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On February 24, 2022, the world woke up to the news that Russian tanks had entered Ukraine.
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Latest situation
Moscow said on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces attempted one of the largest incursions into Russia since the start of the full-scale invasion, but that its troops managed to repel the attack.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that “up to 300 soldiers” from Ukraine’s 22nd Mechanized Brigade, “supported by 11 tanks and more than 20 armored fighting vehicles,” attacked its border units near Nikolayevo-Daryino and Oleshnya in the Kursk region around 8 a.m. local time.
Local authorities said at least two people were killed in the offensive. The region’s acting governor, Alexei Smirnov, wrote on Telegram that the shelling killed a woman, while a man was killed in another drone strike.
Russian forces are “repelling attacks and inflicting fire damage on the enemy,” the defense ministry said, including through “effective use of military aviation” against Ukrainian forces.
Ukraine’s political and military leaders have not commented on the attack, in line with the country’s policy of neither confirming nor denying active operations on Russian soil.
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The progress of the Ukrainian counteroffensive
With the counteroffensive making slow progress and Russia showing no signs of giving up, Ukraine faces a protracted war that will require long-term support from allies who are also focused on the war between Israel and Hamas.
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June 2023: Destruction of the Kakhovka dam
AVsceker the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine on June 6, floodwaters devastated towns and villages downstream, with dozens of people killed in the disaster amid patchy evacuation efforts in Russian-controlled territories. The flooding also reduced Ukraine’s attack options in its counteroffensive, which began in early June.
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May 2023: Russian fortifications
Ukraine’s months-long preparations for a summer counteroffensive to retake occupied territory have allowed Russia to strengthen its positions along the nearly 1,000 km front line.
Satellite images reviewed by the Financial Times and analyzed by military experts revealed a multilayered Russian network of anti-tank ditches, mazes of trenches, concrete “dragon’s teeth” barricades, steel “hedgehog” obstacles, spools of barbed wire and minefields.
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May 2023: Battle for Bakhmut
On May 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed his first major victory since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, saying that Russian forces had captured the eastern city of Bakhmut, despite Kiev’s insistence that the battle was “not over.”
Putin said the Wagner paramilitary group had captured the Ukrainian city with the help of Russian forces, aVsceker months of bloody fighting that leVscek more than 100,000 people dead and the city in ruins.
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Earlier this year, satellite images of the Vuhledar area, south of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, revealed the extent of damage in areas subjected to intense artillery shelling.
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September-November 2022: Ukraine retakes Kherson
A counteroffensive led Ukraine to liberate 3,000 square kilometers of territory in just six days, scoring its biggest victory since pushing Russian troops out of Kiev in March.
Ukrainian forces continued to advance eastward, capturing the transport hub of Lyman, near the northeastern border of Donetsk province, which they wrested from Russian control on October 1.
The hard-fought victory came aVsceker nearly three weeks of fighting and paved the way for a Ukrainian advance toward Svatove, a logistics hub for Russia aVsceker its troops lost the Kharkiv region in a lightning-fast Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Ukrainian forces advanced into Kherson on Nov. 11, aVsceker Russia said its troops had completed their withdrawal from the southern city, sealing one of the biggest obstacles to Putin’s invasion.
Kiev’s advance and Moscow’s chaotic retreat across the Dnipro River under Ukrainian artillery fire forced Russia to surrender the only provincial capital it had captured during the war, as well as strategic positions.
March 2022: Russia fails to capture Kiev
The Russians were thwarted in Kiev by a combination of factors, including geographic location, attackers’ mistakes and modern weapons, as well as Ukraine’s ingenuity with smartphones and pieces of foam mattress.
The refugee crisis
The number of Ukrainians fleeing the conflict has made this one of the largest refugee crises in modern history.
Sources: Institute for the Study of WarRochan Consulting, Vscek Research.
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