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On February 24 2022, the world awoke to news that Russian tanks had rolled into Ukraine.
This page is regularly updated with the latest maps, charts, videos and satellite imagery showing military, environmental and humanitarian aspects of the war in Ukraine.
Latest on Ukraine’s counteroffensive
Ukrainian forces have established several fortified bridgeheads on the Russian-occupied left bank of the Dnipro river, in their most significant territorial advance for weeks in an otherwise stalled counteroffensive.
Ukraine’s military confirmed the advances on Friday, without naming where they were. “The Ukrainian marines, in co-operation with other units of the defence forces, managed to gain a foothold on several bridgeheads,” the statement said.
A western official said on Thursday that Ukraine had moved “elements of three brigades” to the Russian-occupied east bank of the river. Russian forces had not been able to push them back and the Ukrainians had established a “significant foothold” in the area, the person added.
About 70,000 Ukrainian solders have been killed and 130,000 injured since Russia’s full-scale invasion, according to US estimates. The Russian military is believed to have lost roughly 120,000 troops, with another 280,000 wounded.
June-September 2023: Ukraine’s counteroffensive progress
With slow progress on its counteroffensive and Russia showing no sign of quitting, Ukraine faces a long war, which will require long-term support from allies — who are also focused on the Israel-Hamas war.
In preparation for Ukraine's counteroffensive, Russia spent months fortifying the almost 1,000km frontline across the territory it occupied
On June 11, Ukrainian forces breached R In preparation for Ukraine's counteroffensive, Russia spent months fortifying the almost 1,000km frontline across the territory it occupied
On June 11, Ukrainian forces breached Russia’s first line of less fortified defences and liberated three villages in the south of the Donetsk region
Over the next two days, four furt ussia’s first line of less fortified defences and liberated three villages in the south of the Donetsk region 
Over the next two days, four further villages were liberated
On July 17 there was an Ukrainian attack on the Crimea bridge, which connects the occupied peninsula to Russia. The bridge partially collapsed after reports of an explosion, killing two people. 
On August 4 Ukraine’s security services and navy carried out sea drone strikes outside the port of Novorossiysk, a major navy base and oil-exporting terminal located east of Crimea
On August 24 an elite squad of Ukrainian troops raided Crimea's western coast and killed 30 Russian soldiers, in the first official incursion into the peninsula occupied by Russia since 2014
On August 28, Ukrainian forces penetrated the first line of Russia's southern defences in the Zaporizhzhia region, liberating the village of Robotyne despite Russia's heavily mined defensive lines.
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June 2023: Destruction of Kakhovka dam
Following the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine on June 6, floodwaters devastated towns and villages downstream, with dozens of people perishing in the disaster amid patchy evacuation efforts in Russian-controlled territories. The flood also narrowed Ukraine’s attack options in its counteroffensive, which got under way in early June.
The Kakhovka dam spanning the Dnipro river in southern Ukraine was breached on June 6 causing immediate flooding
May 2023: Russian fortifications
Ukraine’s months-long preparation for its summer counteroffensive to try to wrest back occupied territory allowed Russia to fortify its positions along the almost 1,000km frontline.
Satellite images reviewed by the Financial Times and analysed by military experts revealed a multi-layered Russian network of anti-tank ditches, mazes of trenches, concrete “dragon’s teeth” barricades, steel “hedgehog” obstacles, spools of razor wire and minefields.
In preparation for Ukraine’s looming counteroffensive, Russia has spent months significantly fortifying the almost 1,000km frontline across the roughly 100,000 sq km of Ukrainian territory it currently occupies.
There, Russian forces have created a multi-layered defence composed of anti-tank ditches, zig-zag trenches, concrete “dragon’s teeth” barricades, steel “hedgehog” obstacles, razor wire and minefields.
Russia has paid special attention to the Berdyansk airfield near the Sea of Azov. The airfield is known to be a hub for Russian military aircraft.
Russia constructed layers of “dragon’s teeth”, trenches and other obstacles across an extensive swath of occupied territory near the eastern cities of Severodonetsk, Lysychansk and Popasna, after capturing them in May and June 2022. A Ukrainian breakthrough there would face significant challenges.
Russia also erected a strong defensive line along the border of eastern Luhansk province to the north, where Ukrainian forces are thought to want to break through somewhere around the town of Kupyansk.
May 2023: Battle for Bakhmut
On May 21, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin hailed his first major victory since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, claiming that Russian forces had captured the eastern city of Bakhmut, despite Kyiv insisting the battle “was not over”.
Putin said the Wagner paramilitary group had seized the Ukrainian city with help from Russia’s armed forces after months of bloody fighting that had caused more than 100,000 casualties and reduced the city to ruins.
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Earlier in the year, satellite images from the Vuhledar area, south of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, revealed the extent of damage in areas that had suffered intense artillery shelling.
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The impact of shelling: Petrivka, eastern Ukraine
Satellite photos taken Aug 24 2022 and Feb 10 2023
September-November 2022:Ukraine retakes Kherson
A counteroffensive led to Ukraine liberating 3,000 sq km of territory in just six days, its biggest victory since it pushed Russian troops back from Kyiv in March.
Ukraine’s forces continued to push east, capturing the transport hub of Lyman, near the north-eastern edge of the Donetsk province, which it wrestled from Russian control on October 1.
The hard-fought victory came after nearly three weeks of battle and set the stage for a Ukrainian advance towards Svatove, a logistics centre for Russia after its troops lost the Kharkiv region in the lightning Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Ukrainian forces advanced into Kherson on November 11 after Russia said its forces had completed their withdrawal from the southern city, sealing one of the biggest setbacks to Putin’s invasion.
Kyiv’s progress and Moscow’s chaotic retreat across the Dnipro river under Ukrainian artillery fire meant Russia surrendered the only provincial capital it had captured in the war, as well as ceding strategic positions.
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March 2022: Russia fails to capture Kyiv
The Russians were thwarted in Kyiv by a combination of factors, including geography, the attackers’ blundering and modern arms, as well as Ukraine’s ingenuity with smartphones and pieces of foam mat.
The refugee crisis
The number of Ukrainians fleeing the conflict has made it one of the largest refugee crises in modern history.
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Sources: Institute for the Study of War, Rochan Consulting, FT research.
Cartography and development by Steve Bernard, Chris Campbell, Caitlin Gilbert, Cleve Jones, Emma Lewis, Joanna S Kao, Sam Learner, Ændra Rininsland, Niko Kommenda, Alan Smith, Martin Stabe, Neggeen Sadid, Liz Faunce and Dan Clark
Based on reporting by Roman Olearchyk, Christopher Miller, Ben Hall, Max Seddon, John Paul Rathbone, John Reed, Guy Chazan, Henry Foy, Mehul Srivastava, Polina Ivanova and Tim Judah.
A before and after photo of Petrivka, eastern Ukraine which shows extensive damage from shelling between Aug 24 2022 c
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