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It began as a dispute over a trade agreement, but it's mushroomed into the bloodiest conflict in Europe since the wars over the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.

As world leaders scramble to put a stop to the civil war in eastern Ukraine, explore the days that have defined the conflict since violence first broke out in November 2013.

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