The Russo-Ukrainian war is an ongoing conflict that began in 2014 between Ukraine and Russia. It started after Ukraine's then-president Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in a popular uprising in Kiev in February 2014. Russia annexed Crimea, a peninsula in Ukraine's south, and then began supporting separatists in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine. The conflict has claimed over 13,000 lives and displaced millions of people. The fighting has been sporadic but intense at times, with frequ...