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The Russian defense ministry claimed to have shot down eight US-made ATACMS missiles and 72 UAVs launched by Ukraine in Russian territory, with some drones being shot down in Leningrad and Kursk Oblasts. [15] Russian forces claimed to have captured the town of Vodiane Druhe, east of Pokrovsk. [5]
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.
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.
11 November – The United States reports an unusual movement of Russian troops near the borders of Ukraine. [2] By 20 November 2021, Ukraine had reported a build-up of 92,000 Russian troops. [3] 7 December – US President Joe Biden warns President of Russia Vladimir Putin of "strong economic and other measures" if Russia attacks Ukraine. [2]
* Feb. 24: Russia invades Ukraine from three fronts in the biggest assault on a European state since World War Two. TIMELINE-Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters 100th day on Friday Skip to main ...
LONDON/KYIV (Reuters) -In the hours before Ukrainian soldiers stormed across Russia's western border, there was no sign from Moscow that anything was amiss. At midnight at the start of Aug. 6, the ...
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.
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 ...