Ukraine invasion – day 52

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

Russian control
Territory 
Cities 
Russian advances
Claimed Ukrainian counteroffensives
Heavy fighting


1 Kyiv: Factory that produced anti-ship missiles allegedly used to sink Moskva, hit by Russian cruise missiles in response to alleged helicopter attack on Bryansk

2 Kharkiv: Russia’s 6th Combined Arms Army and 14th Army Corps shelling city to hide efforts to reinforce Izyum axis

3 Rubizhne: Russian assaults, also around Popasna and Marinka, gain no new territory

4 Izyum: Russian offensive by 58th and 8th Combined Arms Armies south of city towards Slovyansk and Barvinkove repelled

5 Mariupol: Russia deploying long-range Tu-22M3 bombers for first time, along with additional heavy artillery, to grind down defences in southwest and east of city

6 Sevastopol: U.S. intel confirms Moskva was sunk by two Ukrainian Neptune cruise missiles


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