2.2.Euromaidan
In this chapter Euromaidan is having the most important role, because annextion started from here. I would like to relize some facts about it. The Euromaidan protest movement began in Kiev in late November 2013 after President Viktor Yanukovych, from the Party of Regions, suspended the signing of the Ukraine-European Union Association Agreement. Yanukovych won the 2010 presidential election with strong support from voters in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and southern and eastern Ukraine. The Crimean Autonomous Government strongly supported Yanukovych and condemned the protests, saying they were "threatening political stability in the country." The Crimean Autonomous Parliament said it supported the government's decision "to suspend negotiations on the association agreement pending, and called on Crimeans to" strengthen friendly ties with Russian regions. "On 4 February 2014, the Presidium of the Supreme Council considered the possibility of holding a referendum on the status of the peninsula and asked the Russian government to guarantee a vote. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in response to the opening of a criminal case to investigate a possible "subversive" territorial integrity of Ukraine. On February 20, 2014, during a visit to Moscow, the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Crimea, Vladimir Konstantinov, stated that the 1954 transfer of Crimea from the Russian Soviet Federative SocialistRepublic to the Ukrainian SSR was a mistake.5
CHAPTER 3. SPOTLIGHTS OF THE CONFLICT AND THE OPPONENTS FORCES ................ 17
CHAPTER 4. CONFLICT TIMING .................... 33
CHAPTER 5. CONSEQUENCES OF THE CONFLICT FOR THE BOTH SIDES ..................... 40
5.1 Economic consequences ..................... 40
5.2 International reaction and its affection on relationshios. 43
CHAPTER 5. CONSEQUENCES OF THE CONFLICT FOR THE BOTH SIDES
5.1.Economic consequences
The armed conflict in eastern Ukraine led to the death of thousands of civilians, destruction of civil infrastructure and life support systems of settlements, a decline in living standards of the population, a huge flow of refugees and internally displaced persons, widespread violations of basic human rights.
According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), as of early April 2015, the total number of Ukrainians who fled abroad in search of asylum or other forms of legal stay reached 777 thousand people. Most of them are located in Russia.
According to the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine, as of February 5, 2019, the number of internally displaced persons registered since the beginning of the armed conflict in 2014 was 1,361,912.
According to the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, prepared on the basis of the work of the UN monitoring mission, from April 14, 2014 to February 15, 2019, at least 3,023 civilians were killed in the Donbas, and taking into account the crash of the MH17 plane of Malaysian Airlines the total number of civilian deaths associat