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Sep 28, 2023 · Although both sides have launched ambitious offensives, the front line has barely shifted. After 18 months of war, a breakthrough looks more difficult than ever.
- Josh Holder
Jun 9, 2023 · Here’s where Ukraine has mounted multiple attacks this week in the apparent beginning of its long-planned counteroffensive.
Aug 19, 2022 · This interactive time-lapse complements static control-of-terrain maps that ISW produces by showing a dynamic frontline.
Supporting effort southern axis — Russian objective to defend Kherson and Zaporizhzhia against Ukrainian counterattacks. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began on Thursday with attacks by land ...
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Russia launched a wave of missiles targeting Kharkivand nearby cities in the north east of Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least seven people and destroying civilian infrastructure. Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city with more than 1.3mn residents, has come under increasing Russian aerial assaults since Moscow opened a new front to the north of...
June 2023: Destruction of Kakhovka dam
Following the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine on June 6, floodwaters devastated towns and villages downstream, with dozens of people perishing in the disaster amid patchy evacuation efforts in Russian-controlled territories. The flood also narrowed Ukraine’s attack options in its counteroffensive, which got under way in early June.
May 2023: Russian fortifications
Ukraine’s months-long preparation for its summer counteroffensive to try to wrest back occupied territory allowed Russia to fortify its positions along the almost 1,000km frontline. Satellite images reviewed by the Financial Timesand analysed by military experts revealed a multi-layered Russian network of anti-tank ditches, mazes of trenches, concrete “dragon’s teeth” barricades, steel “hedgehog” obstacles, spools of razor wire and minefields.
May 2023: Battle for Bakhmut
On May 21, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin hailed his first major victory since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, claiming that Russian forces had captured the eastern city of Bakhmut, despite Kyiv insisting the battle “was not over”. Putin said the Wagner paramilitary group had seized the Ukrainian city with help from Russia’s armed forces after months of bloody fighting that had caused more than 100,000 casualties and reduced the city to ruins. Earlier in the year, sat...
The number of Ukrainians fleeing the conflict has made it one of the largest refugee crises in modern history. Sources: Institute for the Study of War, Rochan Consulting, FT research. Cartography and development by Steve Bernard, Chris Campbell, Caitlin Gilbert, Cleve Jones, Emma Lewis, Joanna S Kao, Sam Learner, Ændra Rininsland, Niko Kommenda, Al...
- Cleve Jones
Sep 8, 2023 · Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia in maps: a visual guide. Ukraine’s counteroffensive has been underway for months, but the country’s hopes of a rapid and decisive breakthrough have...
Feb 24, 2022 · Ukrainian forces were holding out in Sievierodonetsk on Tuesday, resisting Russia's all-out assault to capture a bombed-out wasteland that Moscow has made the principal objective of its invasion...
