Ukraine: 12 years of one of the most important national liberation revolutions in the world
Ukrainian partisan in the trenches resisting Putin's invading army
The Marx International
During the first months of 2026, the capitalist mass media spoke of "four years of war in Ukraine," reducing the Ukrainian people's struggle to the large-scale invasion launched by Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2022. This perspective oversimplifies a much deeper and more prolonged historical process. In reality, it has been 12 years since the beginning of one of the most important revolutions of the 21st century: the Ukrainian national liberation revolution. This process began with the Independence Square mobilizations in February 2014 that overthrew the oligarchic government of Viktor Yanukovych, continued with the resistance against the annexation of Crimea in March 2014, the f...