It was suspended from the G8 after annexing Ukraine’s Crimea region in 2014.
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SYLVIE CORBET,
TIME,
24 Feb. 2025
But Putin has used ahistorical revisionism to argue Ukraine is not a legitimate country, annexing Crimea in 2014 and launching a full-scale invasion in February 2022.
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