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Ukraine Crisis

Everything you need to know about the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.

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Ukraine: How we got here
The Ukraine crisis has become the bloodiest European conflict since the wars over the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s -- but what triggered the violence and what is happening on the ground?
Civilian casualties highest since August 2015
Ukraine in political crisis as 'heavy weaponry' returns
Ukraine Fast Facts

The Latest

Analysis

On the Ground

International Perspective

Obama, Merkel pledge alliance
Trump on Ukraine

TV and Video

Ukraine: Russia allegations 'a provocation'
Rocket blasts soup kitchen

CNN Money

Europe to Russia: We won't blink
Europe won't even think about relaxing sanctions on Russia unless it sticks to a Ukraine peace agreement signed four months ago.

CNN iReport

Are you there? Share your stories
Have you witnessed the turmoil in Ukraine? Share your experiences, but please stay safe.

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A picture taken on July 17, 2014, shows flames amid the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in rebel-held eastern Ukraine.

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A Real Madrid football team fan holds a replica of the Champions League trophy in the surroundings of the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid on June 3, 2017 during the UEFA Champions League football match final Juventus vs Real Madrid CF held at the National Stadium of Wales in Cardiff. / AFP PHOTO / OSCAR DEL POZO (Photo credit should read OSCAR DEL POZO/AFP/Getty Images)

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Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump's personal attorney, walks to the Loews Regency hotel on Park Ave on April 13, 2018 in New York City. (Yana Paskova/Getty Images)

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 17: Former Donald Trump presidential campaign manager Paul Manafort looks on during Game Four of the American League Championship Series at Yankee Stadium on October 17, 2017 in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

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Korean People's Army (KPA) soldiers march on Kim Il-Sung sqaure during a military parade marking the 105th anniversary of the birth of late North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung, in Pyongyang on April 15, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / ED JONES (Photo credit should read ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images)

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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 21: Special counsel Robert Mueller (C) leaves after a closed meeting with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee June 21, 2017 at the Capitol in Washington, DC. The committee meets with Mueller to discuss the firing of former FBI Director James Comey. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

NY Times: Mueller looking at $150K payment from Ukrainian billionaire

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on January 8, 2018 shows files photos of FBI Director Robert Mueller (L) on June 19, 2013, in Washington, DC; and US President Donald Trump on December 15, 2017, in Washington, DC.

Trump on march 18, 2018, intensified his attacks on Mueller's Russia investigation as biased against him, but stopped short of targeting the special counsel -- whose ouster lawmakers warned would cross a "massive red line." In an early-morning flurry on Twitter, Trump insisted that Mueller's team of investigators is staffed with "hardened" Democrats biased against him.
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NYT: Mueller probing payment made to Trump

Former President George W. Bush takes the "Ice Bucket Challenge" in 2014.

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Paul Manafort, advisor to Donald Trump, is seen on the floor of the Quicken Loans Arena at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, July 19, 2016.

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RUSSIA: "Saint Basil's Cathedral...It's just so dazzling & exceptional. Built in 1555 on orders from Ivan the Terrible, it commemorates the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan. The building is shaped as a flame from a bonfire rising into the sky, a design that has no analogues in Russian architecture." - CNN's Khalil Abdallah @madcameraman.

Russia Fast Facts

Russian President and Presidential candidate Vladimir Putin exits a polling booth as he prepares to cast his ballot during Russia's presidential election in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, March 18, 2018. Putin's victory in Russia's presidential election Sunday isn't in doubt. The only real question is whether voters will turn out in big enough numbers to hand him a convincing mandate for his fourth term — and many Russian workers are facing intense pressure to do so. (Yuri Kadobnov/Pool Photo via AP)

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Presidential candidate Vladimir Putin walks out of a voting booth at a polling station during Russia's presidential election in Moscow on March 18.

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PYEONGCHANG-GUN, SOUTH KOREA - MARCH 11: Oksana Masters of the United States competes in the Women's Cross Country 12km - Sitting event at Alpensia Biathlon Centre during day two of the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Games on March 11, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

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Analysts: Putin won't stop targeting enemies

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses supporters during a rally celebrating the fourth anniversary of Russia's annexation of Crimea at Sevastopol's Nakhimov Square on March 14, 2018.
Russia will vote for President on March 18, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Yuri KADOBNOV (Photo credit should read YURI KADOBNOV/AFP/Getty Images)

Vladimir Putin visits Crimea as he pushes for another term as President

Russian President Vladimir Putin plunges into the icy waters of lake Seliger during the celebration of the Epiphany holiday in Russia's Tver region early on January 19, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / SPUTNIK / Alexey DRUZHININ (Photo credit should read ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images)

The world simply shrugs at Russian aggression

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual press conference in Moscow on December 14, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Alexander NEMENOV (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images)

Putin: Maybe Jews or minorities behind US election interference

Former Trump campaign official Rick Gates leaves Federal Court on December 11, 2017 in Washington, DC.
In October, Trump's one-time campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates were arrested on money laundering and tax-related charges. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

Trump campaign aide Rick Gates pleads guilty in Mueller investigation

Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for Donald Trump, center, arrives at the U.S. Courthouse in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. Manafort and Rick Gates, former deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump, were accused in an Oct. 27 indictment of failing to register as agents in the U.S. for political consulting they did for Ukraine and pro-Russian politicians. They were also accused of conspiring to launder millions of dollars and hiding offshore bank accounts. Both men have pleaded not guilty. Photographer: Zach Gibson/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Dutch lawyer pleads guilty to lying about interaction with Rick Gates

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 17) is underway in the Mediterranean Sea. Ross, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of responsibility in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John Herman/Released)

US show of force sends Russia a message in Black Sea

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A Russian flag flies next to the US embassy building in Moscow on July 31, 2017. (MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images)

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"Five Elements of War" exhibition at the Ukrainian Institute of America

Smokes rises from the Intercontinental Hotel after an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018. Gunmen stormed the hotel in the Afghan capital on Saturday evening, triggering a shootout with security forces, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 17: Former Donald Trump presidential campaign manager Paul Manafort looks on during Game Four of the American League Championship Series at Yankee Stadium on October 17, 2017 in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

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The first Ukrainian prisoners get off a bus during a prisoner exchange at a checkpoint near the city of Gorlivka on December 27, 2018.
Ukraine and Russian-backed rebels on December 27 began to exchange more than 300 prisoners in the war-torn east of the country, the largest such swap since the insurgency broke out in 2014. The swap between the Kiev army and rebels from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics took place at a checkpoint close to the town of Gorlivka, 40 kilometres (25 miles) northeast of the rebels' stronghold of Donetsk.
/ AFP PHOTO / Anatolii STEPANOV (Photo credit should read ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP/Getty Images)

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US President Donald Trump (L) shakes hands with Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) as they pose for a group photo ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit leaders gala dinner in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 10, 2017.
World leaders and senior business figures are gathering in the Vietnamese city of Danang this week for the annual 21-member APEC summit. / AFP PHOTO / Vietnam News Agency / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)

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Ukrainian Armoured Personnel Carriers move cannons from their position near eastern Ukrainian city of Artemivsk, in the Donetsk region on February 26, 2015.

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Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe

US President Donald Trump meets with his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 20, 2017. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

US allowing Ukraine to buy arms from US companies

In this Nov. 6, 2017 photo, Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, leaves the federal courthouse in Washington. Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, who were charged with violating federal money laundering, foreign lobbying and banking laws for behavior occurring as far back as 2012, have pleaded not guilty. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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FILE -- Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, speaks to reporters during the republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, July 20, 2016. Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Trump's 2016 campaign and other associates, including Manafort, had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former senior American officials. (Sam Hodgson/The New York Times)

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WASHINGTON, DC: Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives at the Prettyman Federal Courthouse for a bail hearing November 6, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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US President Donald Trump (R) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin talk as they make their way to take the "family photo" during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017.
World leaders and senior business figures are gathering in the Vietnamese city of Danang this week for the annual 21-member APEC summit. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / JORGE SILVA (Photo credit should read JORGE SILVA/AFP/Getty Images)

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Demonstrators burn flares and wave Polish flags during the annual march to commemorate Poland's National Independence Day in Warsaw on November 11, 2017.
Poland's National Independence Day commemorates the anniversary of the Restoration of a Polish State in 1918. / AFP PHOTO / JANEK SKARZYNSKI (Photo credit should read JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

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US President Donald Trump (R) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin talk as they make their way to take the "family photo" during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017.
World leaders and senior business figures are gathering in the Vietnamese city of Danang this week for the annual 21-member APEC summit. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / JORGE SILVA (Photo credit should read JORGE SILVA/AFP/Getty Images)

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Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, speaks with reporters following a day of questions from the House Intelligence Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

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UNITED STATES - JULY 19: Paul Manafort, advisor to Donald Trump, is seen on the floor of the Quicken Loans Arena at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, July 19, 2016. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

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Rick Gates, a protege and junior partner of Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former campaign manager, in New York, April 24, 2017. A Trump campaign lawyer ordered transition team staffers to preserve records relating to Gates, a sign that he is a person of interest in the burgeoning federal investigation of dealings between the president's inner circle and Russia. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)

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US President Donald Trump speaks to the media prior to departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, October 25, 2017, as he travels to Dallas, Texas. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

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CLEVELAND, OH - JULY 17: Paul Manafort, campaign manager for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, is interviewed on the floor of the Republican National Convention at the Quicken Loans Arena July 17, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio. The Republican National Convention begins tomorrow. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Paul Manafort, campaign manager for Presumptive 2016 Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump, speaks during a Bloomberg Politics interview on the sidelines of the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., on Monday, July 18, 2016. Protests at the Republican National Convention will show "lawlessness" and "lack of respect" for political discourse, Manafort said. Photographer: Patrick Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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The US and The NATO flag fly in front of two US Air Force F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft at the Air Base of the Lithuanian Armed Forces in Siauliai, Lithuania, on April 27, 2016.

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US Defense Secretary James Mattis, center, attends a military parade to celebrate independence day in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. The Ukraine officially declared itself independent from the Soviet Union on April 24, 1991. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Mattis vows US support for Ukraine against Russian 'aggression'

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / An Ukrainian police expert seizes a gun at the scene where former Russian MP Denis Voronenkov was shot dead on March 23, 2017 in the center of Kiev.
Ukrainian President blamed Russia for the murder of Voronenkov, who moved to Ukraine last year and was wanted by Russia for fraud, saying it was an "act of state terrorism." / AFP PHOTO / Sergei SUPINSKY (Photo credit should read SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images)

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Two U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancers assigned to the 37th Expeditionary Bomb
Squadron, deployed from Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, flew from
Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, for a 10-hour mission, flying in the vicinity
of Kyushu, Japan, the East China Sea, and the Korean peninsula, Aug. 8,
2017. During the mission, the B-1s were joined by Japan Air Self-Defense
Force F-15s as well as Republic of Korea Air Force F-15s, performing two
sequential bilateral missions. These flights with Japan and the Republic of
Korea (ROK) demonstrate solidarity between Japan, ROK and the U.S. to defend
against provocative and destabilizing actions in the Pacific theater.

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TOPSHOT - This picture taken on July 4, 2017 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on July 5, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) celebrating the successful test-fire of the intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14 at an undisclosed location.
South Korea and the United States fired off missiles on July 5 simulating a precision strike against North Korea's leadership, in response to a landmark ICBM test described by Kim Jong-Un as a gift to "American bastards". / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS / STR / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
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Former Secretary of State George Shultz testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in Dirksen on U.S. national security strategy, January 29, 2015.

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Ukrainian soldiers from the 72nd brigade in training on the outskirts of Avdiivka.

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US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry speaks at the Energy Summit at Washington DC.

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Memorial unveiled for victims of MH17

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US President Donald Trump waves as he disembarks form Air Force One with First Lady Melania on July 13, 2017 at Paris' Orly airport, beginning a 24 hour trip that coincides with France's national day and the 100th anniversary of US involvement in World War I.
Donald Trump arrived in Paris for a presidential visit filled with Bastille Day pomp and which the White House hopes will offer respite from rolling scandal backing home. / AFP PHOTO / Thomas SAMSON (Photo credit should read THOMAS SAMSON/AFP/Getty Images)

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DNC denies working with Ukrainian government, but contractor floated anti-Trump material

US President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin hold a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Tillerson says sanctions to remain on Russia

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Tillerson finally takes center stage at Putin meeting

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WASHINGTON, DC - May 19: Kurt Volker, former U.S. NATO ambassador, is now managing director at BGR Group. (Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images)

State Department names special envoy to Ukraine

A picture taken on July 17, 2014 shows flames amongst the wreckages of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in rebel-held eastern Ukraine.

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