![]() McMaster, a former national security adviser, said on "CBS Mornings" following the invasion that Putin was trying to "restore Russia to national greatness." Russia's strongman leader speaks often of the ethnic ties between Russia and Ukraine and warns against NATO expanding further eastward toward his borders. Now, as Ukraine's ambassador to the U.N. told CBS News correspondent Pamela Falk, Putin's ambition to "restore the Russian Empire" has moved beyond the annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, which his forces seized in 2014. ![]() and its allies imposing new sanctions on Russia. Three days before his latest invasion, Putin unilaterally recognized the independence of two breakaway regions in Donbas - the self-declared "People's Republics" of Donetsk and Luhansk. ![]() A 2015 peace deal largely ended major battles but the fighting continued, leaving more than 14,000 people dead in the process, according to the Ukrainian government. Since 2014, a proxy war had simmered in Donbas between the Russian-backed separatist forces and the Ukrainian government. The annexation is not recognized by the international community, but Russia has indisputably controlled the territory since 2014. But Putin used the invasion to claim part of Ukraine for Russia, unilaterally annexing the Crimean Peninsula. ![]()
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