UKRAINE MAP. One year after the start of the war in Ukraine, a look back at the evolution of the fighting on the ground, month by month.
On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin launched an offensive againstUkraine. Russia declared war on its neighboring country and has not turned back since. In 52 weeks, the conflict has evolved and the fighting has, over the days, concentrated on a single part of the country, while the whole territory was bombarded at the beginning of the attack. Both the east, which was already at war, the south and the north faced the men sent by the Kremlin. Mariupol on the shores of the Sea of Azov, Kharkiv not far from Donbass and of course kyiv, the capital, as well as hundreds of other cities, saw the alarm sirens ringing.
After all-out attacks during the first weeks, the fighting then concentrated in eastern and southern Ukraine in early spring. Russia was then gaining territory, in a context of deep concern over the seizure of the Zaporijia nuclear power plant. The dynamic was reversed at the end of the summer with an effective Ukrainian counter-offensive in the east, allowing Volodymyr Zelensky’s troops to regain ground, near the Donbass. In recent weeks, the situation seems frozen in eastern Ukraine, around Donbass, the Sea of Azov and part of the Black Sea, where the war is concentrated.
Map of the evolution of the war in Ukraine
Using the various situation maps produced by the French Ministry of Defence, discover how the war has evolved since February 24, 2022, month by month. What better way to realize the location of the fighting, the advances and setbacks of each camp after 365 days of a struggle that is not about to stop.
In an address to the Russian nation on February 21, Vladimir Putin announced “to settle step by step, carefully and methodically, the objectives that arise before us”, thus affirming that he wanted to continue the war, “to ensure the security of our country, to eliminate threats from a neo-Nazi regime that has existed in Ukraine since the 2014 coup,” he said. For his part, on February 24, Volodymyr Zelensky promised that Ukraine “will do everything to achieve victory this year” and that it will not stop “until the Russian murderers are punished.”