Here are some of the major developments in a year of Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II.
into humiliating retreat on several fronts in the second half of last year, Moscow has rebounded with small but steady advances in eastern Ukraine.A TV screen shows Russian President Vladimir Putin announcing the beginning of the military operation in February 2022.
Russian forces made slow, steady gains in a phase of the conflict that inflicted a heavy toll on both sides. By June, the Ukrainian government said up to 120 of its soldiers were being killed every day. Russia did not disclose daily casualties. The siege ended when the last Ukrainian defenders, holed up inside the giant Azovstal steelworks, surrendered.As the war churned on, the United States and Europe began giving Ukraine increasingly powerful and longer-range weaponry and used sanctions to try to hamper Russia’s military machine.
Moscow says it is targeting productive capacity that is critical to Ukraine’s military; Ukraine says the strikes, far from eastern and southern front lines, only serve to harm civilians and amount to war crimes.Missile barrages notwithstanding, by the end of last year, Russia’s invasion was clearly faltering and it drafted some 300,000 reservists to solidify its hold on remaining occupied territory, about a fifth of Ukraine.
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