Ukraine invasion – day 148 UKRAINE Kyiv Kharkiv RUSSIA Donbas UKRAINE Dnipro River Mykolaiv Kherson Odesa Lazurne KHERSON OBLAST BLACK SEA Sevastopol Kharkiv Izyum Barvinkove Slovyansk Bakhmut Vuhledar Zaporizhya Melitopol ZAPORIZHYA OBLAST Sea of Azov CRIMEA Annexed in 2014 RUSSIA LUHANSK OBLAST Severodonetsk Siversk Luhansk Popasna Donetsk DONETSK OBLAST Mariupol 80km 50 miles 1 1 1 1 2 3 4 5 Russian control before Feb 24 Russian control Russian advances Cities controlled Claimed Ukrainian counteroffensives Heavy fighting 1 Annexation: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Russia aims to expand territorial gains beyond Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts to Kherson and Zaporizhya Oblasts 2 Kharkiv: Russian forces advance from west and southeast of Ukraine’s second-biggest city 3 Donetsk: Ukrainian forces repel ground attacks north of city and around Vuhledar nuclear plant 4 Slovyansk: Ukraine repels ground attacks northwest of city. Fighting around Siversk and Bakhmut 5 Kherson: Ukraine steps up strikes on Antonivskyi Bridge – strategic Russian supply route Sources: Institute for the Study of War and Critical Threats, Reuters © GRAPHIC NEWS