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Why Russia is fighting with Ukraine ?
Overview
November 2021
Satellite imagery shows a new
build-up of Russian troops on the
border with Ukraine, and Kyiv
says Moscow has mobilized
100,000 soldiers along with tanks
and other military hardware.

December 7, 2021
US President Joe Biden warns Russia
of sweeping Western economic
sanctions if it invades Ukraine.
December 17, 2021
Russia presents detailed security
demands to the West, including that
NATO ceases all military activity in
Eastern Europe and Ukraine and that the
alliance never accept Ukraine or other
former Soviet nations as members.

January 3, 2022
Biden reassures Zelenskyy that the US will
“respond decisively” if Russia invades Ukraine.
January 10, 2022
US and Russian officials meet in Geneva for diplomatic talks but
differences remain unresolved as Moscow repeats security
demands that Washington says it cannot accept.

January 24, 2022

NATO puts forces on standby and reinforces its military presence
in Eastern Europe with more ships and fighter jets. Some Western
nations start evacuating non-essential embassy staff from Kyiv.
The US puts 8,500 soldiers on alert.
January 26, 2022
Washington presents a written response to Russia’s security
demands, repeating a commitment to NATO’s “open-door” policy while
offering a “principled and pragmatic evaluation” of Moscow’s
concerns.

January 27, 2022

Biden warns of a likely Russian invasion in February. China throws

its political weight behind Russia and tells the US that Moscow’s
“legitimate security concerns” should be “taken seriously”.
January 31, 2022

The US and Russia spar over the Ukraine crisis at a

special closed session of the UN Security Council.

February 6, 2022

Russia has established 70 percent of the military build-up it

needs to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to
the US officials cited anonymously in US media.
February 8, 2022
French President Emmanuel Macron meets Putin for marathon
talks in Moscow and tells reporters Russia will not escalate the
Ukraine crisis.

However, the Kremlin denies that Macron and Putin struck a deal on
de-escalating the crisis. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says
that “in the current situation, Moscow and Paris can’t be reaching
any deals”.

February 10, 2022

UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Russian Foreign Minister
Sergey Lavrov hold fruitless talks.
February 11, 2022

Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, says US

intelligence shows a Russian invasion could begin within days,
before the Beijing Olympics end on February 20.

February 12, 2022

Biden and Putin hold talks via video conference. The US president
says a Russian invasion of Ukraine would cause “widespread
human suffering” and that the West was committed to diplomacy
to end the crisis but “equally prepared for other scenarios”.
February 16, 2022

NATO says there is no sign of Russian de-escalation as it tasks

its commanders to work out details for the deployment of battle
groups to the alliance’s southeastern flank.

February 18, 2022

Biden says he was “convinced” Putin has made a decision to
invade Ukraine, warning Moscow against starting what he called a
“war of choice” that would be catastrophic.
February 19, 2022
The Russian-backed leaders of Ukraine’s two breakaway
regions announce a general mobilization, spurring fears of a
further escalation.

February 21, 2022

Putin recognizes two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine,
Donetsk and Luhansk, as independent entities and then orders
Russian troops to “maintain peace” there.
February 22, 2022
Biden announces what he calls the “first tranche” of sanctions
against Russia, including steps to starve the country of financing.

The US earlier said Russia’s deployment of troops into two

Moscow-backed, self-proclaimed republics in eastern Ukraine
amounts to the “beginning of an invasion”.

February 23, 2022

Ukraine’s parliament votes to approve a national state of emergency
in response to the threat of a Russian invasion.

Meanwhile, Biden allows sanctions to move forward against the

company that built the Russia-to-Germany Nord Stream 2 gas
pipeline and against the company’s CEO.
 The Siege Day

February 24, 2022

Russian forces unleash an attack on Ukraine, as Putin

demands Ukrainian army to lay down its weapons.

Putin also urges other nations to not intervene.

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