100 days of war in Ukraine

After failing to seize the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Vladimir Putin has his sights set on military victory in the east and south as the conflict develops into a protracted war of attrition with no end in sight


Feb 24: Russia launches full-scale invasion of Ukraine, sparking biggest war in Europe since World War II
Russian President Vladimir Putin calls it “special military operation” to “denazify” Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says “Russia has embarked on a path of evil”

Feb 25: Russian forces attack from three sides as artillery pounds Kyiv

Mar 1: Vast Russian convoy bearing down on Kyiv is bogged down by logistical problems and strong Ukrainian resistance
Russia steps up bombardment of Kharkiv as advance on Kyiv stalls

Mar 2: Siege of Mariupol begins. Kherson is first major city to be captured by Russian troops

Mar 4: Russian forces seize Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant at Zaporizhya

Mar 8: Civilians flee Sumy in first successful humanitarian corridor

Mar 9: Ukraine accuses Russia of bombing maternity hospital in Mariupol

Mar 13: Russian missiles strike Yavoriv training base, close to Polish border

Mar 16: Powerful bomb hits Mariupol theatre sheltering hundreds of civilians

Mar 25: Moscow scales back ambitions to focus on “liberating” east. Ukrainian forces recapture towns outside Kyiv as Russians withdraw

Mar 29: Strike on Mykolaiv kills scores as Russian forces advance west along Black Sea coast

Apr 3: Ukraine accuses Russia of war crimes after mass graves are found in recaptured town of Bucha

Apr 8: Ukraine blames Russia for missile attack on Kramatorsk train station that kills nearly 60 people

Apr 14: Moskva, flagship of Russian Black Sea fleet, sinks following Ukrainian missile strike

Apr 18: Russia launches long-awaited offensive in eastern Donbas region

Apr 21: Putin declares Mariupol “liberated” but Ukrainian troops remain in Azovstal steelworks

Apr 25-26: Officials in Transnistria blame Ukrainian “infiltrators” for explosions. Kyiv accuses Moscow of staging attacks

Apr 28: Russia fires two missiles into Kyiv during visit by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

May 7: Up to 60 people feared dead after bomb hits school in Bilohorivka

May 9: Putin uses Victory Day speech to claim Russian forces are fighting for future of their motherland

May 10: Ukraine forces launch counteroffensive north of Kharkiv, pushing Russian troops back towards border

May 11: More than 400 Russian soldiers killed as Ukrainian forces destroy armoured column trying to cross river in Donbas

May 18: Finland and Sweden apply to join NATO

May 20: Last Ukrainian fighters holding out at Azovstal plant surrender. Mariupol left devastated after 79-day siege

May 27: Fighting in Donbas intensifies as city of Severodonetsk suffers onslaught of Russian shelling

May 29-30: Zelensky visits front line in Kharkiv in first official trip outside Kyiv region since invasion. Russian troops close in on centre of Severodonetsk

Jun 3: Conflict reaches 100th day


Russian control
Russian advances
Cities controlled
Areas where Ukraine has regained control

POLAND
BELARUS
Bucha
Lutsk
Lviv
Yavoriv
Transnistria: Russian-backed breakaway region
SLOVAKIA 
Ivano-Frankivsk
HUNGARY
MOLDOVA
ROMANIA
Chernihiv
Kyiv
UKRAINE
Dnieper river
Sumy
Kharkiv
Izyum
Kramatorsk
Dnipro 
Zaporizhya
Kryvyi Rih
Mykolaiv 
Melitopol
Kherson
Sea of Azov
Odesa 
Sevastopol
BLACK SEA
CRIMEA Annexed in 2014
RUSSIA
DONBAS: Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts
Belgorod
Bilohorivka 
Severodonetsk
LUHANSK OBLAST
Luhansk 
Donetsk
DONETSK OBLAST
Mariupol
100km 60 miles
GEORGIA


CUMULATIVE REFUGEES FLEEING UKRAINE
(Feb 24-May 29, UNHCR)

More than 6.8 million people have left Ukraine since Feb 24

7m 6m 5m 4m 3m 2m 1m 0

Feb 24
March
April
May 29

2.1m have returned to Ukraine, as of May 24


REFUGEES BY COUNTRY
(Feb 24- May 30)

Around 15 million people thought to have fled since invasion began, including 8m displaced within Ukraine

Ukraine
8 million
Internally Displaced Persons (IDP)

Belarus 30,000

Poland 3.6m

Slovakia 461,000

Hungary 682,000

Moldova 479,000

Romania 989,000 

Russia 971,000


CIVILIAN CASUALTIES
UN figures as of May 27. Actual numbers thought to be higher


Injured 4,735
Killed 4,031 
Total 8,766

Unknown number of combatants killed or wounded

 
Sources: ISW, OHCHR, Reuters, Bloomberg
Pictures: Getty Images, State Emergency Service of Ukraine, Mike Right/Twitter
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