In the eight years since then, about , and 1 million people have fled to escape the fighting.
On 8 April, the Russian ministry had announced that all its troops and divisions deployed in southeastern Ukraine would be united under General , who was placed in charge of combined military operations, including the redeployed probative fronts originally assigned to the northern front and the north-eastern front which were subsequently withdrawn and reassigned to the second phase to the southeastern front.
The were signed in September 2014 and February 2015 in a bid to stop the fighting, although ceasefires repeatedly failed.
How is the situation at present? The websites of the Ukrainian parliament and government, along with banking websites, were hit by attacks, widely attributed to Russian-backed hackers.
The scope of the war now establishing full control over Donbas and southern Ukraine.
For example sourced 47% of its wheat imports in 2021 from Ukraine.