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Battleground Ukraine: 10 Years Of Russian Aggression

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2022 (Credit: AFP)

Ukraine has been locked in an existential fight for its freedom ever since Russia sent armed soldiers with no insignia -- dubbed the "little green men" -- to take over the Crimea peninsula on February 28, 2014, following a pro-EU revolution in Kyiv.

The annexation of Crimea marked the beginning of a decade of Russian aggression against its former Soviet neighbour.

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