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A third year of war in Ukraine drags on as the new year and the conflict's February anniversary approach. The war in 2024 saw major shifts on the battlefield and in Western politics.
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 ...
A Ukrainian civic group said it has confirmed the deaths of nearly 25,000 Ukrainian soldiers since Russia’s February 2022 invasion by using open sources, and puts the total toll at more than 30,000.
On 9 August 2024, HIMARS destroyed a convoy of Russian troops in Kursk Oblast in what Russian milbloggers described as one of the bloodiest attacks of the entire war. [ 88 ] [ 313 ] On 12 August, Ukrainian military expert Mykhailo Zhirokhov claimed that the ratio of Ukrainian to Russian manpower losses as "closer to 1 to 10", and the number of ...
Russia launched another wave of air attacks across Ukraine. [162] Three people were killed in Russian drone attacks on Zaporizhzhia Oblast. [163] One person was killed in a missile strike in Bohodukhiv. [164] Russia captured the village of Kalynove, southeast of Pokrovsk, [165] and likely captured the village of Kostiantynivka, southwest of ...
As of Aug. 31, 2024 the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine had documented at least 11,743 civilians killed and 24,614 wounded in Ukraine since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.
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.
After initially failing to advance on the capital Kyiv after their February 2022 invasion, Russian forces have focused on securing control of Donbas, made up of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.