Ukraine timeline: From 2014 Maidan revolution to imminent annexation of four regions by Russia


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Russia is set to annex four regions of Ukraine on Friday. Moscow is doing so by citing ‘referendums’ which it claims saw citizens overwhelmingly vote to join it, while the Ukraine and the West denounced the ballots as rigged and the action as illegal. The ‘election’ saw armed Russian troops going door-to-door with election officials to collect ballots in five days of voting. The suspiciously high margins in favour of choosing Moscow are being characterised by the West as a land grab by an increasingly cornered Russian leadership after Russian troops faced some embarrassing military losses in Ukraine. Russian president...