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2月22至23日，俄羅斯總統[[普京]]連夜召開國安會議，與[[聯邦安全局]]的一眾部長商討解救被廢黜的烏克蘭總統[[亞努科維奇]]，會議結束時普京說：「我們一定要開始設法讓克里米亞回歸俄羅斯。」<ref>在俄罗斯方面制作的[[宣传]]影片《[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t42-71RpRgI 克里米亞回家之路] 》中有詳細說明</ref><ref>俄羅斯國營電視台「克里米亞回家之路」紀錄片簡介https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1165795/Vladimir-Putin-admits-plot-Russia-annex-Crimea.html </ref>。2月27日，[[小綠人 (格魯烏)|沒有徽章的俄羅斯蒙面部隊]]<ref name=FT15Mar15 /> 佔領了[[克里米亞最高議會]]<ref name=time1>{{cite news|url=http://time.com/19097/putin-crimea-russia-ukraine-aksyonov/|work=Time|title=Putin's Man in Crimea Is Ukraine's Worst Nightmare|author=Simon Shuster|date=2014-03-10|accessdate=2015-03-08|quote="Before dawn on Feb. 27, at least two dozen heavily armed men stormed the Crimean parliament building and the nearby headquarters of the regional government, bringing with them a cache of assault rifles and rocket propelled grenades. A few hours later, Aksyonov walked into the parliament and, after a brief round of talks with the gunmen, began to gather a quorum of the chamber's lawmakers."|archive-date=2014-09-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911014517/http://time.com/19097/putin-crimea-russia-ukraine-aksyonov/|dead-url=no}}</ref><ref name=reuters1>{{cite news|author=Alissa de Carbonnel|title=How the separatists delivered Crimea to Moscow|url=http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/03/13/ukraine-crisis-russia-aksyonov-idINL6N0M93AH20140313|agency=Reuters|date=2014-03-13|accessdate=2015-03-08|quote=Only a week after gunmen planted the Russian flag on the local parliament, Aksyonov and his allies held another vote and declared parliament was appealing to Putin to annex Crimea|archive-date=2015-06-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626101233/http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/03/13/ukraine-crisis-russia-aksyonov-idINL6N0M93AH20140313|dead-url=no}}</ref>，並奪下克里米亞全境的戰略重地，接着成立親俄羅斯的[[謝爾蓋·阿克肖諾夫|阿克肖諾夫]]政府、宣佈{{Link-en|克里米亞共和國獨立宣言|Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Crimea|克里米亞獨立}}和舉行一場有爭議的[[2014年克里米亞歸屬公投|公投]]<ref name="zakon">{{cite web|url=http://zakon4.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/891-18|script-title=uk:Про дострокове припинення повноважень Верховної Ради Автономної Республіки Крим|trans-title=On the dissolution of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea|language=uk|work=Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine|date=2014-03-15|accessdate=2015-09-04|archive-date=2017-12-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210200951/http://zakon4.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/891-18|dead-url=no}}</ref>。在此过程中，俄普京政府宣称“无意吞并克里米亚”<ref>{{Cite web |title=普京：俄无意吞并克里米亚 最近3天不放一枪 |url=https://www.huanqiu.com/article/9CaKrnJEsXX |website=环球网 |language=zh-CN |access-date=2022-10-12 |archive-date=2022-10-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008142344/https://www.huanqiu.com/article/9CaKrnJEsXX |dead-url=no }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=普京无意吞并克里米亚 下令招回部队 |url=http://cnnews.chosun.com/client/news/viw.asp?cate=&mcate=&nNewsNumb=20140338737&nidx= |website=朝鮮日報中文版 |language=ko |access-date=2022-10-12 |archive-date=2022-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012200957/http://cnnews.chosun.com/client/news/viw.asp?cate=&mcate=&nNewsNumb=20140338737&nidx= |dead-url=no }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=鲁斯兰·普霍夫 |date=2014-03-08 |title=普京对克里米亚没有领土野心 |url=https://cn.nytimes.com/opinion/20140308/c08pukhov/ |website=纽约时报中文网 |language=zh-hans |access-date=2022-10-12 |archive-date=2022-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013104935/https://cn.nytimes.com/opinion/20140308/c08pukhov/ |dead-url=no }}</ref>，“已下令俄军撤离”<ref name=":0" />。