February 24, 2022. Day 1.
Thursday morning Vladimir Putin Announces the launch of a alleged peculiar military operation. In a tv message, he claims that he intends to defend the Donbas population from “genocide” and announces “demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine”. The plan of a fast triumph is nothing after a month. The Russians retreat from Kiev, leaving hundreds of bodies of murdered residents in Bucza, Irpien and another sub-capital towns.
June 3, 2022. Day 100.
"Russia achieves tactical successes in Donbasa, but no of its strategical goals have been met, and any possible success will require immense investments and it will most likely take a long time," the British Ministry of Defence summarizes. In mid-May, the last heroic defenders of Azowstal in Mariupol surrender. A period earlier Ukrainians sank Moscow, a flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
September 11, 2022. Day 200.
The Russians are making massive air strikes on Ukrainian cities. president Volodymyr Zelenski recalls that "Russian terrorists stay terrorists and attack critical infrastructure" alternatively than military targets due to the fact that their goal is "to leave people without light and heat". On the same day, Ukrainians take control of the Kharkiv circuit, recovering territories lost on the first day of war.
December 21, 2022. Day 300.
Zelenski visits Bachmut defenders lying in Donbasa on the front line. The ruins of the city attacked for months by the Russians will not be seized by the enemy until May 2023. This is not the President's first journey east of the country. In mid-November, he just visited the liberated Cherson.
March 30, 2023. Day 400.
Vladimir Putin signs a decree on spring enlistment to the military, providing for the appointment of 147,000 Russians from 18 to 27 years of age to basic service. The General Staff in Moscow, which intends to increase the army to 1.5 million, ensures that no of the conscripts will enter the region of the alleged peculiar military operation.
July 8, 2023. Day 500.
The UN publishes the latest report. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 9177 civilians have been killed as a consequence of armed action and 15,993 have been injured. Ukraine's armed forces have been offensive in the Zaporosian direction for a month, and the Russians, trying to prevent it, blow up the dam on Dniepra in Nowa Kachowce on June 6. At the end of June, Russia shakes up a two-day "prigozine rebellion".
October 16, 2023. Day 600.
At night and in the morning, Russians again launch rockets and kamikaze drones on Ukrainian cities. Advisor to president Zelenski Mikhail Podolak, tweeting "600 days of a great, devastating war in the centre of Europe", does not hide that "the price of ending this war is besides high".
January 24, 2024. Day 700.
War is simply a denial of humanity – says Pope Francis during the general audience in Vatican. Referring to the global Holocaust Memorial Day celebrated in 4 days, he adds that “it is never possible to justify hatred and violence.”
May 3, 2024. Day 800.
During a gathering with border guards, president Zelenski warns against a "new war stage". – The occupier is preparing to effort to grow offensive activities. And we all together... we gotta do everything we can to thwart the Russian offensive," he says.
August 11, 2024. Day 900.
The Russian army has been fighting Ukrainian troops in its own territory for almost a week. “Russia brought war on Ukraine and Russia should feel it for itself,” explains Zelenski, the unexpected operation in the Kursk Oblast. It is only after 2 months that the Russians begin to reflect the occupied areas, at the same time intensifying the attack in the east of Ukraine, where, despite the immense losses of their own, they occupy further towns.
November 19, 2024. Day 1000.
– This aggression regular destroys our buildings, social infrastructure, kills people and forces them to leave their homes – he says on the eve of 1000. Deputy Minister for Social and Territorial improvement of Ukraine Alexi Riabikin. – Currently, the harm rate in Ukraine is around $500 billion. It's a immense sum. And this sum grows all day.
