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Russian invasion of Ukraine Part of the Russo-Ukrainian War (outline) Map of Ukraine as of 1 December 2024 (details): Continuously controlled by Ukraine Currently occupied or controlled by Russia Formerly occupied by Russia or Ukrainian-occupied Russian territory Date 24 February 2022 – present (2 years, 9 months, 2 weeks and 6 days) Location Ukraine, western Russia, Black Sea Status Ongoing ...
The Russian invasion that followed was internationally condemned; many countries imposed sanctions against Russia, and sent humanitarian and military aid to Ukraine. In the face of fierce resistance, Russia abandoned an attempt to take Kyiv in early April. In August, Ukrainian forces began recapturing territories in the north-east and south.
The Ukrainian Defence Ministry said that 177 Ukrainian POWs had died in Russian custody since the start of the full-scale invasion, with "thousands more" at risk. [ 364 ] The Ukrainian State Bureau of Investigation arrested two officials of the Pension Fund of Ukraine from Khmelnytskyi Oblast on suspicion of illegally registering men with "non ...
On March 1, 2022, one week after Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine, the Russian-language edition of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia announced that the Russian government's media regulator Roskomnadzor had threatened to block access to Wikipedia in the country. [6] The Russian government cited "illegally distributed information" present ...
French police opened an investigation into the suspected poisoning of Russian journalist and former Kremlin propagandist Marina Ovsyannikova, who had previously protested the Russian invasion of Ukraine, after she suddenly collapsed outside her apartment. In early October, she was sentenced in absentia to eight and a half years in prison by a ...
Russia claimed to have taken the village of Klishchiivka in Donetsk Oblast for the second time since the start of the invasion in 2022. [412] Russian drone strikes on power facilities in Sumy cut power to over half a million consumers in Sumy, Chernihiv, and Kharkiv Oblasts. [413] Ukraine claimed to have shot down a Russian Su-25 jet near ...
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed to have destroyed three Tochka-U missiles over the region and thwarted a drone attack on Moscow. [158] 10 October: A couple was reportedly killed by Ukrainian shelling in Popovka, Belgorod Oblast. [159] A Russian conscript was killed while five other soldiers were wounded in an attack in Gudovka, Bryansk ...
Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington, D.C. on December 21, 2022. The United States has supported Ukraine during the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.After it began on 24 February 2022, President Joe Biden condemned the invasion, provided military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, and imposed sanctions against Russia and Belarus.