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The Russia-Ukraine War Quiz
Ten questions on the war between Russia and Ukraine, from the nuclear bargain of 1994 and the Maidan protests to the invasion of 2022 and the fight for the Black Sea.
- 10 questions
- About 3 minutes
- Medium
- Includes a map and a photo
About this quiz
The quiz covers the war's long road and its full-scale phase: the Budapest Memorandum, the Maidan protests, the seizure of Crimea, the downing of MH17, the rise of Volodymyr Zelensky, the first days of the invasion, HIMARS, the Wagner Group, Ukraine's push into Kursk and the war in the Black Sea.
It suits readers who have followed the headlines since 2022 and want the longer story. Several questions set what leaders claimed at the time against what came out later.
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Encyclopedia
Euromaidan Revolution
The winter 2013-14 uprising in Kyiv that toppled Ukraine's pro-Russian president and set the country on a collision course with Moscow.
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Encyclopedia
Annexation of Crimea
Russia's swift, near-bloodless 2014 seizure of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, the first forcible annexation of European territory since 1945 and the opening move of the war.
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Blog
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The USSR had 30,000 nuclear weapons and the world's second-largest army. Within three months it dissolved without a war. Here is how a superpower talked itself out of existence.
