The conflict in Ukraine did not begin on February 24, 2022 with the start of Putin’s so-called “special military operation,” but in 2014 with the Maidan coup against the country’s then democratically-elected government in Kiev.

On 10 March 2022, a Tupolev Tu-141 reconnaissance drone crashed in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, which Zagreb, under US tutelage, blames on Russia.