The U.N. Security Council is to be summoned for the second time in just two days.

The Russian Federation Council, the upper house of the Federal Assembly, approves the annexation of Crimea.
2014-03-21

Transnistria formally requests to join the Russian Federation.
2014-03-18

United States Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov meet in London, United Kingdom, to discuss the current Crimean crisis.
2014-03-14

Leaders in the Ukrainian Kherson Oblast threaten to shut off all power and water to Crimea if the referendum goes forward.
2014-03-13

Armed men – thought to be Russian – attempt to seize a Ukrainian military base in Sevastopol, withdrawing soon afterwards.
2014-03-7

President Barack Obama signs an executive order placing sanctions and visa bans on people that contributed to the current crisis in Crimea.
2014-03-6

The European Union freezes the assets of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich, two of his sons, and dozens of his advisers.
2014-03-6

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a press conference, saying that “force isn’t needed right now” after deploying roughly 16,000 troops to Crimea.
2014-03-4

Ukraine's Navy commander-in-chief, Denis Berezovsky who was appointed only March 1, defects to the Russia-backed Crimea government.
2014-03-2

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2014 Crimean crisis

The U.N. Security Council is to be summoned for the second time in just two days.

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