The Russian Invasion of Crimea 2014

On 27 February 2014, armed and masked men with no insignia or identification begin to appear in Simferopol, the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Ukraine. These “little green men,” as they will soon become better known, occupy key intersections and set perimeters around government buildings in the city. This is the official beginning of Russia’s invasion of Crimea, the first action in Russia’s quest to expand its territories into Ukraine.

Thanks to:

• Professor Mark Galeotti, author of ‘Putin Takes Crimea 2014: Grey-zone Warfare Opens the Russia-Ukraine Conflict' 
• Jesse Driscoll, Professor of Political Science in the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California San Diego and co-author of ‘Ukraine's Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022’ with Dominique Arel, Chair of Ukrainian studies at the University of Ottawa.

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