Russian History Timeline (Part 6)

Events 1001 - 1,103 of 1,103

• 2021-02-02 Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny jailed for three and a half years in jail over alleged parole violations in Moscow
• 2021-02-03 US and Russia extend their New START nuclear arms control treaty for five years, the last remaining nuclear arms deal between the two countries
• 2021-03-09 China and Russia agree to build a research station on or around the Moon and collaborate on lunar missions, in move that could start another space race

• 2021-04-21 Russian President Vladimir Putin warns the West not to cross a "red line" in his state of the union address, amid massing of 100,000 Russian troops on Ukraine border
• 2021-05-26 Russia reports it has started vaccinating domestic animals against COVID-19, using the Karnivak-Kov vaccine [1]
• 2021-06-07 Multicellular organisms (bdelloid rotifer) frozen for 24,000 years in Siberia to return to life after Russian scientists have them thawed [1]

• 2021-09-28 Russia reports its highest daily COVID-19 death toll of 852 amid its third wave of infections with less than half of the population vaccinated with one dose [1]
• 2021-10-24 COVID-19 cases in Eastern Europe pass 20 million with Russia, Ukraine and Romania in top five countries reporting deaths globally [1]
• 2021-11-16 Astronauts on board the International Space Station forced to take shelter as Russian weapons test creates 1,500 debris field
• 2021-12-07 US President Joe Biden warns Russian President Vladimir Putin of economic consequences if Russia continues a military build-up in Ukraine, during a virtual meeting
• 2022-02-07 European security facing its most dangerous moment since the Cold War, amid fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to EU foreign policy chief [1]
• 2022-02-07 French President Emmanuel Macron meets with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow amid build-up of Russian troops on border with Ukraine
• 2022-02-21 Russian leader Vladimir Putin recognises Russia-backed separatists in two Ukrainian regions, ordering in troops for "peacekeeping functions" [1]
• 2022-02-22 US President Joe Biden announces new sanctions against Russia, saying its latest moves in Ukraine amount to "the beginning of a Russian invasion" [1]
• 2022-02-24 Russian leader Vladimir Putin announces the start of a three day “special military operation” in Ukraine to "demilitarize" the country. Moments before Russia launched a full-scale pre-dawn and unprovoked invasion by land, air and sea, with bombings in several cities. [1]
• 2022-02-27 Countries sanction Russia for its invasion of Ukraine; EU closes its airspace to Russian planes, Russian banks excluded from worldwide Swift payment system, Sweden sends arms to Ukraine
• 2022-02-27 EU warns Russian invasion of Ukraine means Europe facing major humanitarian crisis, 18 million Ukrainians displaced with four million refugees fleeing the country
• 2022-02-28 Russia shells the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, while a 40 mile Russian military convoy approaches capital city of Kyiv
• 2022-03-03 Russian forces seize the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the largest in Europe
• 2022-03-07 UN refugee agency says Russian invasion of Ukraine has now led to 1.7 million people fleeing the country, civilian deaths recorded at 406 with 801 injured [1]
• 2022-03-08 President Joe Biden announces the US is banning Russian oil imports with UK phasing out imports by the end of the year
• 2022-03-09 Russian airstrikes on Ukrainian city of Mariupol hit a hospital, killing at least three people, as attempts to create a humanitarian corridor out of the city fail [1]

• 2022-03-20 Intense fighting in Ukrainian city of Mariupol continues as Russian forces encircle the city, trapping 300,000 people [1]
• 2022-03-23 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken formally declares that members of Russia armed forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine [1]
• 2022-03-26 US President Joe Biden says of Russian President Vladimir Putin, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power" in unscripted remarks in Poland [1]
• 2022-03-29 In a major victory for Ukraine, Russia announces it is withdrawing its badly mauled forces from around Ukraine's capital, Kyiv
• 2022-04-02 Ukraine liberates the entire Kyiv region from retreating Russian forces
• 2022-04-04 Ukrainian government begins a war crimes investigation after 410 civilians found killed after the withdrawal of Russian forces from around Kyiv [1]
• 2022-04-05 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urges UN Security Council to act against Russia, accusing Russian military of the worst war crimes since WWII, including execution, rape and torture of civilians [1]
• 2022-04-11 Mayor of Ukrainian city Mariupol says over 10,000 civilians have died in the Russian siege, with the likely death toll twice this, as bodies are " carpeted through the streets” [1]
• 2022-04-14 Russian ship Moskva, flagship of its Black Sea fleet, sinks in the Black Sea during the invasion of Ukraine amid conflicting accounts [1]
• 2022-04-18 Russia begins a major new offensive in Donbas, during their invasion of Ukraine [1]
• 2022-04-26 Russia says it will stop supplying gas to Poland and Bulgaria, after the countries refused to pay in rubles, escalating the energy supply standoff between Russia and Europe [1]

• 2022-05-03 US government says W.N.B.A. player Brittney Griner has been "wrongfully detained" in Russia, after being taken into custody when drugs were found in her luggage in Feb 2022 [1]
• 2022-05-15 Finland's government says it intends to apply to join NATO, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, ending decades of neutrality [1]
• 2022-05-16 Sweden formally announces it will seek to join NATO after 200 years of neutrality, in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• 2022-05-25 Russian forces pound eastern Ukrainian cities of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in attempt to take whole province of Luhansk, with at least 150 deaths [1]
• 2022-05-30 European Union agrees to a plan to block two-thirds of Russian oil [1]
• 2022-06-09 Russian leader Vladimir Putin compares himself to Tsar Peter the Great, who conquered the Baltic coast, at an exhibition to the Tsar in Moscow [1]
• 2022-06-18 Lithuania bans the passage of EU sanctioned goods across its territory and into Russian exclave of Kaliningrad [1]
• 2022-06-25 Eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk falls to Russian forces after weeks of fighting in the area [1]
• 2022-06-27 Russian missile strike on Ukrainian shopping center in Kremenchuk, with 1000 people inside kills at least 13 [1]
• 2022-07-09 Russian air strike on a residential building in Chasiv Yar, eastern Ukraine kills at least 47
• 2022-07-20 Russia now looking to extend its territory into southern as well as eastern Ukraine according to top Russian diplomat [1]
• 2022-07-26 Russia announces it will leave the International Space Station at the end of 2024 [1]
• 2022-08-01 First grain ship leaves Ukrainian port of Odesa, in UN brokered deal, breaking months long Russian blockade, to help alleviate global shortage [1]
• 2022-08-30 Ukraine begins a counterattack against Russia in the southern Kherson region [1]
• 2022-09-02 Russian state-controlled energy firm Gazprom indefinitely suspends supplies of natural gas to Germany and Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, amid accusations of weaponizing its energy supplies [1]

• 2022-09-15 Ukrainian authorities reveal discovery of mass grave of 450 burials near Izyum, some showing evidence of torture, after the withdrawal of Russian forces [1]
• 2022-09-21 Russian authorities claim 5,397 Russian soldiers have died fighting in Ukraine, Westerns sources put the figure at 25,000 to over 80,000 (NY Times) [1]
• 2022-09-21 Vladimir Putin announces partial mobilization of Russian population, drafting between 300,000 and 1.2m men to fight in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, prompting demonstrations around the country [1] [2]
• 2022-09-23 Russia holds sham referendums in four partly occupied Ukrainian regions with some Ukrainian citizens voters forced to vote at gunpoint

• 2022-09-26 Gunman opens fire on a school in Izhevsk, Udmert Republic in central Russia, killing 17 people including 11 children and injuring 24
• 2022-09-26 Probable Russian sabotage on two Nord Stream pipelines, delivering Russian gas to Europe, after seismologists record explosions in Swedish and Danish waters where three leaks appear [1]
• 2022-09-30 In defiance of international law Vladimir Putin announces Russia's illegal annexation of four Ukrainian provinces, Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia. Despite Russia occupying only part of each region. [1]
• 2022-10-01 Ukrainian forces enter the strategic town of Lyman in Donetsk province defeating Russian forces and forcing them to retreat to Kremina, barely a day after Vladimir Putin announced Russia's illegal annexation of Donetsk
• 2022-10-07 Nobel Peace Prize awarded jointly to Belarusian human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski, Russian human rights organisation Memorial and Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties [1]
• 2022-10-08 The Kerch bridge built by Russia to link Crimea to Russia and symbol of Russia's illegal occupation of Ukraine is partly blown up, allowing only light traffic to cross [1]
• 2022-10-12 UN General Assembly passes a resolution condemning Russia's attempted annexation of Ukrainian territory [1]
• 2022-11-05 Iranian government acknowledges sending a limited number of military drones to Russia in the months before the invasion of Ukraine [1]
• 2022-11-09 Ukrainian army says it has made major gains towards taking back the city of Kherson from Russian control [1]
• 2022-11-23 Russia steps up airstrike campaign on Ukraine, with widespread power blacks across the country and Moldova, Kyiv 80% without power or water [1]
• 2023-01-25 America and Germany announce decision to send powerful battle tanks (US 31, Germany 14) to Ukraine to fight Russia invasion
• 2023-01-30 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims that Russia has begun its "big revenge" with assaults around Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine after a couple months of stalemate [1]
• 2023-03-09 Russia begins major missile attack on Ukrainian cities and their infrastructure, with at least 11 killed and 20 injured [1]
• 2023-03-14 US large MQ-9 Reaper drone crashes into the Black Sea after collision with Russian fighter jet, with the US saying the Russia forced it down sparking an international incident [1]
• 2023-03-20 Chinese leader Xi Jinping visits Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow, the first between the two since Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago [1]
• 2023-04-04 Finland officially joins NATO at a ceremony in Brussels, becoming its 31st member and doubling NATO's border with Russia [1]
• 2023-04-11 Russian volcano Shiveluch erupts spewing ash 20 kilometers into the air in the country's eastern Kamchatka region [1]

• 2023-05-03 Mysterious explosive drone attack on the Kremlin in Moscow has no clear motive or link to people behind it, despite Russian claim it was attempt to assassinate Vladimir Putin, amid Ukrainian and US denials [1]
• 2023-05-16 "Ëxceptional" missile attack on Kyiv by Russian forces largely repelled by Ukrainian air defense [1]
• 2023-05-24 Mercenary Wagner Group says it is handing over the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, after capturing it for Russia, in one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the war so far [1]
• 2023-05-30 A drone strike on Moscow is the first attack on a Russian residential neighbourhood (with no casualties) since the invasion of Ukraine began [1]
• 2023-06-06 Major dam at Nova Kakhovka, in Russian-held Ukraine collapses sending flooding down the Dnipro river, prompting evacuation of thousands amid suspicions of Russian sabotage [1]
• 2023-06-26 Russian leader Vladimir Putin vows to bring leaders of the Wagner Group rebellion to justice, saying they wanted "to see Russia choked in bloody strife" [1]
• 2023-07-17 Russia pulls out of a deal allowing the export of Ukrainian grain past their naval blockade, threatening to push world food prices higher [1]
• 2023-07-30 Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warns war is coming back to Russia after a drones attack on Moscow [1]
• 2023-08-10 Russia launches its first lunar mission in 47 years (Lunar 25) - an uncrewed spacecraft to the Moon’s south pole from Vostochny Cosmodrome [1]
• 2023-08-20 Russia's Luna 25 spacecraft has crashed into the moon according to Roscosmos, the country's space agency [1]
• 2023-08-23 Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, reported killed along with 9 others in a plane crash northwest of Moscow, according to Russian Federal Air Transport Agency
• 2023-08-30 Largest bombardment of Ukrainian capital Kyiv for months by Russia leaves two dead, as Ukraine also bombards Russian territories with drones [1]
• 2023-09-06 Russian daytime missile attack on a Ukrainian market in Kostyantynivka kills 17 civilians [1]

• 2023-09-13 North Korea's Kim Jong Un meets with Vladimir Putin at the Vostochny space centre, eastern Russia in suspected arms deal [1]
• 2023-09-25 Ukraine's military claims a missile strike three days ago killed the commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol [1]
• 2023-09-27 NASA astronaut Frank Rubio returns to earth after an American record of 371 days in space, along with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin [1]
• 2023-10-05 Russian missile attack on a cake holding wake in Ukrainian village of Hroza kills at least 51 people [1]
• 2023-10-17 China's President Xi Jinping celebrates 10 years of its Belt and Rod project at summit in Beijing attended by Russian leader Vladimir Putin [1]
• 2023-11-02 Russia carries out its most extensive artillery attack of the year in Ukraine as Ukraine’s commander in chief admits the war has reached a deadlock [1]
• 2023-11-15 U.N. Security Council approves resolution calling for “urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip" 12-0 with US, UK and Russia abstaining [1]
• 2023-11-22 Finland closes all but one border with Russia after an influx of migrants orchestrated, it said, by Russia [1]
• 2023-11-30 Russia's Supreme Court labels LGBTQ+ 'movement' an extremist organization, effectively outlawing it [1]
• 2023-12-22 UN Security Council resolution votes to speed up delivery of desperately needed aid for Gaza 13-0 with Russia and the US abstaining [1]
• 2024-01-24 Russian military plane shot down by Ukrainian forces in Russia kills all 74 on board including 65 Ukrainian Prisoners of War, prompts accusations on both sides [1]

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