annexation
Example Sentences
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Latvia and Sweden also recently restarted military service and Lithuania brought it back after Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014.
From BBC
It is part of a dramatic transformation of Russia’s education system that gained pace after the Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 but was supercharged by the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
They fled Austria after the Nazi annexation in 1938, entrusting the painting to a woman, who later moved to Hungary.
From Barron's
The obvious historical precedent is Russia's expulsion from what was then the G8 - a grouping of the world's most advanced economies - after the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
From BBC
They are demanding a vote on at least partial annexation of the occupied West Bank in return for what they see as the relinquishing of Gaza.
From Barron's
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