UKRAINE MAP. Situation maps, March 24, 2022

UKRAINE MAP. The war in Ukraine has been going on for a month now, but the positions seem more frozen than ever, the Russians have now been camped in their positions for several days. Up-to-date location maps…

[Mis à jour le 24 mars 2022 à 17h39] The war in Ukraine, launched by Vladimir Putin on February 24, has turned into a war of positions, with Russian troops advancing slowly, even getting bogged down in some places, in a country in resistance. Vladimir Putin’s army seems to be suffering from supply problems and has been unable to synchronize the operations carried out simultaneously on several fronts since the end of February.

Russian forces now appear to have adopted a defensive strategy, conducting limited and localized ground attacks, with no noticeable advance. The Ukrainian forces for their part carried out several counter-attacks which, without being massive, succeeded in disrupting the encirclement of the capital, kyiv. In the south, the battle of Mariupol is still fierce, however, the Ukrainian resistance limiting the Russian advance by defending the city sector by sector, street by street.

Since the start of the conflict, maps have played a decisive role in understanding the Russian military operation and in monitoring the situation live. Here are the best sources available with up-to-date maps.

News agency cards

Several agencies provide the press with daily updated maps and charts. This is the case of Agence France Presse in France, but also of specialized services such as Visactu again, or Graphic News, an independent international agency entirely financed by media publishers. Most of these maps are updated at the end of the day (depending on the update dates, the maps presented below may date back to the day before).

The map of the Ukrainian site Liveuamap

One of the most valuable documents currently available online is the map drawn up by Liveuamap.coman independent Ukrainian platform that compiles and cross-checks information from media sources and social media and allows you to view, in real time or almost, the clashes and strikes that follow one another in the country.

Another interactive map published on MapHub allows to visualize the attacks of Russia and the acts of defense of Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict. The tool, which lists hundreds of events to date, is overseen by the Center for Information Resilience (CIR), an independent UK-based not-for-profit company that is also dedicated to identifying, tackling and exposing influence operations. The CIR aims to “raise awareness of the threat that influence operations, including disinformation, pose to democracy and objective truth, and to help counter them”.

A few days after the start of the war in Ukraine, the French Ministry of Defense set up a situation update and a map detailing the theater of operations. The map is available on the Ministry of Defense portal and is updated daily.

Situation maps from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW)

Daily reports and maps by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) supply the press (including Le Monde) with recent and precise information. The Institute for the Study of War is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public policy research organization. It “promotes an informed understanding of military affairs through trusted research, reliable analysis, and innovative education.”

Media cards in France and abroad

In France, reference sites such as Le Monde or Le Figaro offer to follow the advance of Russian troops via a series of maps based themselves on reliable data from the sources mentioned above. The Decoders of the World offer a map of the evolution of the Russian invasion from day to day, equipped in particular with a slider to navigate through the chronology of the conflict. Le Figaro has established several maps based on information from the Liveuamap site, the Graphicnews agency and other press agencies such as AFP.

On Twitter, the maps and situation reports of the historian and former soldier Michel Goya are among the most complete. These documents are also available on his blog. Abroad, the sites of the New York Times and the Washington Post, the two leading American media, also offer up-to-date maps.

The Battle of kyiv Mapped

The battle of kyiv, in particular, has been mapped by several media in France and around the world. Visactu, a French agency specializing in the production of press infographics, regularly offers updates on the situation in the Ukrainian capital. Le Monde, Le Figaro, the New York Times or the Washington Post are among the media that present the best summaries of the situation, such as the Kyiv Independenta newspaper from the Ukrainian capital which regularly reports on the situation.

In the UK, the BBC also has a page to follow the fighting in Ukraine. Some maps also allow you to find out about the situation in the capital. Another British media, the FinancialTimes also declines his cards until the clashes in kyiv.