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The Russian invasion of Ukraine marks its first anniversary this Friday, and Russia’s focus is on Bakhmut in the Donbas, where the bloodiest fighting of the military campaign has been raging for weeks.
More than 8,000 civilians have died since the conflict began. Ukraine according to the UN Human Rights Office, which also lists about 13,287 injured among the population.
These were the key points:
INVASION
24 February.- Russia begins to bomb Donbass (east). Three days earlier, the Kremlin recognized the Donetsk and Luhansk regions as independent republics. The invasion unfolds in the following days with rocket attacks on Kyiv, Kharkov, the second largest city (north) and the Dnieper (center).
THE CAPTURE OF KHERSON AND THE BLOCKADA OF MARIUPOL
March 14th.- Russia breaks into Kherson (Black Sea), blocks Mariupol, a strategic port in the Donbass, and attacks Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, ZaporozhyeAnd Chernobyl.
March 7.- Russia launches rockets at Kharkiv, Sumy (northeast) and Odessa (south), and on the 9th bombs a mother and child hospital in Mariupol.
March 22.- Moscow tightens control over the corridor between Donbass and Crimea (annexed in 2014).
26 March.- Russia attacks Lvov and continues the siege of Mariupol, Kharkov and Irpen (outside Kyiv).
March 28.- Ukraine retakes Irpin and avoids encirclement of the capital, forcing Russia to withdraw from Kyiv on 1 April.
BUCH Slaughter / SIEGE OF SEVERODONETSK AND LITAN
April, 4. In Bucha, on the outskirts of the village. Kyiv. The international community condemns the genocide.
April 11.- Pro-Russian militias take Mariupol and Ukraine denounces the possible use of chemical weapons in the enclave, which Russia claims was taken on April 21, although it acknowledges that a hotbed of resistance at the Azovstal steel plant still exists.
May 1–17 – Evacuation begins at steel mill until 1,730 soldiers surrender. Ukrainians who resisted in it.
May 25-June 25.- Russia takes Severodonetsk to neutralize the Ukrainian troops in Donetsk, as well as the important Liman railway junction.
July 1-3 – Capture of Lisichansk Russiansthe last stronghold under Ukrainian control in Luhansk.
July 20. – South Ukrainian is again suffering heavy shelling, especially in Dnepropetrovsk, near the Crimea.
July 22.-Ukraine and Russia create a sea corridor for the export of grain.
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE IN ZAPORIZHIA/ILLEGAL REFERENDUMS
July 17th.- Russia bombarded Zaporozhye 61 times.
July 24-28.- Ukrainian troops advance towards Kherson after many days of bombardment of bridges across the Dnieper (keys for supplying this city) in an attempt to recapture it, and where Russia Prepare a referendum.
August 13. – Fierce Russian battles in Donetsk and Zaporozhye.
September 13.- Zelensky he claims that his troops have liberated 6,000 square kilometers in the east and south.
September 27.- Referendums held under pressure, in which Russia Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia were annexed and not recognized by the international community.
October 7th.- Russia Iranian drones attacked Zaporozhye for the first time. Ukrainewhich claims to have restored 500 square kilometers in the south.
October 8.- A strong explosion destroyed part of the bridge. Crimea linking the occupied peninsula with Russia, which he blames on Ukraine. In response, Moscow bombs on a large scale Kyiv, Lviv and Zaporozhye.
October 19.- Ukraine goes on the offensive on Kherson, from which Russia withdraws on November 9.
ATTACKS ON THE ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE OF UKRAINE
October 31.- Russia launches 50 rockets that leave hundreds of cities without power and water after being charged Kyiv attack the Black Sea Fleet and suspend the grain export agreement, which was subsequently renewed after receiving guarantees.
15th of November.- Russia capture Pavlovka (Donsesk) and launch the largest airstrike on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
A rocket falls in Poland and kills two people. accuse Russia and then to Kyiv.
November 18th.- Russia begins to strengthen the Crimea.
November 23-December 19.- New Russian attacks with Iranian drones against Kyiv, Zaporozhye and Kharkov, as well as their infrastructures.
December 24-31.-Russia bomb civilian targets in Kherson and nearby towns.
BRIEF CEASEFIRE/ATTACK IN DONBASS
January 5, 2023- Putin declares for the first time a ceasefire on Orthodox Christmas and Kyiv he replies that there will be a “temporary truce” only when Russia leaves the occupied territories. On the 8th, Moscow ends the truce with attacks on Donbasswhere 600 soldiers would have died.
BATTLE FOR BAKHMUTH / DELIVERY OF EUROPEAN TANKS
January 17-23.- Russia moving north and south of Bakhmut, Soledar, Sil railway station and Klischevka. Control of Bakhmut and Soledar opens the way for the Russians to Kramatorsk and Slavyansk, the main Ukrainian strongholds in the Donbas.
January 24.- Germany approves the delivery of 14 Leopard 2 tanks and authorizes the delivery of German-made armored vehicles to Kyiv. On February 7, Berlin announced that the European coalition would deliver about 100 Leopard 1 main battle tanks.
January 29 – A group of Wagnerians in the service of Russiatakes possession of Blagodatny near Bakhmut and on February 12 Red.
February 3rd.- Zelensky calls on the West for long-range weapons to “liberate” Bakhmut.
February 8.- Zelensky interferes with the work of the British Parliament. The next day, he participates in an emergency summit in Brussels and in front of the European Parliament.
February 16.- Russia fired 32 cruise missiles at Lviv and other areas of western, northern and central Ukraine. The next day, Ukraine orders the evacuation of the last civilians from Bakhmut.
February 20th.- Russia occupies Paraskovievka, north of Bakhmut, which coincided with Joe Biden’s first visit to Kyiv.
February 21.- Putin suspends START-3 from USAlargest nuclear disarmament treaty.
February 22. — The UN General Assembly begins a special session on the war in Ukrainewith a strong presence of EU members.
EFE
Source: RPP
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