Ukraine invasion – day 42

POLAND
SLOVAKIA 
HUNGARY
ROMANIA
MOLDOVA
BELARUS
Chernobyl
Lutsk
Lviv
Ivano-Frankivsk
Chernihiv
Kyiv
UKRAINE
Mykolaiv
Kherson 
Odesa
BLACK SEA
RUSSIA
Sumy
Kharkiv
Trostyanets
Husarivka
Dnipro 
Zaporizhya
Izyum
CRIMEA Annexed in 2014
Rubizhne
DONBAS REGION
GEORGIA
Luhansk
Popasna
Donetsk
Mariupol
Berdyansk 
Melitopol
100km 60 miles
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 

Russian control
Territory 
Cities 
Russian advances 
Cities encircled
Claimed Ukrainian counteroffensives


1 Borodyanka: Hundreds of people feared buried under bombed civilian apartment blocks

2 Chernihiv: Ukrainian forces regain control of state border

3 Sumy: Ukrainian forces clearing Romny district after Russian pull out

4 Belgorod: Concentration area for Russian forces regrouping after retreat from Kyiv and Chernihiv

5 Kharkiv: Russians continuing efforts to advance southeast from Izyum toward Slovyansk

6 Donbas: Russian forces destroy nitric acid tank in Rubizhne and reportedly drop internationally banned petal mines on Popasna

Kyiv claims Moscow plans to send army unit reportedly involved in war crimes in Bucha into eastern Ukraine

7 Mariupol: Ukrainians still resisting in parts of city

8 Dnipro region: Air strikes destroy oil depot, set factory ablaze

9 Kherson: Russian forces attack Oleksandrivka
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Sources: Institute for the Study of War, UK Ministry of Defence, Reuters 
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