskiy made another impassioned appeal “when missiles kill our people.” He declared “they kill all Europeans.” Now, this week, NATO is joining Ukraine!

February 26, 2022 – War in Europe: Special ITV News program as Russia continues its assault on Ukraine.

Сила і честь України (silla i chest ukrainian) . . . Strength and Honor Ukraine

Today is February 28, 2022.

I know it’s early . . . yes, very early . . . but I just can’t help admiring the grit, determination, and resolve of the men and women of Ukraine.

It’s truly breathtaking to witness the fierce bravery, steadfast spirit, and obvious fighting ability of the men and women of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Ukrainian men and women are stand up and cheer role models for the world. They have shown the world their strength and honor in the face of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of their country.

We’ve all been told about the overwhelming strength and power of the Russian Armed Forces, which is absolutely true, but let’s face it, the Russians have not been winning their fights against the Ukrainians.

From the first day of Putin’s invasion, Ukrainian soldiers, sailors, airmen, and private citizens have convincingly embarrassed the Russian armed forces that have invaded Ukraine.

Relations between Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) were formally established in 1992, but as of last week, Ukraine has not been invited to join NATO.

Now, this week, NATO is joining Ukraine!

Member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, including the USA, have decided to join Ukraine by sending Javelin anti-tank missiles, Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, and all kinds of defensive weapons, equipment, and humanitarian assistance that the Ukrainians desperately need to carry on their fight to defend their homeland.

Just about every country in the world is also cooperating together to sanction Russia from participating in the world financial system.

Сила і честь України . . . Strength and Honor Ukraine

March 2, 2014 – President Obama calls Vladimir Putin as tensions in Ukraine intensify.

March 2, 2022 – Ukraine is under attack. On February 24th, Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin called it a “special military operation,” but the scale of the attack shows this is a full-scale war that has already caused more than 100 casualties and forced more than half a million Ukrainians to flee their homes. Ukraine and Russia’s conflict goes back to 2014, when Russia invaded and annexed Crimea and Russian-backed separatist forces took over parts of southeastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. But to understand the full context behind the invasion, it’s important to go even farther back, to the time when Europe’s current-day divisions began, and see how that shaped Europe’s power balance today.

March 3, 2022 – On December 25, 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. Along with it came hope for the end of the Cold War, and for the independence and freedom of the former Soviet republics. But for many it also brought poverty and war. What remains of the dreams of that time? Russian President Vladimir Putin described the collapse of the Soviet Union as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.” For many years, Putin has been nursing his smoldering desire for revenge. On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine. This documentary, originally released in 2021, shows the path that Russian foreign policy has followed under Putin. It includes contemporary witnesses and politicians of the decisive years, and shows what has become of the legacy of Russia as a former world superpower.

March 4, 2022 – Russian forces continue to push deeper into Ukraine. Thousands seek shelter, while others volunteer to fight. We’re on the ground in Kyiv as events unfold.

March 6, 2022 – Just outside Kyiv, the town of Irpin has endured another day of sustained shelling by Russian forces. Sky News has spoken to families fleeing their home who say they were targeted. One said ‘they are shooting at schools and hospitals – all the time.’ Sky’s Special Correspondent Alex Crawford reports.

March 13, 2022 – Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun says Ukraine has never been as united as it is “right now”. “I don’t think there is a single person that disagrees about the fact that Putin attacked us without any good reason,” Ms Sovsun told Sky News host Chris Smith. “With every single attack, the spirit is getting stronger. “That is something Putin didn’t expect.”

March 21, 2022 – We take you inside the Ukrainian city that’s become the center of resistance to Putin’s plans to create a new order in Europe. Join reporter Sarah Ferguson, camera operator Ryan Sheridan and producer Tony Jones on a heart-stopping journey across the battle lines of Ukraine. We take you from the western city of Lviv near the Polish border to the embattled capital, Kyiv, and on to the historic and strategically vital southern city of Odesa on the Black Sea, which seems about to become the next front line in the war. Across the country, quiet civilians are now military volunteers, determined to save their country from the Russian invaders. ‘If they dare come here, we will burn them to ashes. Not one will be left alive,’ one fighter told us. Their message over and over is that the people of Ukraine will fight to the end.

March 21, 2022 – Ukrainians have not given up the fight despite the mass destruction. Based in Chermalyk, Donbas, on February 22, under the shellfire that immediately followed Putin’s declaration of invasion, our journalist experienced the explosion of the war on the Ukrainian front. They then ensued an endless westbound trip on deserted roads, spending nights in air-raid shelters, where he met friends and Ukrainian citizens outraged by the war. After crossing the country, he tells us about the fear, the terror, the resistance and courage of Ukrainians under the Russian bombs.

March 24, 2022 – When Vladimir Putin’s Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the world changed. From the Ukrainian defiance spearheaded by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the brutality of Russian forces, this is a timeline of each day from the first month of war in Europe.

May 3, 2022 – Since Russia began its new invasion of Ukraine on February 24, journalists from RFE/RL and Current Time have been in the thick of the action. From frontline combat to the flood of refugees, casualty wards, and gathering evidence of war crimes, they have chronicled every aspect of the war.

May 7, 2022 – As the war in Ukraine upends lives, thousands have stepped into critical roles. A CEO takes on the dangerous mission of driving aid into a city that’s bombed every day. A Kyiv resident figures out how to keep frontline defenders fed in wartime conditions. A Polish architect crosses into the war zone to rescue stranded civilians. They’re part of a new force to be reckoned with, as thousands of Ukrainians step away from their homes and jobs, to keep the country running as Russia attacks. These are their stories of navigating Life Under Siege.

June 23, 2015 – Channel 4 News had unique access to both sides of the front line in Ukraine’s civil war. Filmmaker Paddy Wells spent several weeks filming with both the pro-Russian separatists and the pro-government forces – both of whom are firing into the distance at an enemy they never see.

August 24, 2022 – On February 24, 2022, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin ordered thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine on a ‘special military operation.’ Since then, scores of people have been killed and cities have been reduced to rubble.

September 28, 2022 – Boris Bondarev was until May of 2022 a Russian diplomat working in the foreign ministry and posted to Moscow’s mission to the United Nations activities in Geneva. Disgusted with the war, Bondarev publicly resigned and criticized the war unleashed by Vladimir Putin. Sham “referendums” in occupied regions of Ukraine, a mobilization of Russian conscripts and more nuclear threats from the Kremlin don’t indicate a Russian victory anytime soon. With protests spreading in Russia, and hundreds of thousands fleeing conscription, how much has the catastrophic war in Ukraine undermined Vladimir Putin’s hold on power? Bondarev spoke to Tim Sebastian from an undisclosed location about the future of the Putin regime. “He’s put himself in a situation where there are no good exits,” Bondarev said. How real is the nuclear threat? How to do Russian officials expect the West would respond to a nuclear strike from Moscow?

Chapters:

00:00 Intro
00:52 Welcome to Boris Bondarev
01:10 “Referendums” in Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia
02:42 Russian mobilization
04:08 Russian military deception amd disinformation
06:30 Russia is not isolated
06:55 Poisonings of Skripals and Navalny
07:23 Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
08:34 No victory unless the West surrenders to Putin
09:05 Advance knowedge of Ukraine invasion
10:19 Nuclear strikes against the West, World War Three
11:28 Russians can suffer as long as it takes
11:48 Radioactive ruins vs. Russian values
12:55 Putin’s last resort, nuclear blackmail
13:41 Fate of regime dependent on course of war
14:59 Russian elites are split now
15:50 Why did Putin start this war?
16:50 Crimea, NATO, and Western interference
17:55 No good exits
18:20 Bondarev’s own safety
18:50 Mysterious deaths in Moscow
19:25 Nuclear weapons, Jake Sullivan, and deterrence
20:40 Indicators of Russian nuclear strike
21:20 Radiation pills in Kherson oblast
22:30 Cuban missile crisis and hotline to West
24:40 Putin is the only obstacle

October 14, 2022 – Fighting continues on the outskirts of the city of Bakhmut in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. Russian forces have been trying for several months to capture Yakovlivka, a village near Bakhmut. The village is destroyed, but Ukrainian troops continue to push back enemy advances in the area.

December 6, 2022 – On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to invade Ukraine. Russia called the invasion a ‘special military operation.’ Since then, tens of thousands of people have been killed and millions have fled Ukraine. These are the key milestones from the conflict.

December 22, 2022 – Russia seemed poised to capture Kyiv in the first phase of the war until an array of Ukrainian missiles fended off Russian tanks. A Royal United Service Institute (RUSI) report claims that Ukraine’s heavy artillery played a big role in foiling Russia’s advance. An aide of Ukraine’s General Valerii Zaluzhni had said “anti-tank missiles slowed the Russians down, but what killed them was our artillery”.

0:00 – INTRODUCTION
1:42 – HOW UKRAINIAN ARTILLERY HELPED FOIL RUSSIA’S KYIV MARCH
3:26 – LINES BETWEEN TANKS & ANTI-TANK MISSILES HAVE BLURRED

December 22, 2022 – Ukraine’s heavy artillery, not high-tech anti-tank missiles, is what stopped Russia’s rush to Kyiv during the early months of Putin’s February 2022, experts say. In the first days of the Ukraine war, when Russian armored columns seemed poised to capture Kyiv, the world watched outgunned and outnumbered Ukrainian troops use an array of missiles to fend off Russian tanks and decimate Russian convoys — or so it seemed. Many people believe the initial Russian offensive was halted in large part by Ukraine’s diverse arsenal of anti-tank missiles.

This included Ukrainian-designed Stuhna-Ps, laser-guided weapons fired from Turkish-made TB2 Bayraktar drones, and US-made Javelins and British/Swedish-designed NLAWs. In reality, it was Ukrainian artillery that frustrated the Russian advance, according to a Royal United Service Institute report on lessons of the Ukraine war. “Despite the prominence of anti-tank guided weapons in the public narrative, Ukraine blunted Russia’s attempt to seize Kyiv using massed fires from two artillery brigades,” according to the British think tank’s report, which assesses the fighting between February and July 2022.

December 29, 2022 – CNN’s Clarissa Ward discusses the moment she realized Russia was invading Ukraine and she would be covering the conflict for a long time.

December 30, 2022 – As we look back over the year and try to peer into the future, one event stands out more than any other. The unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine. The world has responded with surprising unity and speed. Providing humanitarian and military support to Ukraine, the imposition of economic sanctions on Russia and even inviting Sweden and Finland into NATO. To sum up all these events watch our interview with Mr. Dakota L. Wood, Senior Research Fellow for Defense Programs at The Heritage Foundation.

February 10, 2023 – What Russia didn’t want anyone to see leading up to their February 24, 2022 invasion of Ukraine

February 22, 2023 – On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. One of the principal targets was Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. Most outside observers, including U.S. intelligence, believed that the political center of would fall quickly. But as the hours turned to days, and the days turned to weeks, Ukraine proved that Kyiv would not fall so easily. But the story of how Kyiv survived is complicated. A combination of Russian miscalculations and clever Ukrainian strategy made the difference. The dreaded 64-kilometer Russian Kyiv convoy fell apart, giving Ukraine a fighting chance for the rest of the war.

00:00 The Russian Kyiv Convoy Departs
03:55 Russia’s Mobilization
11:52 Russia Tries to Keep a Secret
21:21 Russia’s Ticking Time Bomb
24:04 Ukraine’s Game Plan
24:31 Keeping Zelensky Alive
27:46 Stopping Russian Sky Bridges
29:53 Canceling out the Russian Air Force
32:36 Repelling the Ground Assault
38:25 How Ukraine Destroyed the Convoy
45:47 Epilogue
48:31 Happy Trails, Times New Roman!

March 3, 2023 – One year ago, Russia launched its illegal invasion of Ukraine. As their forces continue to relentlessly attack the country, Russian officials keep spreading blatant lies and disinformation about their brutal war against a peaceful country. Russia claimed it had no plans to attack Ukraine, and yet it did. Russia claimed it would not target civilians, while many civilians have been killed and wounded, with hospitals, homes, schools and critical infrastructure destroyed across the country. Despite the Kremlin’s continued litany of lies, denials and disinformation, their real intentions are clear for the world to see. As Russia launches new offensives, NATO Allies stand in solidarity with Ukraine and will support Ukraine for as long as it takes.

March 4, 2023 – Why Russia’s ‘elite’ units are wiped out in Ukraine.

March 15, 2023 – It’s been over a year since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. A year of pain, destruction and bloodshed – Hundreds of thousands killed and millions more displaced from their homes. But it wasn’t supposed to be like this. According to a research by the think tank RUSI, when Vladimir Putin began his invasion, he expected to take control of Ukraine within 10 days. So what went wrong? Why did his plan fail? And how close did he come to succeeding? To find out, we spoke to Ed Arnold, Research Fellow, European Security at RUSI, to uncover what went wrong for Russia during those crucial first 10 days of the conflict.

June 21, 2023 – During the first days of 2022, there was only talk of one thing: The Russians are coming! This was confirmed on February 24 of the same year, when the invasion began. Since then, Putin’s troops have caused a huge wave of annihilation, destruction and tens of thousands of lives lost in Ukraine. The Russians have destroyed power plants, thousands of schools, hundreds of hospitals and all kinds of infrastructure. To give you an idea, by April 2023 the estimate of direct damage caused by the war already exceeded $150 billion. And yet, despite all the damage caused by Vladimir Putin, Ukrainians want to continue fighting. They don’t want to negotiate, they want to win this war, whatever it takes. And the question is, why, despite all the suffering, do Ukrainians want to keep fighting? In this video we tell you the main reasons.