Ukraine invasion – day 48

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

Russian control
Territory 
Cities 
Russian advances 
Cities encircled
Claimed Ukrainian counteroffensives
Heavy fighting

1 Belgorod region: Satellite images show 37th Tank Regiment elements massing ahead of renewed attacks on eastern Ukraine

2 Rubizhne: Fierce resistance against Russian assaults to capture Rubizhne and Popasna

3 Donbas: Russian tanks advancing in new assault. Ukrainian forces claim to have destroyed Tactical Battalion Group (BTG) of 70th Motorised Rifle Regiment

4 Kharkiv: Reports of 11 civilians killed. Attacks by two BTGs repulsed between Izyum and Slovyansk

5 Kherson region: Ukrainian attacks from west and north on Russian positions

6 Mariupol: Russian forces capture fishing port.Two groups of Ukrainian defenders around Port of Mariupol and southeastern steel plant. Claims of Russian use of drone- delivered chemical weapons

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Sources: Institute for the Study of War, UK Ministry of Defence, Reuters 
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