The war between Russia and Ukraine has not yet come to an end. It continues to cause severe damage to human lives and property. Russia has not shown any signs of stopping the war, despite numerous sanctions from various parts of the world.
Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin officially approved the evacuation of civilians from a section of the Russian-occupied Kherson province in southern Ukraine. The key port city has been constantly being targeted by Kyiv’s forces.
Putin warned those in high-risk areas to evacuate immediately so that “the civilian population should not suffer.” According to reports, at least 70,000 residents have already left Kherson, the only significant city that Moscow has seized possession of since Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February.
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Here’s the timeline of the Russia-Ukraine War:
07 November: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, issued a warning that a new round of strikes on its power infrastructure could be launched using Iranian drones, which Ukraine claims Russia is deploying to target its towns and energy networks. Zelenskyy stated in his nightly address that Ukraine is aware that Russia “is concentrating forces and means for a possible replay of mass strikes on our infrastructure.” The first thing is energy. He claimed that Russia specifically needs Iranian missiles for this and that Ukraine is getting ready to respond.
Ukraine also claimed that Russia had occupied abandoned homes in the southern city of Kherson with troops dressed in civilian clothing in order to practice street warfare in what both sides believe will be one of the war’s key engagements. In recent days, Russia has issued an order for citizens to leave Kherson in preparation for a Ukrainian assault to retake the city, which Moscow has claimed as the only regional capital since its invasion in February.
06 November: Iran has officially acknowledged for the first time that it delivered drones to Russia prior to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, but it has argued that this was not the case. Ukraine and its Western allies have accused Russia of carrying out assaults in recent weeks using drones built in Iran. Tehran has consistently refuted these allegations, although Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the foreign minister, was quoted as claiming on Saturday that drones had been transferred to Russia before the assault started in late February.
27 & 28 October: Russian President Vladimir Putin has monitored drills of the country’s strategic nuclear forces involving multiple practice launches of ballistic and cruise missiles, in a show of force amid the heightened tensions with the West over the conflict in Ukraine. After Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that such a decision would destroy their bilateral relations, South Korean President denied that Seoul provided any lethal weapons to Ukraine.
26 October: When Afghanistan fell to the Taliban last year, the country’s elite National Army Commando Corps was abandoned by the United States and Western allies. Now they are being approached about joining the Russian military to fight in Ukraine.
23 October: Russia’s unsubstantiated claim that Ukraine is preparing to use a “dirty bomb” on its own territory as part of an escalation of Vladimir Putin’s war has been rejected by the United States as “transparently false.”
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12 October: The UN General Assembly passed a resolution by a large majority on Wednesday, calling on countries not to recognise the four regions of Ukraine which Russia has claimed, following so-called referendums held late last month, and demanding that Moscow reverse course on its “attempted illegal annexation”.
10 October: Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and several other major cities have been hit in a barrage of missile attacks that hit civilian targets and killed several people, according to Ukrainian officials.
9 October: A Russian missile attack early struck an apartment block and other residential buildings in Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, killing at least 13 people and injuring 87 others, including 10 children, Ukrainian officials said.
6 October: According to reports in U.S. media, U.S. intelligence agencies believe that elements within the Ukrainian government authorised the car bombing that resulted in the death of the daughter of Aleksandr Dugin, a far-right ideologue with connections to the Kremlin.
October 4: According to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, since President Putin ordered a partial mobilization two weeks ago, over 200,000 people have already been drafted into Russia’s armed forces.
3 October: Ukrainian forces made their biggest breakthrough since the war began in the south of the country. They broke through Russian defences and advanced quickly along the Dnipro River, putting thousands of Russian troops’ supply lines in danger.
1 October: According to officials in Kyiv, Ukrainian troops have surrounded Russian troops in a crucial town in Donetsk that is controlled by Russia. According to reports, the footage shows Ukrainian soldiers hoisting the nation’s flag at the town entrance of Lyman, which Russia seized in May.
30 September: Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian regions, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, in a Kremlin ceremony and promised the country to achieve success in its “special military operation” against Ukraine.
29 September: a resolution was passed by the Finnish government to significantly limit Russian tourists’ access to Finland. On September 30, 2022, at 00:00, the entry restrictions will take effect and remain in effect until further notice.
21 September: As Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine continues, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military mobilization in Russia, putting the nation’s people and economy on a wartime footing.
20 September: The Russian Duma adds articles on looting and surrender to the Criminal Code, as well as the concepts of “mobilization” and “martial law.”
19 September: In what Ukrainian authorities deemed an act of “nuclear terrorism,” a Russian missile hit industrial equipment close to a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine without damaging the three reactors.
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15 September: The US announced a $600 million security package for Ukraine, offering the Ukrainian military yet more support in its ongoing counteroffensive against Russian forces.
13 September: The New Voice of Ukraine reported, “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DNR) troops have left Kyselivka and moved back toward the Dnipro River. Satellite imagery of known Russian positions in Kyselivka, 15 kilometres northwest of Kherson, shows that all but four Russian vehicles have left their previous forward positions.
11 September: Ukraine gained control of the Kharkiv region by raising flags over Russian-occupied towns and villages for six months and retaking areas Moscow had taken on the first day of Putin’s invasion.
10 September: According to officials in Ukraine, troops entered Kupiansk, a crucial Russian supply hub in the east.
9 September: Parts of Kharkiv Oblast were retaken by Ukrainian forces.
7 September: Due to the necessity of replenishing US stocks and meeting the requirements of Ukraine, the United States plans to double its production of 155 mm shells. The Pentagon intends to construct one additional HIMARS each month.
6 September: Sky News reported a bomb attack left Artem Bardin, a Russian official in Berdyansk, with serious injuries.
24 August: Ukraine celebrates both the six-month anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion and its day of independence from Soviet rule. Zelenskyy delivers a defiant speech, claiming that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had “reborn” the country: We are only concerned with our land, not your army. We will fight to the end for it.
20 August: In what may have been an attempt on her father’s life, Darya Dugina, the prominent Russian ultranationalist Alexander Dugin’s daughter, is killed in a car bombing near Moscow. Ukraine refuted Russia’s claims that it was responsible for the attack.
18 August: As Ukraine and Russia accuse one another of shelling close to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, UN chief Antonio Guterres warns that doing so would be “suicide.”
16 August: As a suspected Russian ammunition depot bursts into flames, a series of explosions shake the Crimean village of Mayskoye, necessitating the evacuation of 3,000 residents. Russia refers to it as “a result of sabotage” without naming any culprits.
9 August: In what appears to be the first significant Ukrainian attack on a Russian base on the peninsula, an estimated nine Russian warplanes were destroyed on the ground at the airbase of Saky in Crimea.
A command post at Maksyma Horkoho on the southwestern Kherson coast and Russian ammunition warehouses in Novooleksiivka in Crimea are also destroyed by Ukraine.
7 August: In attacks on Berislavsky and one other location in the Kherson oblast, the southern command of Ukraine reports the destruction of 24 Russian multiple rocket launchers, a T-62 tank, five armoured vehicles, and an ammunition warehouse.
6 August: According to the southern command of Ukraine, its forces destroyed an ammunition warehouse and 39 Russian rocket launchers.
1 August: Following an agreement to lift a Russian blockade on July 22, the first ship carrying Ukrainian grain leaves port.
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July 31:Five people are injured when a drone believed to be from Ukraine crashes into Russia’s Black Sea fleet headquarters in Sevastopol on Russia’s Navy Day.
July 27:Using HIMARS rocket artillery, Ukrainian forces destroy the Antonivka vehicle and rail bridges, rendering them inoperable for heavy military transport. This aids in cutting off Russian forward positions in Kherson.
July 26:According to Gazprom, a state-owned Russian company, the Nord Stream 1 pipeline’s gas supply will be reduced by half to 20% of capacity. Between August this year and March 2023, EU energy ministers agree to reduce natural gas use by 15% on their own.
July 22:An agreement mediated by the United Nations allows Russia and Ukraine to export grain through the Black Sea.
July 21:Ukraine claims to have destroyed a Russian ammunition warehouse in the southern Kherson region.
July 20:Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov stated in an interview with the Russian newspaper Ria Novosti that Russia had deviated from its official objective of occupying the two eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk. He also stated that Zaporizhia and Kherson in the south are also important to take.
July 17:According to Zelenskyy, Russia has launched 3,000 cruise missiles at his nation.
July 4:An international conference on the restoration of Ukraine takes place in Lugano, Switzerland, and attracts participants from forty nations. Denys Shmyhal, the prime minister of Ukraine, claims that $750 billion is needed.
July 3:Even though partisan fighting continues, Russia asserts that it has taken Lysychansk, giving it nominal control of the Luhansk oblast.
June 30:Russian forces withdraw from Snake Island in the Black Sea after being hit hard by missiles fired by Ukrainian forces.
June 29: After Turkey lifts its veto, NATO invites Finland and Sweden to join the alliance in writing.
June 27:At least 18 people were killed when Russian missiles struck a shopping centre in Kremenchuk, central Ukraine.
A 30-day grace period on $100 million in interest payments causes Russia to default on its sovereign debt for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
June 24: Ukraine and Moldova are officially invited to apply for EU membership by the EU.
June 22:According to Ukraine, it has freed 1,026 Russian-controlled settlements.
June 15:Through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, Russia reduces gas deliveries to Europe to 40% of capacity.
June 13:During a press conference in Finland, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg appears to suggest that in exchange for peace, Ukraine will have to accept the loss of sovereignty or territory.
June 6:The UK announces that it will send to Ukraine M270 multiple launch rocket systems with a range of 80 kilometers.
June 2:Hennadiy Lahuta, the head of the military administration for the Kherson oblast, says that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has freed 20 villages.
June 1: Russian troops hold the city centre of Severdonetsk and, according to estimates, up to 70 percent of the city.
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May 31:Ukrainian troops retreat tactically as Russian forces occupy Severdonetsk’s centre. As Russian forces attempt to complete an encirclement of Severdonetsk from the south, fighting erupts in the town of Toshkivka, which is south of Severdonetsk.
Ukrainian forces launch a counteroffensive in the south in the direction of Kherson, pushing Russian forces east of the Inhulets River.
Following a decision on the sixth set of sanctions against Russia, the EU prohibits Russian oil and petroleum products. Pipeline oil is granted a temporary exemption due to the objections of landlocked nations that claim they are unable to easily supply themselves via sea.
May 30:Biden makes the decision to send “more advanced rocket systems” to Ukraine after some hesitation to enable more precise artillery strikes. In order to strengthen Ukraine’s defenses, the United States will send high mobility artillery rocket systems (HIMARS) and guided multiple launch rocket systems (GMLRS).
May 28:Ukraine launches a counteroffensive in Kherson, reportedly putting Russian forces in a defensive position that is “disadvantageous” and causing significant losses.
In phone calls with leaders of France and Germany, Putin offers to ease sanctions against Russia in exchange for facilitating grain exports from Ukraine.
May 27:The Mir hotel is taken over as Russian forces advance on Severdonetsk from three distinct directions and begin direct assaults on the city’s built-up areas in the north.
May 26:The northeastern part of Severdonetsk is said to be in the hands of Russian forces, who are reportedly continuing their gradual encirclement of the city. According to Anna Malyar, the deputy defense minister of Ukraine, “fighting has reached its maximum intensity.”The adversary is simultaneously storming our troops’ positions from multiple angles.
May 25: According to Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the militia of the Russia-backed Donetsk People’s Republic, Russia is currently focusing on isolated attacks rather than the larger strategy of encircling all of Ukraine’s forces in the east with a massive pincer movement.
Zelenskyy slams Henry Kissinger, a former US Secretary of State, for suggesting that Ukraine hand over land to Russia. He compares it to the 1930s appeasement policy.
May 23: Ukraine sentences the first Russian soldier convicted of war crimes to life in prison.
May 21: Russia says it has full control of Mariupol, after almost 2,500 Ukrainian troops surrender.
May 19:The United States approved $40 billion in new Ukraine spending, with half going toward military investments.
May 18:Over the course of five years, the European Commission announces a plan to eliminate Russian fossil fuels worth 236 billion euros.
May 17:The Azovstal operation in Mariupol is declared finished by the military of Ukraine.265 Ukrainians have surrendered, as confirmed by Russia’s defense ministry.
May 15:After two centuries of neutrality, Sweden announces its intention to apply for membership in NATO.
May 12:Finland declares that it will apply to join NATO.
May 11:Iryna Vereshchuk, the deputy prime minister of Ukraine, claims that Russia has sent 460,000 Ukrainians to 6,500 camps across Russia. The flow of gas through one of two major pipelines is reduced by one quarter as a result of Ukraine’s first-ever restriction on Russian gas transiting its territory to Europe.
May 9:Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, is in favour of strengthening Ukraine’s relationship with the EU, which would allow Ukraine and other EU hopefuls like Moldova and Georgia to quickly enjoy many aspects of membership.
May 4:The first significant victory for Ukraine since winning the battle for Kyiv was a counteroffensive launched by the Ukrainians to the north and east of Kharkiv that drove Russian troops 40 kilometres away from the city.
May 3:Mario Draghi, the prime minister of Italy, gave a speech to the European Parliament in which he called for a “pragmatic federalism” in which majorities of member states could override vetoes against collective action. This was a clear reference to Hungary and Slovakia, which are preventing the EU from banning Russian oil and gas.
May 2:Germany says it is willing to immediately ban Russian oil.
April 28: In order to expedite the delivery of weapons to Ukraine, the US Congress restores “lend-lease” facilities from the Second World War. A $33 billion spending package for Ukraine is proposed by Biden to Congress.
April 27:Russia cuts off gas flow to Bulgaria and Poland, allegedly for refusing to pay for gas in roubles.
April 26:At a military donors’ conference held at Germany’s Ramstein air base, Austin urges delegates from forty nations to provide Ukraine’s war effort with additional weapons as soon as possible.
April 21:Despite the fact that 2,500 Ukrainian defenders in the Azovstal steelworks have not surrendered, Putin declares victory in Mariupol.
April 18:In an effort to regain full control of the oblasts of Luhansk and Donetsk, Russian forces launch a new, extensive offensive in eastern Ukraine.
April 14:With two Neptune missiles, Ukraine claims to have submerged the Russian Black Sea Fleet flagship Moskva.
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April 10:Russian forces bisect Mariupol.
April 8:The EU prohibits Russian coal, lumber, cement, seafood, and fertilizers from being imported.
April 7:At least 52 people were killed when a cluster bomb fired by Russia struck a train station full of thousands of evacuees, according to Ukrainian authorities. Kramatorsk, a city in the eastern Donetsk region, is the location of the attack.
April 2:Numerous civilian-clothed corpses are discovered on the streets of Bucha, a town northwest of Kyiv, as Russian troops leave the area.
April 1:According to a report from Al Jazeera, Russia is using proxy groups in Syria to recruit Ukrainian fighters.
March 29:Negotiators from Russia and Ukraine meet in Istanbul. Ukraine presents a comprehensive neutrality proposal.
March 26: Biden appears to suggest a regime change in Moscow while visiting US troops in Poland. Biden says of Putin, “This man cannot remain in power for the sake of God.”The next day, Biden retracts the remark.
March 25: Russia begins withdrawing troops from Kyiv and declares that it will concentrate on establishing control over the eastern Ukrainian provinces of Luhansk and Donetsk.
March 24:During a trip to Europe, Biden promises to send 15 billion cubic meters (bcm) more natural gas to Europe than he did last year, bringing this year’s shipments to 37 bcm. By 2030, it promises an additional $50 billion.
March 23:Russia has lost between 7,000 and 15,000 soldiers, estimates by NATO. The official conclusion of the administration of US President Joe Biden is that Russia committed war crimes in Ukraine. Putin says future gas deals to “unfriendly” nations – relating to the US, EU, the UK, and Japan – are denominated in roubles rather than US dollars.
March 16: While civilians take cover inside the Mariupol theatre, Russian forces kill hundreds of people. The conflict reaches the city centre.
March 11: The European Union issues the Versailles Declaration, urging its member states to improve coordination, investment, research, and defense spending. With support from the Group of Seven (G7) nations, the United States is leading a new round of sanctions against Russia.
March 10: The US Congress approves spending $13.6 billion on Ukraine.
March 9: A maternity hospital in the besieged city of Mariupol becomes the target of Russian air strikes.
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March 8: The European Commission’s REPowerEU plan, which aims to reduce dependence on Russian natural gas by two-thirds by the end of the year, is more ambitious than the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) plan, which was unveiled on March 3. Russian crude oil imports are prohibited by the United States.
March 2:Kherson, a town in southern Ukraine with 250,000 people, is the first major population center to be destroyed by Russian tanks. Russian forces surround Mariupol.
March 1: A 65-kilometer-long Russian convoy moves toward Kyiv.
February 28: A $537 million aid package for the Ukrainian military is approved by the EU. According to EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, “this is the first time in history that the EU will be providing lethal equipment to a third country.”Since then, EU aid has increased to 4.5 billion euros ($4.8 billion).
February 27: Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Kherson are the three cities that Russian troops are moving toward. According to Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, Russian civilian aircraft are prohibited from entering EU airspace, and state-owned Russian media outlets Russia Today, Sputnik, and their subsidiaries are also banned from entering EU airwaves and the internet.
February 26: The European Union has stated that some Russian banks will be excluded from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) system, effectively excluding them from the global financial system.
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