Continuation of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Aggression in the Donbas (2014–2015)

Mass unlawful detentions and abductions of civilians: "people who take to the streets with Ukrainian flags are persecuted and detained"^[1].

Large-scale exploitation of the tragedy at the Trade Unions House in Odesa (where pro-Russian activists died in the course of provoked street fighting) to create a state propaganda myth, invert the roles, and morally justify further aggression against Ukraine^[1].

Use of the Fancy Bear hacker group, controlled by the security services, to compromise the software of Ukrainian artillery crews (through infection of Yaroslav Sherstiuk's application) in order to obtain geolocation data and destroy the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine^[3]. Targeted cyberattacks by Russian security services on distribution substations of the Ukrainian power grid in the winters of 2015 and 2016, aimed at causing mass power outages for the civilian population^[4][5].

Targeted cyberattacks by Russian security services on distribution substations of the Ukrainian power grid in the winters of 2015 and 2016, aimed at causing mass power outages for the civilian population^[4][5].

A massive campaign of fabricating fakes to dehumanize Ukrainians (the myth of the "crucified boy" in Sloviansk, the invented death of a 10-year-old girl in Donetsk), as well as systematic editing of Wikipedia by Russian trolls to distort the facts about the war^[3]. A targeted information operation to conceal the Russian Federation's responsibility for the destruction of passenger flight MH17 by simultaneously injecting numerous contradictory and absurd versions (the "Spanish air traffic controller Carlos," an attack by a Ukrainian ground-attack aircraft) to disorient the international community^[3].

Open crossing of the state border by regular troops of the Russian Federation in the summer and fall of 2014 and in early 2015 to save the separatists from defeat, which led to massive losses of the Ukrainian army (Ilovaisk, Debaltseve)^[1][2].

Physical elimination of legitimate representatives of local government who put up open political resistance to the occupation (in particular, the brutal murder of Horlivka city council deputy V. Rybak for attempting to restore the Ukrainian flag)^[1].

Seizure of Sloviansk by the armed group of I. Strelkov and the formation of the separatist DPR/LPR under the supervision of Russian political technologists (A. Borodai) to destabilize the region from within^[1].

Instigation of armed clashes in Odesa on May 2, 2014, by pro-Russian activists (the "Anti-Maidan") with the aim of destabilizing the South of Ukraine, which escalated into street fighting and led to mass casualties in the Trade Unions House^[1][2].

An attempted armed seizure of power in the spring of 2014 through the storming of regional administrations in Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Luhansk by externally instigated separatists. In Kharkiv, the coup was quickly suppressed by Ukrainian law enforcement^[1].

Engagement in combat operations of Russian neo-Nazi groups (such as the "Rusich" sabotage and reconnaissance group under the command of A. Milchakov), whose ringleaders openly called for unmotivated sadistic violence against civilians ("Slaughter the homeless, the puppies, and the children!")^[6].

Systematic use of torture and physical violence against civilians in the occupied territories for any display of Ukrainian symbols or a pro-Ukrainian position^[1].