Southern Ukraine campaign
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The southern Ukraine campaign is an ongoing theatre of operation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on 24 February 2022. The Russian military invaded Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine from Russian-occupied Crimea, quickly entering Mykolaiv Oblast and Zaporizhzhia Oblast amid battles with the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
A Russian T-72 tank trapped on a bridge demolished by the Ukrainians in Kalynivka, Mykolaiv Oblast, 2 March
Burned vehicles in Mykolaiv after Russian attacks
Remnants of a shelled hospital in Mariupol, 9 March 2022
A destroyed Russian BMP-3 near Mariupol, 7 March 2022
Vitalii Skakun
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Vitalii Volodymyrovych Skakun was a Ukrainian marine combat engineer who was posthumously awarded the Order of the Gold Star. He sacrificed his life in the Russian invasion of Ukraine while blowing up a bridge in Henichesk to slow the advance of Russian troops during the Southern Ukraine campaign.
Sign on the Skakun's Bridge in Prague