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The Moscow Times, citing multiple sources from Russia, Ukraine and other European countries, reported that Russian forces had taken Chasiv Yar. [151] Ukrainian military officials denied the claim. [152] Ukrainian media reported that the HUR carried out a cyberattack on the Russian gas firm Gazprom and its subsidiary Gazprom Neft. [153]
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.
According to Russia, Ukraine deployed 125,000 troops to the Donbas conflict zone in December 2021. [335] The United States estimated in December 2021 that Russia could assemble over 175,000 troops to invade Ukraine. [336] Oleksii Reznikov, Ukrainian Minister of Defence, stated that "we have 250,000 official [...] members of our army.
Ukraine [a] is a country in Eastern Europe.It is the second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which borders it to the east and northeast. [b] Ukraine also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova [c] to the southwest; and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called Russia's missile strikes "particularly shocking". [37] Denise Brown, UN aid coordinator in Ukraine, condemned the attack and called for civilians to be protected. Munir Mammadzade, UNICEF representative, said that the Russian invasion "continues impacting children disproportionately". [38]
Russo-Ukrainian War – ongoing international conflict between Russia, alongside Russian-backed separatists, and Ukraine, which began in February 2014. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity , Russia annexed Ukrainian Crimea and supported pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas war.
Although Ukraine is not a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and does not have a military alliance with the United States or any NATO nation, [3] from 24 January to 3 August 2022, the Kiel Institute has tracked $84.2 billion from the 40 NATO-member countries in financial, humanitarian, and military aid to Ukraine.
During the morning of 17 November 2024, Russia launched a massive air attack on cities across Ukraine, killing two people in Mykolaiv, two in Nikopol, two in Odesa and one person in Lviv. [1] [2] [3] According to the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, about 120 missiles and 90 drones were fired overnight and in the early morning.