Timeline Archives

Russia fights possible Ukrainian NATO Membership
NATO summit with intense debate about extending a Membership Action Plan (MAP) to Ukraine. President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin makes his opposition to Ukrainian membership known. NATO does not offer Ukraine a MAP.

Self-proclamation of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics-DNR/LNR

Pro-Russian paramilitary forces with the clandestine military support from Russia take control of the Eastern regions of Donbass and proclaim their independence from Ukraine.

Government of Canada amends the Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations (“the Regulations”)

Volodymyr Zelensky is elected as the new president of Ukraine

6 August
Canada further amends the Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations

1 December:
Referendum on Ukrainian independence from the Soviet-Union
83.9% of the voters in Donetsk supported Ukrainian Independence, as well as 83.6% of the voters in Luhansk.

8 December:
Belovezh Accords
This treaty, signed by the leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, brought about the end of the Soviet-Union. A new organization, the Commonwealth of Independent States was formed.

21 December:
Alma Ata Protocols
Signed by 11 countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan), recognizing and respecting each other’s integrity and inviolability of existing borders.

5 December: Budapest memorandum
Following negotiations involving the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, the USA and Great Britain, Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity was assured. In exchange, Ukraine relinquished all of its nuclear warheads to Russia for decommissioning and joined the NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) as a non-nuclear state.