Swell:
AFP; American Department of Defense; ap; Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia; British Ministry of Defence; Federal Agency for Civic Education; Budapest Memorandum; German Society for Foreign Policy eV; dpa; Epifanova, Occupations of Public Buildings in Eastern Ukraine, Eastern Europe 2014; European Commission; European Union; Council of Europe; Fischer, Escalation of the Ukraine Crisis: Contradictory Interpretations Complicate International Diplomacy, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, 2014; Kremlin 2014; State Center for Civic Education Baden-Württemberg; Lithuanian Ministry of Defence; Luchterhandt, Crimea’s annexation to Russia from the perspective of international law, Archiv des Völkerrechts, 2014; Malek, Moscow’s Battle Plans: Background to Russia’s War in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, 2014; Marxsen, The Crimea Crisis – An International Law Perspective, Heidelberg Journal of International Law, 2014; Nato; Netherlands Public Prosecution Service; OSCE; Onuch, The Maidan and Beyond: Who Were the Protesters?, Journal of Democracy, 2014; Pradetto, Ukraine, Russia and the West: The Staging of a Crisis as a Geopolitical Conflict, in The Ukraine Conflict, Russia and the European Security Order, 2017; Reuters; Rochan Consulting; Russia Founding Act; Sapper & Weichsel, Escalation Dynamics, Eastern Europe, 2014; Simon, State Crisis in Ukraine: From Citizens’ Protest for Europe to Revolution, Eastern Europe, 2014; United Nations; Vladimir Putin, 2014; Center for Eastern Europe and International Studies Berlin; Ministry of Defense of Russia; Ukrainian authorities; German Embassy Kiev

Photos:
Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin; epa/Sergey Dolzhenko, dpa/Tim Brakemeier; ap/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr.; epa / Alexey Furman; epa/anp/ Fred Neeleman; tass/Zurab Dzhavakhadze; ap/ Vadim Ghirda; dpa / Thibault Camus; dpa; AFP/Saul Loeb; Reuters/Sputnik; ap/Lisa Leutner; dpa/Roland Balik; A.Riedl; epa/Carsten Koall; Pierre Crom/Getty Images; reuters/stringer; AP/Alexei Nikolsky; AP/Mikhail Klimentyev; dpa / Andriy Dubchak

Cards:
Ukrainian authorities; dpa (Rochan Consulting, Belarusian Ministry of Defense); Rochan Consulting; Federal Agency for Civic Education, 2017; Bruckmüller Prof. Dr., Ernst et al. (2001): Putzger – Historical World Atlas: 103rd Edition. Cornelsen Verlag, Berlin; Manfred Hergt, Hermann Kinder, Werner Hilgemann (2020): dtv atlas world history. Volume 2: From the French Revolution to the Present. 45th edition. dtv, Munich 2020; Nato

Editorial staff:
Jennifer Werner, Kevin Schubert

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Authors:
Sebastian Specht, Andreas Goebbel

Design:
Jens Albrecht

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