Ukraine invasion – day 223 Kyiv UKRAINE RUSSIA UKRAINE Zaporizhya Zaporizhya NPP Dudchany Mykolaiv Kherson Odesa KHERSON OBLAST CRIMEA Annexed in 2014 Belgorod Kharkiv Kupyansk Izyum Lyman Bakhmut Avdiivka Melitopol ZAPORIZHYA OBLAST BLACK SEA RUSSIA Svatove Kremenna LUHANSK OBLAST Severodonetsk Luhansk Donetsk DONETSK OBLAST Mariupol 80km 50 miles 1 2 3 4 Russian control before Feb 24 Russian control Russian advances Cities controlled Claimed Ukrainian counteroffensives 1 Kherson Oblast: Ukrainian troops break through Russian defences near town of Dudchany 2 Zaporizhya NPP: Russian officials release director of nuclear power plant following talks with IAEA 3 East: Ukrainian forces push into Russian-held Luhansk region, moving towards Kremenna and Svatove 4 Russia: Federation Council – upper house of parliament – follows state Duma in ratifying annexation of four Ukrainian provinces Sources: Institute for the Study of War, Reuters © GRAPHIC NEWS