On February 24 2022, the world woke up to news that Russian tanks had actually rolled into Ukraine.
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Ukraine stated it had actually shot down one Russian A-50 spy airplane and terribly harmed a 2nd Il-22 airplane over the Sea of Azov area, dealing a substantial blow to Moscow’s air power.
“The A-50 was shot down and it took off,” Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s chief of military intelligence, informed the Financial Times on Monday. “The Il-22 was severely harmed however, sadly for us, it handled to make an emergency situation landing in Anapa [a Russian town on the Black Sea coast]”
The strikes on the 2 command and control airplane represents a considerable increase to Ukraine’s counteroffensive as the advanced monitoring airplanes are essential to Russia’s co-ordination of ground operations.
“There are simply 8 A-50s in great condition,” Budanov stated, including that the airplane’s damage would most likely impact Russia’s capability to run and interact in the dispute zone “all the time”.
June-October 2023: Ukraine’s counteroffensive development
With sluggish development on its counteroffensive and Russia revealing no indication of stopping, Ukraine deals with a drawn-out war that will need long-lasting assistance from allies– who are likewise concentrated on the Israel-Hamas war
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June 2023: Destruction of Kakhovka dam
Following the damage of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine on June 6, floodwaters ravaged towns and towns downstream, with lots of individuals diing in the catastrophe amidst irregular evacuation efforts in Russian-controlled areas. The flood likewise narrowed Ukraine’s attack choices in its counteroffensive, which got under method in early June.
May 2023: Russian strongholds
Ukraine’s months-long preparation for its summer season counteroffensive to attempt to wrest back inhabited area enabled Russia to strengthen its positions along the nearly 1,000 km frontline.
Satellite images examined by the Financial Times and evaluated by military professionals exposed a multi-layered Russian network of anti-tank ditches, labyrinths of trenches, concrete “dragon’s teeth” barriers, steel “hedgehog” challenges, spindles of razor wire and minefields.
May 2023: Battle for Bakhmut
On May 21, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin hailed his very first significant success because the early days of the full-blown intrusion of Ukraine, declaring that Russian forces had actually caught the eastern city of Bakhmut, regardless of Kyiv firmly insisting the fight “was not over”.
Putin stated the Wagner paramilitary group had actually taken the Ukrainian city with aid from Russia’s militaries after months of bloody combating that had actually triggered more than 100,000 casualties and lowered the city to ruins.
Previously in the year, satellite images from the Vuhledar location, south of Bakhmut in the Donetsk area, exposed the degree of damage in locations that had actually suffered extreme weapons shelling.
September-November 2022: Ukraine retakes Kherson
A counteroffensive resulted in Ukraine liberating 3,000 sq km of area in simply 6 days, its greatest success because it pressed Russian soldiers back from Kyiv in March.
Ukraine’s forces continued to press east, recording the transportation center of Lymannear the north-eastern edge of the Donetsk province, which it battled from Russian control on October 1.
The hard-fought triumph followed almost 3 weeks of fight and set the phase for a Ukrainian advance towards Svatove, a logistics centre for Russia after its soldiers lost the Kharkiv area in the lightning Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Ukrainian forces advanced into Kherson on November 11 after Russia stated its forces had actually finished their withdrawal from the southern city, sealing among the greatest obstacles to Putin’s intrusion.
Kyiv’s development and Moscow’s disorderly retreat throughout the Dnipro river under Ukrainian weapons fire suggested Russia gave up the only provincial capital it had actually caught in the war, along with delivering tactical positions.
March 2022: Russia stops working to catch Kyiv
The Russians were prevented in Kyiv by a mix of elements, consisting of location, the opponents’ blundering and modern-day arms, along with Ukraine’s resourcefulness with mobile phones and pieces of foam mat
The refugee crisis
The variety of Ukrainians running away the dispute has actually made it among the biggest refugee crises in contemporary history.
Sources: Institute for the Study of WarRochan Consulting, feet research study
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Based upon reporting by Roman Olearchyk Christopher Miller Ben Hall Max Seddon John Paul Rathbone John Reed Guy Chazan Henry Foy Mehul Srivastava Polina Ivanova and Tim Judah