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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.
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.
According to their estimate, approximately 2% of all Russian men between the ages of 20 and 50 may have been killed or seriously wounded in Ukraine since February 2022. [83] Meanwhile, Ukraine confirmed it had 10,000 killed and 30,000 wounded by the start of June 2022, [84] while 7,200 troops were missing, [85] including 5,600 captured. [86]
The following is a list of events from the year 2022 in Ukraine.. This year most notably saw the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the north in the Chernihiv, Kyiv, and Zhytomyr Oblasts, from the east into the Donetsk, Kharkiv, Luhansk, and Sumy Oblasts, and from the previously occupied Crimea to the south into the Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts.
There have been several rounds of peace talks to halt the Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022–present) and end the Russo-Ukrainian War (2014–present). The first meeting was held four days after the start of the invasion, on 28 February 2022, in Belarus.
The Russian Winter Offensive of 2022–2023 was a military campaign executed by Russian troops during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.On 22 December 2022, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov announced that the Russian army would focus on capturing the Donetsk Oblast. [4]
On 5 February 2022, two anonymous U.S. officials reported that Russia had assembled 83 battalion tactical groups, estimated to be 70 percent of its combat capabilities, for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and predicted that a hypothetical invasion would result in 8,000 to 35,000 military casualties and 25,000 to 50,000 civilian casualties.
The Western and Southern Military Districts share borders with Ukraine and are directly involved in command and control of operations. Pre-2022 Russian military doctrine had specified that on the outbreak of war, armed forces from non-MOD services (like Rosgvardiya) would be placed under the General Staff. [1]