
At dawn on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine with aerial bombardments across the country and the deployment of ground troops.
Within days, Russian troops captured the key port of Berdyansk and the capital of Kherson region, very close to the Black Sea, as well as several cities near Kyiv, in north-central Ukraine.
But their attempt to conquer the capital Kyiv ran into resistance from Ukrainian forces, stimulated by their president Volodymyr Zelensky, who became a military commander.
Dramatic footage on the streets of Kyiv: a Russian armored car ran into a car driven by a civilian (February 25, 2022, the second day of the war unleashed by Vladimir Putin):
UPDATED VIDEO: Another perspective: a Russian tank crushed a car of peaceful Ukrainians! #UkraineWAtatsi #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/ICZTEttcHx
— Honkpilled (@honkpillexd) February 25, 2022
A rocket hit a residential building in Kyiv (February 26, 2022). Powerful images – how to see them from the inside:
#Ukraine Rocket attack on the building #Kyiv captured by a video surveillance camera#UkraineRussia #UkraineRussiaConflict #Ukraine #UkraineWAtatsi pic.twitter.com/ikqbFgeU4R
— SUBHASH CHARAN (@Gadhwara27) February 26, 2022
#Operational_information from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine
“Let’s fix another war crime against the civilian population of Ukraine. Rescuers are evacuating residents of high-rise buildings on Lobonovsky Avenue, 6A, where on February 26, a projectile hit an apartment building on the 17th and 18th floors.” pic.twitter.com/MC9PndcZXm
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) February 26, 2022
Footage after the explosions in the residential quarters of the capital of Ukraine (March 2022):
#Kyivthis is the main thing #Klychko arrived at the scene of the explosion #Podilskyi area.
According to preliminary information, one person died, 19 were injured, including four children.
Six residential buildings, a kindergarten and a school were damaged. pic.twitter.com/Yo1ER5c8MD
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 18, 2022
Kyivans are hiding in the subway
Kyiv after the bombings
Ruined buildings, piles of rubble and burned Russian military equipment – the image of the town of Borodyanka, located approximately 60 kilometers from Kyiv, where fierce battles took place (March 2022):
#Barodyanka, #Kyiv region. Fierce battles raged there for several days. pic.twitter.com/Ec47CXwpeN
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 3, 2022
BBC video #Barodyanka after devastating bombings. I’m keeping all of these images here in this feed because I want to pay tribute to all of these cities and all of their residents. No one will be forgotten! Please help stop the dying #NoFlyZoneUkraine tweet to your government pic.twitter.com/5edkVNocAb
— Lesia Vasylenko (@lesiavasylenko) March 4, 2022
On April 21, the Kremlin announced the capture of the city of Mariupol, a strategic port on the Sea of Azov that Russian forces have surrounded and bombarded since early March, cutting off vital infrastructure, water, electricity and heating.
The capture of this city will allow Russia to provide a link between its forces in Crimea – the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014 – and the separatist regions of Donbas.
Image of a pregnant woman after the shelling of the maternity hospital in Mariupol
But about two thousand Ukrainian fighters, barricaded in the underground labyrinth of the Azovstal plant, along with hundreds of civilians, continued to fight. They held out until mid-May, when they surrendered.
Image of a Ukrainian fighter in Azovstal
According to Kyiv, the city of Mariupol was 90% destroyed, and at least 20,000 people died there.
Footage from the theater in Mariupol bombed by the Russians in March 2022, when hundreds of civilians were hiding there:
The first shots of the interior of the Mariupol Drama Theater after the attack of Russian troops on the building. pic.twitter.com/u2Hj3gcdXw
— Aldin uD83CuDDE7uD83CuDDE6 (@aldin_aba) March 25, 2022
Drone footage of battles in Mariupol – Russian tanks among high-rise buildings fire guns at houses (April 2022):
Video of a Russian/DPR tank firing its main gun at a building in Mariupol. https://t.co/7huqBgVG8n pic.twitter.com/9lmf6OboUO
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) April 13, 2022
A picture of one of the huge cemeteries in Mariupol, where most of the crosses have only numbers, not names:
Nous nous sommes rendus la semaine dernière dans l’un des cimetières de #Mariupol. Nous y avons vu des thousands of recent tombs that are recent. Why are there numbers over 3000 on the side of the cemetery @infofrance2 @franceinfo @FranceTVMoscow @lacroixluc #Mariupol pic.twitter.com/KBORDwMsJD
— Oleksandra Dalsbaek (@alexdalsbaek) June 9, 2022
The moment of surrender of Ukrainian fighters in Azovstal, the last bastion of the defense of Mariupol (May 2022):
Leaving #Ukrainian military village #Azovstal.
Heroes uD83DuDC99uD83DuDC9B pic.twitter.com/0gWWYL4Z28
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) May 17, 2022
The evacuation of hundreds of Ukrainian servicemen, many wounded, from the Azovstal metallurgical plant (May 2022) to cities controlled by Russian forces probably marked the end of the longest and bloodiest battle of the war in Ukraine. Mariupol was left a ruined city after the Russian siege, which, according to Ukraine, took the lives of tens of thousands of people:
The Ukrainian military announced the evacuation of the last troops from the Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol, signaling the end of the longest and bloodiest battle of Russia’s war in Ukraine so far https://t.co/B71rl2FvNQ pic.twitter.com/o99xW7a1ll
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 17, 2022
Image from the small town of Maryinka in eastern Ukraine, a town of almost 10,000 people before the war, next to the metropolis of Donetsk (December 2022):
War in Europe 2022. Russian tank in Marinets, Donetsk region. Russia’s war of attrition against Ukraine will continue until Moscow achieves its goals of conquering Ukraine, creating a new geopolitical bloc, and destroying the European security order. pic.twitter.com/7P38LdD8S6
— Velina Chakarova (@vtchakarova) December 17, 2022
Terrible footage: Russians allegedly killed all men aged 18 to 60 in Buch (April 2022):
Terrifying videos appeared from the Kyiv suburb of Buchi, where Russian troops shot civilians.
We still only know about a fraction of the war crimes that Russia has already committed. The extent of Russian brutality remains to be seen. pic.twitter.com/JVCcPUFpSD
— Oleksiy Sorokin (@mrsorokaa) April 2, 2022
Bucha Street after the departure of the Russians
Tribute to the dead civilians of Buchi
Photo of dead civilians of Irpiny who tried to escape
The Russians fired two rockets at a train station in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, full of civilians trying to flee the war (April 2022):
2 rockets struck
— EuroMaydan (@EuroMaydan) April 8, 2022
Trenches near the city of Bakhmut, where Ukrainian infantrymen hold back Russian troops (October 2022):
No, this is not footage from Sam Mendes’ new film about the Battle of Verdun or the Somme. We are talking about the trenches near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, which the Ukrainian infantry have been holding for several months under heavy fire from the Russians. pic.twitter.com/ZDjqi6wFMb
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) October 15, 2022
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