Northern Ukraine campaign
The northern Ukraine campaign was a theater of operation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It involved attacks by Russia across the Russo-Ukrainian and Belarusian–Ukrainian borders, beginning on 24 February 2022, for control of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, and the surrounding areas of Kyiv Oblast and northern regions Zhytomyr Oblast, Sumy Oblast, and Chernihiv Oblast. Kyiv is the seat of the Ukrainian government and the headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Image: Russian bombardment of telecommunications antennas in Kiev (3to 4)
Image: Antonov Airport after Russian invasion of Ukraine and Mriya (3to 4)
Image: Fire at Kryuchki petroleum depot due to missile strike (3to 4)
Image: Battle of Hostomel, 04.03.2022, Skirmish Aftermath
Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that started in 2014. The invasion became the largest attack on a European country since World War II. It is estimated to have caused tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties and hundreds of thousands of military casualties. By June 2022, Russian troops occupied about 20% of Ukrainian territory. From a population of 41 million in January 2022, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. Extensive environmental damage caused by the war, widely described as an ecocide, contributed to food crises worldwide.
Russian-backed separatist forces during the War in Donbas in 2015
Russian military build-up around Ukraine as of 3 December 2021
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with members of the Ukrainian Army on 18 June 2022
The Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft ever built, was destroyed during the Battle of Antonov Airport.