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Coalition of the willing (Russo-Ukrainian war)
Coalition of the willing: a UK- and France-led group of over 30 countries formed in March 2025 to defend a future Ukraine-Russia peace deal, planning the Multinational Force Ukraine reassurance force and binding security guarantees after a ceasefire.
Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act
CAATSA (Public Law 115-44, H.R. 3364) is the 2017 U.S. law imposing sanctions on Iran, Russia, and North Korea, passed 419-3 and 98-2, signed by Trump August 2, 2017, with Section 216 congressional review and Section 231 defense-sector sanctions.
Decommunization in Ukraine
Decommunization in Ukraine: removal of communist symbols, monuments, and place names since 1991, systematized by four laws of 9 April 2015 drafted under Volodymyr Viatrovych, extended after 2022 into derussification and a 2023 decolonization law.
Deep strike campaign
Ukraine's deep strike campaign: long-range drone and missile attacks on targets inside Russia since early 2024, also called strategic interdiction, centered on oil refineries, export nodes, airfields, and the Black Sea Fleet.
DeepStateMap.Live
DeepStateMap.Live (deepstatemap.live) is a Ukrainian volunteer OSINT project's interactive map of the Russia-Ukraine war front line, with six territory colors, near-daily updates since 2022, and over a billion views.
Donetsk fortress belt
Donetsk fortress belt: fortified line of Kostyantynivka, Druzhkivka, Kramatorsk, and Slovyansk along the H-20 highway, Ukraine's main Donetsk defense since 2014, over 380,000 pre-war residents, target of Russia's 2026 offensive.
Ghost of Kyiv (Привид Києва)
Ghost of Kyiv (Привид Києва), also Ghost of Kiev, was a mythical Ukrainian MiG-29 pilot credited with six kills in the first 30 hours of Russia's 2022 invasion. Ukraine's Air Force said in April 2022 the figure was a collective legend, and key footage came from the DCS video game.
Huliaipole offensive (Гуляйпільський наступ)
Huliaipole offensive (Гуляйпільський наступ): Russian autumn-winter 2025 offensive on the town of Huliaipole, eastern Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, flanking a front static since 2023, cutting the T-0401 route, and leaving the town contested by December 2025.
Ilya Ponomarev (Илья Владимирович Пономарёв)
Ilya Ponomarev (Илья Владимирович Пономарёв), also Ilya Vladimirovich Ponomarev, is a Russian opposition politician exiled in Ukraine since 2016 who was the only State Duma deputy to vote against the 2014 annexation of Crimea.
International recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic
Russia recognized the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics on 21 February 2022 by presidential decree, ending the Minsk agreements; the UN General Assembly demanded reversal (141-5), and Russia annexed the territories in September 2022.
International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War, also called sanctions during the Ukrainian crisis, are economic measures against Russia after the 2014 annexation of Crimea and the 2022 invasion.
Kerch Strait incident
The Kerch Strait incident was the 25 November 2018 Russian seizure of the Ukrainian naval vessels Berdyansk, Nikopol, and Yany Kapu and 24 sailors, leading to ITLOS provisional measures and Western sanctions.
Kharkiv Oblast campaign (2024–present)
Kharkiv Oblast campaign: Russian cross-border offensive launched 10 May 2024 toward Vovchansk and Lyptsi, opening a roughly 60 km front, halted by late May; later fighting shifted toward Kupiansk and Kursk.
Kupiansk offensive
Russian campaign since late 2023 to retake Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast, recaptured by Ukraine in September 2022; Russian forces reached the city center in October 2025 before Ukrainian forces largely retook it in December 2025.
Kursk campaign
The Kursk campaign, or Ukrainian invasion of Russia, began on 6 August 2024, when Ukrainian forces seized about 1,000 square kilometers around Sudzha in Kursk Oblast.
Liberation of Kherson
Liberation of Kherson: Ukraine's 11 November 2022 recapture of Kherson city, the only regional capital Russia took in 2022, after a summer-autumn counteroffensive and Russian withdrawal to the Dnipro's east bank.
List of Americans in the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The list of Americans in the Armed Forces of Ukraine covers U.S. citizens who enlisted, mostly in the International Legion, to fight Russia since 2022.
List of Russian generals killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Russian generals killed in the invasion of Ukraine: independent tallies (Mediazona 15, InformNapalm 16, The Insider 19) count confirmed deaths since February 2022, from front-line sniping to Moscow car bombings.
Little green men (Russo-Ukrainian War)
"Little green men" (later "polite people") were masked Russian soldiers in unmarked green uniforms who seized Crimea in February-March 2014, first denied and later acknowledged by Putin, enabling the peninsula's annexation.
Maria Lvova-Belova (Мария Алексеевна Львова-Белова)
Maria Lvova-Belova (Мария Алексеевна Львова-Белова), born 1984 in Penza, is Russia's Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights since 2021; the ICC issued an arrest warrant for her in March 2023 over deportation of Ukrainian children, and she rejects the charges.
Middle strike campaign
Middle strike campaign: Ukraine's systematic use of medium-range strike drones at 25–200 km operational depth against Russian air defense, command posts, and logistics, notably the R-280 supply corridor, beginning in earnest in April 2026.
Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian war
Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian war includes weapons, ammunition, equipment, training, and financing supplied by foreign governments and coordinated international initiatives. Following Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, the scale.
Murder of Yevgeny Nuzhin (Евгений Анатольевич Нужин)
Murder of Yevgeny Nuzhin (Евгений Анатольевич Нужин): November 2022 sledgehammer execution of a Wagner-recruited Russian convict who surrendered to Ukraine, shown in a Grey Zone Telegram video; Prigozhin denied involvement.
Nadiya Savchenko (Надія Вікторівна Савченко)
Nadiya Savchenko (born 1981) is a Ukrainian military officer and former lawmaker, held in Russia from 2014 until a 2016 prisoner exchange; she later returned to military service.
NAFO (group)
NAFO (North Atlantic Fella Organization) is a decentralized internet movement founded May 2022 by Kamil Dyszewski, whose Shiba Inu-avatar "fellas" mock Russian propaganda and fundraise for Ukraine.
North Korean involvement in the Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)
North Korea's military support for Russia in the Russo-Ukrainian war: 11,000–15,000 troops (11th Corps/Storm Corps) in Kursk from October 2024, millions of artillery shells and KN-23 missiles, the June 2024 mutual defense treaty, casualty estimates, and payments in oil, cash, and missile technology.
Novorossiya (Новороссия) (confederation)
Novorossiya (Новороссия), "New Russia": unrecognized confederation proclaimed May 2014 by the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (also Federal State of Novorossiya, Union of People's Republics, led by Oleh Tsaryov); existed on paper only, aimed at eight Ukrainian oblasts, and was abandoned by about 2015.
On conducting a special military operation
On conducting a special military operation: Putin's 24 February 2022 televised address announcing the invasion of Ukraine (специальная военная операция, СВО), its stated goals of demilitarization and denazification, its legal framing, and its aftermath.
Operation MoLoChKa
Operation MoLoChKa (Операція «МоЛоЧКа», acronym for 'Moscow will fall through Crimea') is Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces maritime drone campaign against Russia's shadow fleet, launched July 6, 2026 in the Sea of Azov and extended to the Black Sea on July 15.
Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Peace negotiations in Russia's invasion of Ukraine: diplomatic efforts since February 2022, from the Belarus and Istanbul talks and the 2022 neutrality drafts through Trump's 28-point plan and the 2026 diesel-deal ceasefire dispute.