UKRAINIAN WAR

Timeline
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FEBUARY Russian President Vladimir

Putin launched an invasion
of Ukraine, citing the need
2022 to protect ethnic Russians
and prevent Kyiv's NATO
membership.

MARCH
Russia claims control of the southern
city of Kherson and the rest of the
Kherson region. Russian forces become
stuck near Kyiv and suffer losses to MARCH 2022
Ukrainian artillery and drones. Russia
strikes a theater in Mariupol, killing
hundreds of people.

APRIL
Russian forces start to withdraw from Kyiv
and other areas, but leave behind hundreds of
civilian bodies. In response, Russia attacks a
2022 military airfield in Crimea, and Ukraine launches
a sudden counterattack in the northeastern
Kharkiv region.

MAY
Russian forces capture the giant
Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, cutting
Ukraine off from the Azov coast and
securing a land corridor from the 2022
Russian border to Crimea. Finland and
Sweden submit their applications to
join NATO.

SEPTEMBER
Ukrainian forces launch a successful
counteroffensive in Kharkiv, prompting Putin
to mobilize 300,000 reservists and stage
2022 illegal referendums in Donetsk, Luhansk,
Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia. Putin then signs
documents to annex the four regions at a
Kremlin ceremony.

Russia announces a pullback

from the city of Kherson
under a Ukrainian
NOVEMBER
counteroffensive, abandoning
2022
the only regional center
Moscow captured.

DECEMBER Ukraine uses drones to target two bases for

long-range bombers deep inside Russian
2022 territory. Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelenskyy visits the United States to secure
Patriot air defense missile systems and
other weapons and addresses Congress.

2023
RECAP