invasion
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Since the full-scale invasion, even more territory has been subjected to the same.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
He headed a unit conducting operations behind enemy lines in Chernobyl after Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, and participated in many battles in eastern Ukraine, according to his official biography.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Concerts by Western acts were not uncommon before Russia's invasion of Ukraine - with artists like Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lana Del Rey, Muse and System of a Down visiting the country.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Responding to the Schenectady massacre, forces raised in New York and New England staged an invasion of New France in the following summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
His code name for the invasion was “Operation Barbarossa,” after the great twelfth-century tactician and emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who unified many European kingdoms under German rule as leader of the Holy Roman Empire.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
Since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion in 2022, following his covert invasions of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and eastern regions in 2014, Russian forces have captured roughly 12% of Ukraine’s territory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Kagan insists that the Fourth Amendment cannot be defeated by slicing invasions of privacy into pieces small enough to appear constitutionally insignificant.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
Near the start of that period the Greeks saw the Persians, rulers of a vast empire, overreach themselves and fail in two invasions of Europe, the second time catastrophically.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
Their designs also opened a window into the colonial invasions of India between the 16th and 19th Centuries by the Dutch, Portuguese, French and the British.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
Kamehameha thereupon prepared invasions of the last independent Hawaiian island, Kauai, whose chief finally reached a negotiated settlement with him, completing the archipelago’s unification.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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