War in Donbas: Civil War or Russian Aggression?
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Kostyantyn Kravchuk and Igor Burakovsky / June 21, 2014
In March, Russia annexed Crimea, a peninsula with population of 2.4 m in the south of Ukraine, after it failed to divert Ukraine from the course for European integration. The escalation in Donbas could have been a first step of a large scale Russian intervention into the mainland Ukraine.