UKRAINE MAP. More than a year after the start of the war in Ukraine, a look back at the evolution of the fighting on the ground, month by month.
[Updated March 10, 2023 3:07 PM] More than a year ago, on February 24, 2022, Russian military troops, on the orders of President Vladimir Putin, invaded Ukraine, for a military operation announced in a first beat as fast. Since then, military and civilian losses have accumulated, and the conflict has caused an exodus of part of the population. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, more than 7.2 million Ukrainians have left the country. Despite several military setbacks, the Russian army continues its offensive.
At the start of the war, the Russian army stormed the east, into the Donbass, and the south of the country. And another front is opening in the North, threatening kyiv, the capital. Vladimir Putin’s forces are finally pushed back to Irpin, a month after the start of their offensive. From April, the Russian troops concentrate on the East and the South of the country.
Despite some progress on both sides, the conflict bogged down in the summer. The Ukrainian military launched counter-offensives, first around Kharkiv at the end of the summer, then in Kherson around mid-November. More than a year after the start of the conflict, fighting is raging in Bakhmout, Donbass, causing severe military casualties on both sides. In recent weeks, the situation seems frozen in eastern Ukraine, around Donbass, the Sea of ??Azov and part of the Black Sea, where the war is concentrated.
Using the various situation maps produced by the French Ministry of Defence, discover how the war has evolved since February 24, 2022, month by month. What better way to realize the location of the fighting, the advances and setbacks of each camp after more than a year of a struggle that is not about to stop.
In an address to the Russian nation on February 21, Vladimir Putin announced “to settle step by step, carefully and methodically, the objectives that arise before us”, thus affirming that he wanted to continue the war, “to ensure the security of our country, to eliminate threats from a neo-Nazi regime that has existed in Ukraine since the 2014 coup,” he said. For his part, on February 24, Volodymyr Zelensky promised that Ukraine “will do everything to achieve victory this year” and that it will not stop “until the Russian murderers are punished.”
