Wars involving Russia

The Syrian Civil War was an armed conflict that began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring. The Assad regime responded to the protests with lethal force, which led to a series of defections, the emergence of armed opposition groups, and the civilian uprising descending into a civil war. The war lasted almost 14 years and culminated in the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. Many sources regard this as the end of the civil war even though clashes have continued into 2026.

The Russo-Ukrainian war began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied Crimea and annexed it from Ukraine. It then supported Russian separatist armed groups who started a war in the eastern Donbas region against Ukraine's military. In 2018, Ukraine declared the region to be occupied by Russia. The first eight years of conflict also involved naval incidents and cyberwarfare. In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and began occupying more of the country, starting the current phase of the war, the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II. The war has resulted in a refugee crisis and hundreds of thousands of deaths.

2008 Russian invasion of Georgia

war fought from 1994 to 1996 in Chechnya

military campaign started after September 11 attacks

war in Chechnya

1990–1992 conflict between Moldova and Russian-backed self-proclaimed Transnistria

armed conflicts that started from January 2012

1992–1997 civil war in Tajikistan

war in Abkhazia from 1992 to 1993

Russian military operation beginning in September 2015

conflict between the government of the Central African Republic and rebels

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1991-1993 civil war

1990–present conflict between Moldova and its separatist region of Transnistria

1992 war between ethnic Ossetes and Ingush

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