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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-says-moscow-has-deal-with-belarus-station-nuclear-weapons-there-tass-2023-03-25/

https://apnews.com/article/russia-belarus-nuclear-weapons-2d9584534da25c00c56dbf7b14694e0e

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-belarus-tactical-nuclear-weapons-3aed32661ae3c218c59117d1ce593777

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-security-chief-says-basing-russian-nuclear-weapons-belarus-will-2023-03-26/

Note this 2023 Nuclear Weapons Deal Between Belarus and Russia in question escalates fear of a Nuclear War happening in Ukraine. Also Nato and Ukraine Condemn the deal in question.2601:640:C682:8870:8BCF:AA77:4645:9A52 (talk) 16:49, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This is better suited for the Russia-Belarus relations article. X750. Spin a yarn? _{Articles I've screwed over?} 19:46, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"De facto state of war" is not since 2022, it is since 1993, the first post-Soviet Crimean crisis. Before 2014 there were at least two Crimean crisis and in 2014 the Russian President came out with idea about a joke story of drunken Nikita Khruschev. Direct hostilities with military use against the Ukrainian Armed Forces and territory of Ukraine started in 2014. In 1997-2014 there also existed so called "Great Friendship Treaty" which Russian broke unilaterally. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 08:57, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Updated. De jure international armed conflict since February 2014. Needs references.  —Michael Z. 13:44, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The map shown at the start of this article should show annexed and disputed territories in a proper way, as is done in the articles of "Russia" and "Ukraine". Using a map of the region as interpreted by the Ukrainian gouvernment, as is currently the case, is not an objective way of presenting information. Schutsheer des Vaderlands (talk) 15:12, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It’s also the way the two countries are interpreted by the United Nations and pretty much every reference giving locator maps of them, so it’s arguably more objective. See for example Britannica,[1][2] the World Factbook,[3][4] etcetera.

This article’s text and its locator map represent the consensus global and academic view throughout the 31-year immediate history and the previous history into the past, and not the latest whim of the Kremlin represented in its propaganda promoting the illegal and aspirational Russian imperial POV after March 2014, September 2022, or any other period.  —Michael Z. 16:51, 10 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

With this edit the claim that Russia had lists targeting "Ukrainian teachers, journalists, scientists, writers, priests, politicians" was removed as WP:EXCEPTIONAL. The following book has 6 pages on these targeting lists (though it's called "hit lists" not "execution lists"):

The FSB had lists of potential enemies—local politicians, pro-Ukrainian activists and military veterans—that it drew up before the occupation. […] The FSB assumed that the Ukrainians would mount an armed resistance behind the lines, as indeed did happen, so the most important list comprised people who had been in the armed forces, in particular those who had fought in what Ukraine termed the ‘Anti-Terrorist Operation’ (ATO) in Donbas since 2014. […] A second, much broader category in Russia’s hit lists targeted anybody considered to be a potential political opponent. These FSB lists included journalists, civil society activists, local officials, priests and other religious leaders—anybody with authority who was likely to challenge the occupiers. […] The Russians also targeted many religious leaders. […] A third group targeted by the Russians were Ukrainian government officials.^[1]

--Jo1971 (talk) 20:48, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Countries which break off direct diplomatic relations with each other are supposed to nominate protecting powers. None of Wikipedia's articles say which countries have been used between Russia and Ukraine since 2022. Robin S. Taylor (talk) 14:21, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]