Ukraine marks two years of war

On 24 February, Ukraine marked two years since Russia invaded the country. Leaders from around the world joined the president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in the capital Kyiv. Zelensky said, “None of us will allow our Ukraine to end.” Why did the war begin? Russian president Vladimir Putin believes that Ukraine should be part of Russia. In 1991, Ukraine became an independent country when the Soviet Union broke up. The Soviet Union was a group of countries ruled from Moscow, the capital of Russia. In 2014, Russia invaded Crimea, a part of eastern Ukraine, and in 2022, Russian forces invaded the rest of Ukraine. Putin called this “a special military operation”, not a war, saying his aim was to “demilitarise” Ukraine (take away its army) to stop it threatening Russia. Ukraine had…

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