February 20 is celebrated every year The day of the start of Russian aggression against Ukraine, because it was on this day in 2014 that a military operation to occupy Crimea began. In 2022, the conflict will be 8 years old.

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine consists in the arbitrary armed seizure of the Crimean peninsula and military operations in the east of Ukraine, which has been ongoing since April 2014.

Russia has launched an informational, economic, legal, energy and armed war with the aim of destroying the independence and territorial integrity of the Ukrainian state.