{"description": "russia-colonialism techniques used by Beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Invasion and Occupation of Crimea (2014), ATT&CK campaign C0100 (v1.1)", "name": "Beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Invasion and Occupation of Crimea (2014) (C0100)", "domain": "russia-colonialism", "versions": {"layer": "4.5", "attack": "", "navigator": "5.2.0"}, "techniques": [{"techniqueID": "T0017", "comment": "The legal formalization of the territory's severance: the treaty on \"accession\" was signed on March 18, 2014, and the law ratifying it was \"Adopted by the State Duma on March 20, 2014, approved by the Federation Council on March 21, 2014\"(Citation: \u0424\u0435\u0434\u0435\u0440\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0437\u0430\u043a\u043e\u043d \u2116 36-\u0424\u0417 \u043e \u0440\u0430\u0442\u0438\u0444\u0438\u043a\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 \u0434\u043e\u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0440\u0430 \u0441 \u0420\u0435\u0441\u043f\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u041a\u0440\u044b\u043c 2014).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0137", "comment": "The official denial of Russian troops' participation during the operation \u2013 and Putin's later admission (call-in show, 17 April 2014) that the denial was a lie: \"behind the backs of Crimea's self-defense forces, our servicemen, of course, stood\"(Citation: \u041f\u0440\u044f\u043c\u0430\u044f \u043b\u0438\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0441 \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u043c \u041f\u0443\u0442\u0438\u043d\u044b\u043c 2014). In the same broadcast an interlocutor congratulated him on having \"honestly said that the 'little green men' are our peaceful military\"(Citation: \u041f\u0440\u044f\u043c\u0430\u044f \u043b\u0438\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0441 \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u043c \u041f\u0443\u0442\u0438\u043d\u044b\u043c 2014).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0019", "comment": "The use of regular troops without insignia to establish control over the peninsula. A year later V. Putin admitted it on his call-in show of 17 April 2014: \"behind the backs of Crimea's self-defense forces, our servicemen, of course, stood. They acted very correctly, but\u2026 decisively and professionally\"(Citation: \u041f\u0440\u044f\u043c\u0430\u044f \u043b\u0438\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0441 \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u043c \u041f\u0443\u0442\u0438\u043d\u044b\u043c 2014). Ukrainian garrisons on the peninsula were blockaded and disarmed, as Putin himself admitted: \"and the way the Ukrainian units were disarmed - all of this was done so swiftly that it seemed it had been prepared for an incredibly long time\"(Citation: \u041f\u0440\u044f\u043c\u0430\u044f \u043b\u0438\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0441 \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u043c \u041f\u0443\u0442\u0438\u043d\u044b\u043c 2014).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0037", "comment": "The installation of a controlled administration under military cover: the decisions of the Crimean parliament were taken in conditions where \"behind the backs of Crimea's self-defense forces, our servicemen, of course, stood\"(Citation: \u041f\u0440\u044f\u043c\u0430\u044f \u043b\u0438\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0441 \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u043c \u041f\u0443\u0442\u0438\u043d\u044b\u043c 2014). The UN General Assembly declared the ensuing referendum void and confirmed that it \"was not authorized by Ukraine\"(Citation: Territorial integrity of Ukraine (A/RES/68/262) 2014). OHCHR recorded the \"election\" scene itself: overnight into 27 February \"armed groups without insignia took over the buildings of the local government and parliament,\" and \"on 27 February, members of the Parliament of Crimea, in the presence of gunmen, dismissed the local Government and elected Sergey Aksenov as the Head of Crimea\"(Citation: Situation of human rights in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol (OHCHR) 2017).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0109", "comment": "The manufacturing of an appearance of mass pro-Russian mobilization on the peninsula: behind the \"self-defense forces,\" in whose name the operation was conducted, stood Russian troops, as Putin admitted on 17 April 2014: \"behind the backs of Crimea's self-defense forces, our servicemen, of course, stood\"(Citation: Territorial integrity of Ukraine (A/RES/68/262) 2014). Rally and \"volunteer\" crowds supplied the picture of a popular impulse whose legal significance the UN rejected(Citation: \u041f\u0440\u044f\u043c\u0430\u044f \u043b\u0438\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0441 \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u043c \u041f\u0443\u0442\u0438\u043d\u044b\u043c 2014).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}], "gradient": {"colors": ["#ffffff", "#66b1ff"], "minValue": 0, "maxValue": 1}, "legendItems": [{"label": "used by Beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Invasion and Occupation of Crimea (2014)", "color": "#66b1ff"}]}