Ukraine invasion – day 51


POLAND
SLOVAKIA
HUNGARY
ROMANIA
MOLDOVA
BELARUS
Lviv
Kyiv
UKRAINE
Kherson 
Mykolaiv
Odesa
Sevastopol
BLACK SEA
Bryansk
RUSSIA 
Kursk
Sumy 
Kharkiv 
Izyum 
Popasna 
Mar’inka
CRIMEA Annexed in 2014
Belgorod 
DONBAS
Rubizhne
Luhansk 
Donetsk
Mariupol
Berdyansk
Melitopol
GEORGIA
100km 60 miles
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Russian control
Territory 
Cities 
Russian advances
Claimed Ukrainian counteroffensives
Heavy fighting


1 Belarus: Russian aircraft and 36th Combined Arms Army redeployed to western Russia

2 Bryansk: Russia blames Ukraine for helicopter air strikes on residential buildings, attacks on villages

3 Kyiv: Powerful explosions in city

4 Donbas: Ukraine claims to have repelled attacks at Popasna and Rubizhne. Russia’s 2nd Combined Arms Army are first troops redeployed from fighting in northern Ukraine

5 Mariupol: Continued assault with heavy air and artillery support to capture port in southwest of city. Ukrainian forces holding out at Azovstal Steel Plant in east Mariupol

6 Melitopol: Partisans claim to have killed 70 Russian troops

7 Sevastopol: Russia’s Black Sea flagship Moskva – hit by two Neptune cruise missiles – sinks while being towed to port. Other Russian warships pulled south, out of missile range


Sources: Institute for the Study of War, Reuters, BBC, Kyiv Independent 
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