How territory has shifted in Ukraine war
 
Ukraine marks its Independence Day after two and a half years of war with almost 20% of the country under Russian control and thought to be holding over 1,250 square km of Russian territory

Jan 2022
Crimea annexed by Russia 2014, Russian proxy republics in Donbas (Luhansk and Donetsk)
Occupied 7%
Kyiv

Feb-Mar 2022: Invasion
Russian president Vladimir Putin launches full-scale invasion to “demilitarise and denazify Ukraine”
27%
Kyiv

Apr-Nov 2022
Russia annexes Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhya and Kherson. Ukraine forces Russian troops out of Chernihiv, Kyiv, Kharkiv and Kherson
18%

Aug 2024
Kyiv

CRIMEA
DONETSK
ZAPORIZHYA
KHERSON
LUHANSK

Russian control
Aug 2024
Mar 2022
Jan 2022

Kharkiv
Dnipro
Lviv
Chernihiv
Kursk
Rostov- on-Don

Ukrainian incursion
200,000 Russians evacuated

Donetsk
Zaporizhya NPP
Mariupol
Odesa
Sevastopol
Kyiv

CASUALTIES: UKRAINE

Military: Unknown 
Civilians: 35,160 including 11,520 dead

RUSSIA
Military: Estimated 550,000
including 120,000 dead





BELARUS
RUSSIA
UKRAINE
POLAND
SLOVAKIA
HUNGARY
MOLDOVA
ROMANIA
200km
125 miles
BLACK SEA

Sources: Institute for the Study of War, BBC, Associated Press, OHCHR
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