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Order of battle: Order of battle: Strength; 2,000 – 8,000 (initial force per Ukraine) [1] 72,000–75,000 (Northern Group of Forces total strength by August 7 per ISW) [2] 46,000-47,000 (Belgorod Group of Forces total strength by September 29 per ISW) [3] Unknown: Casualties and losses; 10,500 civilians evacuated
The northern Ukraine campaign was a theater of operation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.It involved attacks by Russia across the Russo-Ukrainian and Belarusian–Ukrainian borders, beginning on 24 February 2022, for control of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, and the surrounding areas of Kyiv Oblast and northern regions Zhytomyr Oblast, Sumy Oblast, and Chernihiv Oblast.
On 17–18 August, 25 people were killed [173] and several dozen were injured in a missile strike on two dormitories. [174] Also on 18 August, new Russian strike destroyed Palace of culture of railroad workers. [175] 19 August was proclaimed a day of mourning in the city for people killed in the preceding days. [176]
2022 Saky air base attack was an event during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, when several large explosions occurred at the Saky airbase in the town of Novofedorivka, Crimea, on 9 August 2022. [1] The military base was seized by Russian forces during the 2014 annexation of Crimea , part of the Russo-Ukrainian War .
As of January 2024, Ukrainian obituaries recorded the names of 7,644 Ukrainian servicemen killed during the battle of Bakhmut. [482] In April 2024, the Ukrainian Khortytsia Joint Task Force claimed that Russia had suffered "total losses", only in the eastern direction, of 24,156 personnel, 308 tanks, 671 armored vehicles, 575 guns and mortars ...
The United States military attempted to defend the base with Patriot missiles. More than 15 MIM-104 Patriot missiles were launched to defend the base. [49] On August 5, 2024, a missile attack targeted the Al-Asad airbase in western Iraq, resulting in injuries to at least five US servicemembers and two contractors. [50]
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The Kharkiv death toll exceeded 1,000 by August. [37] By September 2022, Oleksandr Syrskyi, who had been in charge of the defense of Kyiv at the beginning of the invasion and later received the title of Hero of Ukraine for his service, was appointed to command the Ukrainian land forces in Kharkiv Oblast. The counteroffensive was performed under ...