--- title: Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine», a lesson of the politics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: On 24 February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, sending soldiers, tanks and planes across the border, as wi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/24-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine # Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine Lesson 24 of the politics course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/politics/24-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/24-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/0/) — On 24 February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, sending soldiers, tanks and planes across the border, as widely reported around the world. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/24-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/1/) — Millions of Ukrainians had to flee their homes. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/24-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/2/) — Most countries and the UN General Assembly called it an invasion that broke the rules countries agreed to live by, and asked Russia to withdraw. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/24-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/4/) — Think of a playground: whatever else two children argue about, who crossed into the other's space is a fact you can check. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/24-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/5/) — Here the widely reported fact is that Russia's army crossed into Ukraine; the big arguments are about how the war should end. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/24-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/6/) — In one place it started earlier: in 2014 Russian forces took control of Crimea, and most of the world, in a UN vote, said Crimea is still part of Ukraine. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/24-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/8/) — On 24 February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as widely reported, and millions of Ukrainians fled their homes. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/24-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/10/) — On 2 March 2022 the UN General Assembly called on Russia to withdraw its troops: 141 countries voted yes, 5 voted no and 35 abstained, which means they chose not to vote yes or no, news reports said. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/24-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/11/) — In 2014 Russian forces took control of Crimea and Russia said it had joined Russia after a vote; most countries and a UN General Assembly vote said Crimea is still part of Ukraine. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/24-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/12/) — During the war Ukrainian cities have often been hit by missiles and drones, and people use sirens and alarm apps to go to shelters such as basements and metro stations, it was reported. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/24-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/13/) — Attacks on power stations caused power cuts in Ukrainian winters, news reports said. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/24-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/15/) — Kyiv is the spelling that comes from Ukrainian and Kiev the older one from Russian; most big news organisations now use Kyiv. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/24-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/16/) — Ukraine's Kalush Orchestra won Eurovision in 2022 with a huge public vote; Russia was banned from that contest, and the 2023 contest was held in Liverpool on Ukraine's behalf. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/24-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/17/) — Russia sold a lot of gas and oil, especially to Europe, and after the invasion prices of gas, fuel and some foods such as wheat jumped, news reports said; Ukraine is a big grower of wheat and sunflowers. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/24-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/18/) — In spring 2022 Russian forces were pushed back from around Kyiv, later Ukraine took back other areas, and since then the front line has moved slowly. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/24-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/20/) — People argue about how to end the war: some say make a deal quickly even if Ukraine loses land; others say land taken by force must not be rewarded. - ← previous: [Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/) - next →: [Ukraine: refugees, aid, sanctions and children's lives](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/25-ukraine-refugees-aid-sanctions-and-childrens-lives/) - ↑ back to [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/)