Contemporary era · 2022

Battle of Konotop

On 24 February 2022, as part of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military crossed the Russia–Ukraine and Belarus–Ukraine borders into northern Ukraine, entering the oblasts (regions) of Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, and Zhytomyr. The Russian operations in northern Ukraine were initially launched as an attempt to capture Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine and the seat of the Ukrainian government.

Battle of Konotop
Battle of Konotop · Viewsridge, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
When
24 Feb 2022 – 26 Feb 2022
Where
Konotop
Era
Contemporary

Topics

Before and after

Text from the Wikipedia article Northern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, CC BY-SA 4.0