Battle for Ukraine. The main events and battles for the year of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Since then, there have been many important events that have changed the situation on the battlefield. Focus gathered the most important events and battles for the year of a full -scale war. On February 24, 2022, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched an offensive from several directions: in all directions, the Ukrainian army gave a rigid repeling to the occupiers, who went column of equipment, as a parade.
The only direction where the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was successful from the first days - the South. Kherson was quickly passionate, and Mariupol was surrounded by early March. In all other directions, the enemy received an unexpected repel for him, which led to huge losses in personnel and equipment in the first days of a full -scale invasion. Focus made a list of the main events of war with Russia in chronological order.
From the territory of Belarus and the Russian Federation in the direction of Kiev enemy troops went with a 12-fold advantage. Due to the skills of tactics and ingenuity of the military command of the Russian Army, Chernihiv, Sumy and Kiev were unable to capture Chernihiv. Chernihiv and sums in the environment were able to withstand, which broke the occupiers' plans for the rapid environment and the capture of the capital. We will remind, Kiev was given 3-4 days.
The forces of Ukraine's defense gave the enemy deep into the territory, after which they began to methodically destroy the supply lines. This led to the bleeding of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and on March 29, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation declared a "cardinal reduction of military activity" in northern Ukraine.
The next day after the departure of the Russian troops from the north of Ukraine in the liberated cities found that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were massively killed by civilians. Bucha, Gostomel, Irpin were the first victims of Russian cruelty. Peaceful people were tortured, held captive and killed. People were tied their hands and shot in the nape of the head. Previously, the Russians killed more than 420 civilians. Russian authorities still call it a provocation and production.
After the capture of Kherson's Russian invaders, their troops moved further to attack Nikolaev. From there, the road opened to the north - to Kryvyi Rih, and then to the west - to Odessa. Major General Dmitry Marchenko organized the defense of Nikolaev on his own initiative, and Ukrainian defenders rejected the enemy. The city continues to experience rocket strokes of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, but there is practically no land threat today.
The Ukrainian rocket complex of RK-360MC "Neptun" was struck by the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation "Moscow". The rocket cruiser was the largest ship in the Black Sea. On his board there were many air defense tools that allowed the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to control most of the Black Sea. The destruction of the cruiser "Moscow" allowed Ukraine to move to a further operation on the de -occupation of the island of Snake.
The Fleet of the Russian Federation has lost the flagship - for the first time since the war with Japan. The United States became the first country to announce the transfer of modern howitzers M777 to Ukraine. At that time, the event refused to supply heavy weapons of the Armed Forces to avoid escalation of the conflict. 155 mm howitzer "punched" the first invisible barrier, opening the way for other artillery units.
An important event during the war is the first meeting of the Ramstein contact group. More than 40 defense ministers of the world gathered at the American air base in Germany to discuss assistance to Ukraine. Ramstin's decisions are designed to help Ukraine win the war against the Russian Federation on the battlefield. Kharkiv is located 40 km from the Russian border, which, according to the plan of the Russian command, was to allow a rapid attack to capture the regional center.
In the first days, small groups of the enemy penetrated in Kharkiv, but by March they were thrown from the city, and then the forces of defense of Ukraine gradually knocked out the occupiers from the outskirts of Kharkiv. Finally, the land threat to the city disappeared after the September counter -offensive in Kharkiv region. However, the regional center, like Kherson with Nikolaev and Zaporizhzhia, continues to suffer from the missile strikes of the C-300 SCR.
One of the most important in the Russian-Ukrainian war was the battle for Mariupol. Ukrainian defenders were distracted by various estimates from 10 to 18 thousand Russian soldiers. This allowed the Armed Forces to defend Kiev and not allow the invaders to throw additional forces in Zaporozhye. Mariupol's defense ended on May 20, and there are hundreds of Ukrainian fighters from different units and brigades in captivity.
After the loss of the Moscow cruiser, Russian troops wanted to arrange a snake fortress on the island of a rich air defense. The Ukrainian military opposed this set of means. The temporarily captured island was bombarded aviation and drones, attacked artillery and landing. In the end, the Armed Forces forced the occupiers to flee, which allowed the opening of the grain agreement. The invaders called their escape from the island of Snake "gesture of goodwill.
" It was important for Russian troops to capture Severodonetsk, the Provisional Administrative Center of Luhansk Region. On May 26, the fighting has been in Severodonetsk. Russian troops staged a fire shaft, producing 60 thousand shells a day. However, the Ukrainian military was able to grind the best parts of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which was stormed before leaving the city to new positions. Western media reports that the supply of US RSSLs changed the course of war.
The Ukrainian military received high -precision and long -range weapons, which allowed to destroy Russian arms warehouses, command points, logistics units, the live power of the enemy and a number of other important military units of the Russian military machine. In the occupied Crimea in Novofedorovka there were several explosions.
The blow gave some important things for Ukraine - raising the moral spirit, fulfilling military tasks on the peninsula, and sowing panic among Russians who live in Ukrainian Crimea. After that, unknown UAVs repeatedly destroyed the military objects and goals of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Crimea. The Ukrainian political leadership conducted a successful operation on misinformation of the Russian troops.
Publicly stated about plans to counter -offensive in the Kherson region, the command of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation turned its most capable parts to the south of Ukraine. This allowed the offensive in the Kharkiv region, which led to the cascade collapse of the defense of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and almost complete liberation of Kharkiv region. The Armed Forces were able to release an important road knot of Izum and Kupyansk railway.
The troops of the Russian Federation, retreating, left hundreds of pieces of equipment. During the counter -offensive in Kharkiv region by September 5, the Ukrainian military reached the village of Old Caravan. During the next weeks, the Armed Forces were able to surround the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the estuary of Donetsk region, and on October 1 - to enter the outskirts of the city.
Such Ukraine was able to protect Slavyansk and Kramatorsk from the further promotion of the invaders from the north. After a number of successful operations of the Ukrainian Army, the Kremlin became clear that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation lacked personnel. Therefore, in Russia, they decided to go to the announcement of partial mobilization, which turned out to be indefinite. According to the plan, the invaders were mobilized 300,000 soldiers.
Some of them were immediately thrown into battle to replenish the loss. By February 2023, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was assault on the positions of Ukrainian troops "Living Waves" of Soldier's Soldier. In the morning of October 8, explosions were made on the Crimean Bridge, which connects the occupied peninsula with the mainland of the Russian Federation. As a result, two hemispheres of the motor part of the bridge collapsed, and a fire on its railway part occurred.
This attack complicated the logistics of Russian troops in the south of Ukraine and had a positive effect on the moral spirit of Ukrainians. Russia and personally Vladimir Putin accused Ukrainian special services of the Crimean Bridge. Russian troops, using aviation, land installations, ships, later and Iranian Dron-Kamikadze Shahd-136, began to attack Ukrainian critical infrastructure.
The first massive attack took place on October 10, when the Russian troops launched 84 missiles, 43 of which were knocked down. In Russia, they called the blow to the explosion on the Crimean bridge, and also stated that infrastructure objects were allegedly "legitimate goal".
The counter -offensive of the Ukrainian army in the Kherson region began on July 19, when the Armed Forces first struck a rocket strike on the Antonovsky Bridge - the main overpass that connected Kherson with the left -bank part of Ukraine. Since then, the Armed Forces were methodically beaten along the logistics paths of Russian troops, and gradually moved on the right side of the Kherson region, which allowed to protect Nikolaev.
Many analysts claim that the key to this war is located in the south of Ukraine, so the liberation of Kherson has become a strategic victory of Ukraine. This was preceded by constant strikes of the Armed Forces on the enemy logistics, as well as the slow but methodological promotion of Ukrainian troops to the city. Currently, Russian troops are constantly beating in Kherson, which is why some of the locals leave the regional center.
Russian troops left not only from Kherson, but also from the entire right -bank part of Ukraine, which will not allow the enemy to break the land corridor to Odessa. On December 5, Russia began with explosions at strategic aviation bases in Engels and Diagilevo in the Ryazan region. It is stated that the attack was carried out by the Ukrainian Razizh drone, which was specially upgraded for long -range blows. At least one Tu-95mC aircraft was damaged.
After that, there were other attacks that showed that the Russian Federation did not have a deep safe rear. It is important to emphasize that strategic aviation bases are part of the enemy nuclear triad. On December 5, the EU oil embargo came into force for the purchase of Russian oil. The supply was banned. A $ 60 price ceiling was also introduced per barrel. If the purchase price is higher, oil is forbidden to buy and transport.
The embargo has led to the fact that on February 1, the prices for the Urals oil fell from $ 85 to $ 50 a barrel. The event has lost its dependence, and India and China became the main buyers of products. One of the main battles is now unfolding around Bakhmut. Russia was able to saturate the troops with living force, and Wagner PVC was prisoners. The positions of the Ukrainian military storm the waves of the live power of the Russian invaders.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces does not exclude the withdrawal of troops from Bakhmut, since the main thing is to save the lives of Ukrainian fighters. According to the command, the forces of defense grind there the strongest parts of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The 155th and 40th brigades of the Marines of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation tried to storm the coal every time.
However, as a result of the last offensive in January and February 2023, they lost more than 100 pieces of equipment, of which about 36 tanks. The offensive of the Russians choked. According to British intelligence, these two brigades have completely lost their combat capability due to huge losses. In addition to the Marines, the carbon is stormed by Wagnerivtsi, Russian special forces and other parts of the occupation troops.
Due to regular massive shelling of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from Ukrainian infrastructure, the event began to strengthen Ukraine's air defense. By December 2022, the Armed Forces already had modern complexes of Iris-T and NASAMS, but they are not able to knock down ballistic missiles. American Patriot is able to intercept similar goals, but earlier such supplies seemed unrealistic because of the cost and complexity of the SCR.
Germany and the Netherlands will also be transferred to the complexes. On December 22, the General Staff of the Armed Forces reported to liquidate 100,000 Russian army fighters. This means that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation had not yet had wars in modern history with such losses, they have long exceeded Chechen wars, invasion of Georgia and other conflicts with the participation of the Russian army.
The Russian command has not published data on official losses for a long time, but some bloggers say that in fact professional soldiers in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are no longer left. The vast majority in the army are now mobilized. The total number of losses may exceed 200,000 people.
On January 4, French President Emmanuel Macron announced the transfer of combat armored vehicles AMX-10RC, after which the United States announced the transfer of their M2 Bradley and BTR Stryker, and Germany-BMP Marder. After that, the United Kingdom announced the transmission of Challenger 2 tanks and the US M1 Abrams. Under the pressure of the Allies, Germany allowed to supply Leopard 2 and the older Leopard to the Armed Forces.
Defense forces will be able to form a armored fist to release the occupied territories. Russian invaders lose more equipment daily than the Ukrainian army. According to the Oryx project, the documented losses of the Russian Federation are already more than 9,000 units. Such a number of technology does not have some countries in Europe. Ukrainian fighters destroy Russian equipment from all available weapons, from small copters with grenades to aviation.
Shortly before the anniversary of the start of a full -scale war, US President Joe Biden arrived in Ukraine. This unannounced visit became symbolic for Kiev. Baiden's visit to Kiev is the first trip of the American leader to Ukraine in 15 years, in addition, Joe Biden went for a violation of security protocols and came to the Ukrainian capital. It is also the first visit to the US President to a warfare state where critically important objects are not controlled by American fighters.