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On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which had started in 2014.The invasion, the largest and deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II, [15] [16] [17] has caused hundreds of thousands of military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties.
Russian forces captured the village of Novovasylivka in Donetsk Oblast. [109] Russian forces also claimed to have taken the village of Zapadne, four kilometers west of the Oskil River in Kharkiv Oblast. [110] Russian authorities ordered the evacuation of residents from the border village of Terezovka in Belgorod Oblast amid Ukrainian attacks. [111]
Animated map of Russia's invasion of Ukraine through 5 December 2022 (click to play animation) Ukrainian soldiers killed in the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2022. The Russian invasion of Ukraine began on the morning of 24 February 2022, [229] when Putin announced a "special military operation" to "demilitarise and denazify" Ukraine.
Timeline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (12 November 2022 – 7 June 2023) Timeline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (8 June 2023 – 31 August 2023) Timeline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (1 September – 30 November 2023) Timeline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (1 December 2023 – 31 March 2024) Timeline of the Russian ...
A former SBU agent who defected to Russia shortly before the 2022 invasion was injured in a car bombing in Moscow. [97] Russia and Ukraine conducted an exchange of war dead, with 99 Ukrainians being exchanged for 23 Russians. [98]
In 2021, a spike in ceasefire violations in the east and a Russian troop concentration near Ukraine fuelled fears that a new war was about to erupt but tensions abated when Moscow pulled back the ...
Ukraine announced that it would boycott UEFA football matches involving Russian teams after the body decided to lift the ban on Russian youth teams that had been imposed following the invasion. [228] Poland, Latvia , Lithuania , England , Northern Ireland , Denmark , and Sweden also announced that it would join Ukraine in its boycott.
Russo-Ukrainian War – ongoing international conflict between Russia, alongside Russian-backed separatists, and Ukraine, which began in February 2014. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity , Russia annexed Ukrainian Crimea and supported pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas war.