The war in 60 minutes
Ukrainians are fighting for the right to live. This is happening in the 21st century in central Europe. Why is Russia trying to kill and exterminate not only its citizens, but everyone around?
For so many years, Russia has been using the same methods to restore the empire, disregarding not only international rules and agreements, but all human values, and taking thousands of innocent lives. Could one man’s madness really lead to a war of destruction? Who wants war more, Putin or the Russians themselves? Why is the death of Ukrainians the goal of Moscow?
Let's find out together in 60 minutes. Please click below to continue.
- 1960-80sNon-violent liberation movement
- February 25, 1986Gorbachev’s “Perestroika” as the beginning of the end of the empire
- July 7, 1988Ukrainian Helsinki Association
- 1989-1992Conflict between Moldova and Transnistria
- September 8, 1989Political party “Rukh”
- October 21, 1989Ukrainian National Party
- April 29, 1990The end of the Ukrainian Helsinki Association
- June 12, 1990Deadlock of “Perestroika”
- July 16, 1990Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine
- January 24, 1991Act of Independence
- June 12, 1991Election of the President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR)
- August 18, 1991August coup: the first chance Ukrainians don’t miss to become independent
- December 1, 1991Ukrainian Independence Referendum
- December 8, 1991Consolidation of the collapse of the USSR
- December 26, 1991The collapse of the Soviet Union
- August 14, 1992Next country: the Republic of Abkhazia
- 1992-2022“Russian World”
- July 2, 1993Resolution on "Main Directions of Foreign Policy"
- September 21, 1993Economics of Crime
- December 5, 1994Budapest Memorandum
- December 11, 1994Tactics 'Protection of the Russian-speaking populatio'
- June 28, 1996Constitution of Ukraine
- July 3, 1996Yeltsin’s second term
- September 2, 1996Monetary reform – the Ukrainian Hryvnia (the national currency) appeared
- May 31, 1997Treaty of Friendship
- June 11, 1998Strategy of Ukraine’s integration into the EU
- March 25, 1999Death of Vyacheslav Chornovil
- December 31, 1999Putin succeeds Yeltsin
- August 7, 1999Dagestan War
- August 26, 1999The Second Russian-Chechen War
- December 31, 1999Yeltsin’s fatal decision
- September 29, 2003Kerch Dam
- October 30, 2004Falsification of Yanukovych’s elections
- November 22, 2004The Orange Revolution
- March 5, 2007Negotiations with the EU on a new integration agreement
- April 2, 2008Plan for NATO membership
- September 8, 2008Russian-Georgian War
- September 9, 2008Paris Summit
- February 07, 2010Yanukovych is president
- April 21, 2010Kharkiv Agreements
- December 19, 201115th Ukraine-EU Summit in Kyiv
- November 29, 2013Yanukovych rejects the association with the EU
- November 30, 2013Dispersal of a peaceful rally
- November 30, 2013Revolution of Dignity
- February 20, 2014Annexation of Crimea
- March 21, 2014Signing of the political part of the Association Agreement with the EU
- April 7, 2014Separate districts of Donbas and Luhansk regions (ORDLO)
- June 7, 2014Petro Poroshenko becomes President of Ukraine
- July 17, 2014MH17
- August 10, 2014Battle of Ilovaisk
- September 16, 2014Ratification of the European Union-Ukraine Association Agreement
- February 27, 2015The murder of Boris Nemtsov
- September 30, 2015Carte blanche for Putin
- June 11, 2017Visa-free regime
- May 20, 2019Inauguration of Volodymyr Zelensky
- March 4, 2020Ukraine keeps the same course
- February 26, 2021Decree to return the Crimea
- August 23, 2021Summit of the Crimea Platform
- February 24, 2022Invasion of the Russian army