The Euromaiden was a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest which began on Novemwhen Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych chose to suspend the signing of the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement in favour of maintaining closer ties with the Russian Federation. Pre-war events Euromaiden and the Ukrainian Revolution (2013-14) The war ended a few weeks later with South Ossetia and Abkhazia achieving de facto independence. In August 2008, the Russian military invaded the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Putin himself had stated that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a mistake. Once Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer, assumed the presidency following the retirement of Boris Yeltsin, the Russian Federation had slowly begun its recovery from economic turmoil the 1990's. Even after a treaty was signed with Yugoslavia, there was a short but tense standoff between Russian and NATO troops known as the Incident at Priština Airport which was resolved peacefully. NATO bombing during the Kosovo War in 1999 led to heightened tensions between the West and Russia. Under Boris Yeltsin, the Russian Federation gradually had become friendlier with the West. The Russian Federation and other former Soviet republics entered economic turmoil that lasted throughout the 1990's. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics broke apart by the end of 1991 which marked the end of the First Cold War.
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International borders changed throughout Eurasia
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North Korea also invaded South Korea and the Syrian Civil War had become a part of the global conflict. The war started off with a Russian military invasion of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, followed by a full-scale invasion of Eastern Europe. World War III (often abbreviated to WWIII or WW3), also known as the Third World War and the Second Great Patriotic War (in Russia) was a global war that started on 28 September 2016 and ended on 25 April 2017 with a NATO victory.