Annexation of Territories

Aggressors may carry out the forcible and unilateral annexation of another state's territory. Such actions are accompanied by the complete abolition of the sovereignty of the captured entity and the final integration of its lands into the occupier's legal and economic space through the issuance of corresponding manifestos or the staging of sham electoral procedures.

ID: T0017
Sub-techniques:  No sub-techniques
Tactic: Persistence
People: Ukrainians
Version: 1.0
Created: 21 April 2026
Last Modified: 21 April 2026

Procedure Examples

ID Name Description
C0081 Annexation and Sovietization of Western Ukraine (1939–1941)

Official forcible annexation of the occupied lands of Western Ukraine (1939), and then of Northern Bukovyna and Bessarabia (1940), with their integration into the administrative structure of the Ukrainian SSR[1].

C0100 Beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War: Armed Invasion and Occupation of Crimea (2014)

Official legal ratification by the State Duma of the Russian Federation on March 18, 2014, of the forcible incorporation of the Crimean Peninsula into Russia[1].

S0009 Diplomacy

Severing of Bessarabia from the Ottoman Empire and its official annexation by the Russian Empire under the Treaty of Bucharest of 1812[2].

S0008 Government

Official forcible annexation of the occupied lands of Western Ukraine (1939), and then of Northern Bukovyna and Bessarabia (1940), with their integration into the administrative structure of the Ukrainian SSR[1].

S0008 Government

Official legal ratification by the State Duma of the Russian Federation on March 18, 2014, of the forcible incorporation of the Crimean Peninsula into Russia[1].

S0010 Regular Army

Seizure and incorporation into the empire of Right-Bank Ukraine, Volhynia, and Podolia as a result of the partitions of the neighboring state[3].

G0009 Russian Empire

Seizure and incorporation into the empire of Right-Bank Ukraine, Volhynia, and Podolia as a result of the partitions of the neighboring state[3].

G0009 Russian Empire

Severing of Bessarabia from the Ottoman Empire and its official annexation by the Russian Empire under the Treaty of Bucharest of 1812[2].

G0011 Russian Federation

Official legal ratification by the State Duma of the Russian Federation on March 18, 2014, of the forcible incorporation of the Crimean Peninsula into Russia[1].

C0039 Russo-Turkish War and the Annexation of Bessarabia (1806–1812)

Severing of Bessarabia from the Ottoman Empire and its official annexation by the Russian Empire under the Treaty of Bucharest of 1812[2].

C0037 Second and Third Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1793–1795)

Seizure and incorporation into the empire of Right-Bank Ukraine, Volhynia, and Podolia as a result of the partitions of the neighboring state[3].

G0010 USSR

Official forcible annexation of the occupied lands of Western Ukraine (1939), and then of Northern Bukovyna and Bessarabia (1940), with their integration into the administrative structure of the Ukrainian SSR[1].

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