UKRAINE MAP. Situation maps, day 20

UKRAINE MAP. While the war that began in late February in Ukraine is already in its 20th day, Russian forces seem to be intensifying their strikes on the capital kyiv. The situation on the cards as of March 15, 2022…

[Mis à jour le 15 mars 2022 à 12h29] The war in Ukraine, launched by Vladimir Putin on February 24, turned into barely two weeks of invasion into a war of positions, Russian troops slowly advancing in a country in resistance. Several major cities have been taken or are besieged on several fronts across the country. On the 20th day of the conflict this Tuesday, March 15, 2022, fighting is still raging in several places:

• In Kyiv, several buildings were hit by strikes, including a 15-storey building and another 9-storey building, near the city center of the capital. kyiv, which Russian forces are trying to encircle from the west and east, has emptied at least half of its approximately three million inhabitants since the start of the conflict, assures AFP.
• West, the fighting began on Friday. A strike Monday against a television tower near Rivne (northwest) left 19 dead and nine injured, according to local authorities.
• To the East, the city of Kharkiv is still targeted by the Russian army. Artillery fire fell in the center of this city, the second largest Ukrainian city, according to the general staff of the army. The large city of Dnipro, which has remained relatively unscathed so far, saw its airport bombarded on Tuesday, with “massive destruction”, according to its mayor. Attacks which could initiate the rapprochement of troops from the south, mainly from Crimea, and from the east, in particular from the separatist territories of Donbass.
• In the south, the Russians are still trying to take Mariupol, a strategic port city on the Sea of ​​Azov, besieged for days. Heavy fighting is reported on Tuesday morning. 400,000 people survived there, deprived of water, electricity, heating and food, in nightmarish humanitarian conditions according to the Red Cross. The Russian army also says it has taken full control of the Kherson region, a city that fell on March 4. Attacks are also moving west, with attacks on Mikolaiv, ever closer to Odessa.

Several institutions and press agencies have made it possible to follow the situation since the beginning of the conflict with maps updated daily. We offer several of them below.

News agency cards

Since the start of the conflict, maps have played a decisive role in understanding the Russian military operation and in monitoring the situation live. 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.

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. 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.