Immediately after the crash Catastrophe , a post appeared Coming_to_be on the VKontakte social media profile attributed Causation to Igor Girkin , leader of the Donbass separatist militia , claiming Statement responsibility for shooting down Use_firearm a Ukrainian An-26 military transporter near Torez .

Russian news agency TASS also reported Reporting eyewitness accounts claiming Statement that the Donbass militia had just shot down Use_firearm a Ukrainian An-26 military plane with a missile .

Nemtsov 's Ukrainian partner Anna Duritskaya survived the attack Attack as its sole eyewitness .

It was played Competition at the National Stadium in Warsaw , Poland , on 27 May 2015 , between Ukrainian side Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and the title holders , Spanish side Sevilla .

Operation Vistula ( ) was a codename for the 1947 forced resettlement of the Ukrainian minority as well as Boykos and Lemkos from the south-eastern provinces of post-war Poland , to the Recovered Territories in the west of the country .

The action was carried out Action by the Soviet-installed Polish communist authorities with the aim of removing material support and assistance to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army .

The Ukrainian Insurgent Army continued its guerilla activities until 1947 in both Subcarpathian and Lublin Voivodeships with no hope for any peaceful resolution .

Some Polish and Ukrainian politicians as well as historians condemned Judgment_communication the operation following the 1989 fall of communism in Eastern Europe , and described Statement it as ethnic cleansing .

At exactly the same time the Soviet Union carried out Action a parallel operation , dubbed Name_conferral `` Operation West '' , in the Ukrainian SSR by the Soviet Union at exactly the same time .

Aeroflot Flight 8381 was a scheduled flight of a twin-engine Tupolev Tu-134 that departed Departing Tallinn Airport in Estonian SSR , Soviet Union , at 10:38 am on 3 May 1985 , for Chişinău in Moldavian SSR , Soviet Union making a stopover Temporary_stay at Lviv , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union .

Both aircraft lost Earnings_and_losses their right wings and tails , went out of control Control and crashed Catastrophe about one or two minutes later near the village of Zolochiv , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union , killing Killing all 94 people on both aircraft .

The protests were sparked Causation by the Ukrainian government 's decision to suspend Change_event_time the signing Sign_agreement of an association agreement with the European Union , instead choosing Choosing closer ties to Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union .

The protests Attack led to Causation the 2014 Ukrainian revolution Change_of_leadership .

Protests and clashes increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale in January , after the Ukrainian parliament passed a group of anti-protest laws .

The Polish–Soviet War Hostile_encounter ( 14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921 ) was fought Hostile_encounter by the Second Polish Republic , the Ukrainian People 's Republic and the proto-Soviet Union ( Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine ) over a region comparable to today 's westernmost Ukraine and parts of modern Belarus .

The West Ukrainian People 's Republic , led by Yevhen Petrushevych , had tried to create Creating a Ukrainian state on territories to which both Poles and Ukrainians laid claim .

The West Ukrainian People 's Republic , led by Yevhen Petrushevych , had tried to create Creating a Ukrainian state on territories to which both Poles and Ukrainians laid claim .

In the Russian part of Ukraine Symon Petliura tried to defend Defending and strengthen Cause_change_of_strength the Ukrainian People 's Republic but as the Bolsheviks began Process_start to win the Russian Civil War , they started Process_start to advance Cause_to_make_progress westward towards the disputed Ukrainian territories , causing Causation Petliura 's forces to retreat Escaping to Podolia .

In the Russian part of Ukraine Symon Petliura tried to defend Defending and strengthen Cause_change_of_strength the Ukrainian People 's Republic but as the Bolsheviks began Process_start to win the Russian Civil War , they started Process_start to advance Cause_to_make_progress westward towards the disputed Ukrainian territories , causing Causation Petliura 's forces to retreat Escaping to Podolia .

Military historian David Glantz claims Statement the battle resulted from a Stavka order to the forces of the 2nd & 3rd Ukrainian Fronts to commence a coordinated invasion of Romania .

For example , the four volume `` Great Patriotic War '' ( 1998 ) prepared GetReady for the Russian Federation states : Thus , during the Târgu-Frumos operation , the 2nd Ukrainian Front 's forces tried unsuccessfully to complete a deep penetration of the enemy 's defense and reach the territory between the Prut & Seret Rivers .

The several attempts by the 3rd Ukrainian Front 's armies to conduct attacks from their Dnestr bridgeheads & seize new bridgeheads also led to Causation nothing .

According to accounts by Hasso von Manteuffel , one of the two German division commanders , and Ferdinand Maria von Senger und Etterlin the German forces defeated Conquering a Soviet offensive by the 2nd Ukrainian Front that was expected to be a precursor of a much larger offensive in Northern Ukraine .