Ukraine invasion – day 53

POLAND
SLOVAKIA 
HUNGARY
ROMANIA
MOLDOVA
Lviv
BELARUS
Kyiv
UKRAINE
Kherson 
Mykolaiv
Odesa
BLACK SEA
Kursk
Belgorod
Kharkiv 
Izyum
Slovyansk
Avdiivka
CRIMEA Annexed in 2014
RUSSIA
DONBAS
Rubizhne
Popasna
Luhansk 
Donetsk
Mariupol
GEORGIA
100km 60 miles

Russian control
Territory 
Cities 
Russian advances
Claimed Ukrainian counteroffensives
Heavy fighting

1 1 2 3 4 5 6


1 Kyiv: Russia claims to have destroyed armoured vehicle plant in air strike. Military repair facility in Mykolaiv also hit

2 Russia: Military rotation of troops in Syria postponed. Deployment of 68th Army Corps from Far East– one of last units not to have already fought in Ukraine – sent to Donbas

3 Popasna: Small tactical Russian assaults, shelling of Rubizhne and Severodonetsk continues

4 Avdiivka: Russian artillery strikes, possibly in preparation for ground offensive to complement drive from Izyum towards Slovyansk

5 Mariupol: 03:00 GMT deadline for surrender of around 2,500 Ukrainian soldiers still at Azovstal Steel Plant passes without response. Naval landing believed to be imminent

6 Odesa: Russia claims to have brought down Ukrainian plane carrying western arms shipment


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