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On 24 February 2022, Russia began a military invasion of Ukraine, in a major escalation of the conflict that had begun in 2014. Shortly before, on 21 February, Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine as independent.

On 1 March the European Parliament held an extraordinary plenary session in Brussels to assess Russia’s military assault on Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Speaker of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (parliament) Ruslan Stefanchuk spoke live from Kiev. The European Parliament President Roberta Metsola was in Kyiv on 1 April to express the European Union´s support of the Ukrainian people and to condemn the Russian attack. She travelled on the invitation of Ruslan Stefanchuk. On 8 June Stefanchuk adressed Parliament in the Strasbourg hemicycle.

Since the beginning of the invasion, the EU has adopted several packages of restrictive measures to Russia’s military attack against Ukraine. Sanctions include targeted restrictive measures (individual sanctions), economic sanctions and diplomatic measures.

On 21 September President Putin announced a partial mobilisation of reservists for the military operation in Ukraine. On 30 of September, after referendums on occupied UKrainian territories-viewed as illegal by international community - Putin announced seizure of 4 regions. Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia have been declared being part of Russian territory. In response to this Ukraine’s president declared that his country was submitting an “accelerated” application to join the NATO military alliance.

Event date	23/03/2022
Reference:	EP-128242C
Photographer:	Emilie GOMEZ
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EP Plenary session - Need for an urgent EU Action Plan to ensure Food Security inside and outside the EU in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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