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Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is Ukraine's capital and largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Odesa, and Dnipro. The official language is Ukrainian. Ukraine covers about 600,000 km2 (230,000 sq mi), with around 32 million people.

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  1. 896 CEBattle of Southern BuhSouthern BugThe Battle of Southern Buh occurred near the banks of the eponymous river (today in Ukraine). The result was a great Bulgarian victory which forced the Magyars of the Etelköz realm to abandon the steppes of southern Ukraine, as well as their aspirations of subduing Danube Bulgaria, retreating to the newly occupied lands beyond the Carpathian Mountains, centering on Pannonia, from where they would stage their next…Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  2. 1223Battle of the Kalka RiverKalchykThe Battle of the Kalka River was fought between the Mongol Empire, whose armies were led by Jebe and Subutai, and a coalition of several Rus' principalities, including Kiev and Galicia-Volhynia, and the Cumans under Köten. They were under the joint command of Mstislav the Bold and Mstislav III of Kiev.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  3. 1240Siege of KievKyivThe Siege of Kiev by the Mongols took place between 28 November and 6 December 1240, and resulted in a Mongol victory. It was a heavy morale and military blow to the Principality of Galicia–Volhynia, which was forced to submit to Mongol suzerainty, and allowed Batu Khan to proceed westward into Central Europe.Source: Wikidata (country)
  4. c. 1320Battle on the Irpin RiverBelgorod KievskyThe Battle on the Irpin River was a semi-legendary battle between the armies of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Principality of Kiev. According to the story, Gediminas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, conquered Volhynia before turning his attention to Kiev. He was opposed by Prince Stanislav of Kiev allied with the Principality of Pereyaslavl and Bryansk.Source: Wikidata (country)
  5. 1399Battle of the Vorskla RiverVorsklaThe Battle of the Vorskla River was fought on August 12, 1399, between the Tatars of the Golden Horde, under Edigu and Temür Qutlugh, and the armies of Tokhtamysh and a large Crusader force led by Grand Duke Vytautas the Great of Lithuania. The battle ended in a decisive Tatar victory for the Golden Horde.Source: Wikidata (country)
  6. 1485 – 1503Polish–Ottoman WarWild FieldsThe Polish–Ottoman War of 1485–1503 was a prolonged series of conflicts between the Kingdom of Poland and the Ottoman Empire. The conflict formally lasted eighteen years, but during this period hostilities were ceased on several occasions due to temporary treaties being signed between the warring parties.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  7. 1621Battle of KhotynKhotynThe Battle of Khotyn or Battle of Chocim or Khotyn War (in Turkish: Hotin Muharebesi) was a combined siege and series of battles which took place from 2 September to 9 October 1621 between a Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, commanded by the Grand Hetman of Lithuania Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, against an invading Ottoman Imperial army, led by Sultan Osman II, which was stopped until the first autumn snows.Source: Wikidata (country)
  8. 1633 – 1634Polish–Ottoman WarUkraineThe Polish–Ottoman War of 1633–1634 was a military conflict between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire, fought primarily by the forces of the Polish Crown under Grand Crown Hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski.Source: Wikidata (country)
  9. 1648Battle of KorsuńKorsun-ShevchenkivskyiThe Battle of Korsuń (Ukrainian: Битва під Корсунем, Корсунська битва, Polish: Bitwa pod Korsuniem, Korsuńska bitwa; 25–26 May 1648) was the second significant battle of the Khmelnytsky Uprising.Source: Wikidata (country)
  10. 1648Battle of Zhovti VodyPiatykhatky RaionThe Battle of Zhovti Vody or Yellow Waters (Ukrainian: Битва під Жовтими Водами; Polish: Bitwa pod Żołtymi Wodami; 29 April — 16 May 1648) was the first significant battle of the Khmelnytsky Uprising.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  11. 1648 – 1657Khmelnytsky UprisingUkraineThe Khmelnytsky Uprising, also known as the Cossack–Polish War, Khmelnytsky insurrection, Cossack Revolution, or, in Ukraine, as the National Liberation War, was a successful Cossack rebellion with elements of a religious war that took place between 1648 and 1657 in the eastern territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.Source: Wikidata (country)
  12. 1649Treaty of ZborivZborivThe Treaty of Zboriv was signed on 18 August 1649, after the Battle of Zboriv when the Crown forces of about 35,000, led by King John II Casimir of Poland, clashed against a combined force of Cossacks and Crimean Tatars, led by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Khan İslâm III Giray of Crimea respectively, which numbered about 50,000.Source: Wikidata (country)
  13. 1651Battle of BerestechkoBerestechkoThe Battle of Berestechko (28 June – 10 July 1651) was fought between the Cossack Hetmanate and Crimean Khanate against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as a part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising.Source: Wikidata (country)
  14. 1654Pereiaslav AgreementPereiaslavThe Pereiaslav Agreement or Pereyaslav Agreement (Ukrainian: Переяславська рада, romanized: Pereiaslavska Rada, lit. 'Pereiaslav Council', Russian: Переяславская рада) was an official meeting that convened for a ceremonial pledge of allegiance by Zaporozhian Cossacks to Russian tsar Alexis (r. 1645–1676) in the town of Pereiaslav in central Ukraine, in January 1654.Source: Wikidata (country)
  15. 1658Treaty of HadiachHadiachThe Treaty of Hadiach (Polish: Unia hadziacka; Ukrainian: Гадяцький договір, romanized: Hadyatsʹkyy dohovir) was a treaty signed on 16 September 1658 in Hadiach, Cossack Hetmanate (present-day Ukraine) between representatives of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Stanisław Kazimierz Bieniewski representing Poland and Kazimieras Liudvikas Jevlaševskis representing Lithuania) and Ukrainian Cossacks (represented by…Source: Wikidata (country)
  16. 1659Battle of KonotopKonotopThe Battle of Konotop or Battle of Sosnivka was fought between a coalition led by the Hetman of Zaporizhian Cossacks Ivan Vyhovsky and cavalry units of the Russian Tsardom under the command of Semyon Pozharsky and Semyon Lvov, supported by Cossacks of Ivan Bezpaly, on 29 June 1659, near the town of Konotop, Ukraine, during the Russo-Polish War (1654–1667).Source: Wikidata (country)
  17. 1666 – 1671Polish–Cossack–Tatar WarUkraineThe Polish — Cossack–Tatar War (Ukrainian: Польсько-козацько-татарська війна, Polish: Wojna polsko - kozacko-tatarska) was fought between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Polish-allied Zaporozhian Cossacks and the Ottoman-allied states of the Cossack Hetmanate and the Crimean Khanate. It occurred in the aftermath of the Russo–Polish War of 1654–1667 and was a prelude to the Ottoman–Polish War of 1672—1676.Source: Wikidata (country)
  18. 1672 – 1676Polish–Ottoman WarRight-bank UkraineThe Polish–Ottoman War of 1672–1676 was fought by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire. It ended with the Treaty of Żurawno, by which the Commonwealth ceded control of most of its territories in Central Ukraine to the Ottomans. It was a prelude to the Great Turkish War.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  19. 1673Battle of KhotynKhotynThe Battle of Khotyn or Battle of Chocim, also known as the Hotin War, took place on 11 November 1673 in Khotyn, where the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth under the Grand Hetman of the Polish Crown John Sobieski defeated Ottoman Empire forces, with Moldavian and Wallachian regiments, led by Hüseyin Pasha.Source: Wikidata (country)
  20. 1676 – 1681Russo-Turkish WarChyhyrynThe Russo-Turkish War of 1672–1681, also known as the Chyryhyn campaigns, was a war between the Tsardom of Russia and Ottoman Empire, caused by Turkish expansionism in the second half of the 17th century.Source: Wikidata (country)
  21. 1683 – 1699Polish–Ottoman WarAustriaThe Polish–Ottoman War or the War of the Holy League was the Polish side of the conflict that is otherwise known as the Great Turkish War. The conflict began with a Polish victory at the Battle of Vienna in 1683 and ended with the Treaty of Karlowitz, which restored to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth lands lost in the previous Polish–Ottoman War (1672–76)).Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  22. 1686 – 1700Russo-Turkish WarCrimeaThe Russo-Turkish War of 1686–1700 was part of the joint European effort to confront the Ottoman Empire. The larger European conflict was known as the Great Turkish War.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  23. 1709Battle of PoltavaPoltavaThe Battle of Poltava fought on 8 July 1709, was the decisive and largest battle of the Great Northern War. A Russian army under the command of Tsar Peter I defeated a Swedish army commanded by Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld. The battle would lead to the Swedish Empire losing its status as a European great power and also marked the beginning of Russian supremacy in eastern Europe.Source: Wikidata (country)
  24. 1769KoliivshchynaRight-bank UkraineThe Koliivshchyna (Ukrainian: Коліївщина; Polish: koliszczyzna) was a major haidamaky rebellion that broke out in Right-bank Ukraine in June 1768, caused by the dissatisfaction of peasants with the treatment of Orthodox Christians by the Bar Confederation and serfdom, as well as by hostility of Cossacks and peasants to the local Polonized Ruthenian nobility and ethnic Poles.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  25. 1788Siege of OchakovOchakivThe siege of Ochakov (Russian: осада Очакова) or the siege of Özi (Turkish: Özi Kuşatması), now Ochakiv, Ukraine, was one of the major events of the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792). The Ochakov Fortress had the appearance of an irregular quadrangle, consisting of low bastions with a dry moat and glacis on the dry side, and a simple stone wall on the sea side.Source: Wikidata (country)
  26. 1790Siege of IzmailIzmailThe siege of Izmail (Turkish: İzmail Kuşatması), also called the storming of Izmail (Russian: Штурм Измаила), was a military action fought in 1790 on the Danube near the Black Sea during the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) and simultaneously the Austro-Turkish War (1788–1791).Source: Wikidata (country)
  27. 1792Battle of ZieleńceKhmelnytskyi OblastThe Battle of Zieleńce was a battle in the Polish–Russian War of 1792, in defence of the Polish Constitution of 3 May 1791. The battle took place on 18 June 1792, between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Army of Józef Poniatowski and an Imperial Russian Army group under the command of General Irakly Morkov, which was a part of General Mikhail Krechetnikov's Russian forces invading the Polish–Lithuanian…Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  28. 1826Akkerman ConventionBilhorod-DnistrovskyiThe Akkerman Convention was a treaty signed on October 7, 1826, between the Russian and the Ottoman Empires in the Budjak citadel of Akkerman (present-day Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Ukraine). It imposed that the hospodars of Moldavia and Wallachia be elected by their respective Divans for seven-year terms, with the approval of both Powers.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  29. 1853 – 1856Crimean WarCrimeaThe Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia from October 1853 to February 1856. Geopolitical causes of the war included the Eastern question (the decline of the Ottoman Empire), the expansion of Russia in the preceding Russo-Turkish wars, and the British and French preference to preserve the Ottoman Empire to maintain the balance of power…Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  30. 1854Battle of BalaclavaBalaklavaThe Battle of Balaclava, fought on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War, was part of the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55), an attempt by the British, French and Ottoman allies to capture the port and fortress of Sevastopol, Russia's principal naval base on the Black Sea.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  31. 1854Battle of InkermanInkermanThe Battle of Inkerman was fought during the Crimean War on 5 November 1854 by the allied armies of Britain and France against the Imperial Russian Army. The battle broke the will of the Russian Army to defeat the allies in the field, and was followed by the siege of Sevastopol.Source: Wikidata (country)
  32. 1854Charge of the Light BrigadeBalaklavaThe Charge of the Light Brigade was a military action undertaken by British light cavalry against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War, resulting in many casualties to the cavalry. On 25 October 1854, the Light Brigade, led by Lord Cardigan, mounted a frontal assault against a Russian artillery battery which was well-prepared with excellent fields of defensive fire.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  33. 1854 – 1855Siege of SevastopolSevastopolThe Siege of Sevastopol (at the time called in English the Siege of Sebastopol) lasted from October 1854 until September 1855, during the Crimean War. The allies (French, Sardinian, Ottoman, and British) landed at Eupatoria on 14 September 1854, intending to make a triumphal march to Sevastopol, the capital of the Crimea, with 50,000 men.Source: Wikidata (country)
  34. 1855Battle of EupatoriaYevpatoriyaThe Battle of Eupatoria (Russian: Штурм Евпатории, lit. 'Storm of Eupatoria'; Turkish: Gözleve Muharebesi) occurred on 17 February 1855 during the Crimean War when the army of the Russian Empire unsuccessfully attempted to capture the Crimean port city of Eupatoria held by the forces of the Ottoman Empire.Source: Wikidata (country)
  35. 1855Battle of KinburnKinburnThe Battle of Kinburn, a combined land-naval engagement during the final stage of the Crimean War, took place on the tip of the Kinburn Peninsula (on the south shore of the Dnieper–Bug estuary in what is now Ukraine) on 17 October 1855.Source: Wikidata (country)
  36. 1855Battle of MalakoffSevastopolThe Battle of Malakoff (French: Bataille de Malakoff, Russian: Бой на Малаховом кургане) or the Storming of the Malakhov Kurgan (Russian: Штурм Малахова кургана) was a series of French attacks against Russian forces on the Malakoff redoubt. The first attack was unsuccessful, and occurred on 18 June 1855; subsequent capture of the redoubt was on 8 September 1855.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  37. 1855Battle of the ChernayaChorna RiverThe Battle of the Chernaya (also Tchernaïa; Russian: Сражение у Черной речки, Сражение у реки Черной, literally: Battle of the Black River) was fought at the Traktir Bridge on the Chernaya River during the Crimean War on August 16, 1855. The battle was fought between Russian, French, Piedmontese and Ottoman troops. The Chernaya River is on the outskirts of Sevastopol, near the line of the allies' siege of the city.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  38. 1863 – 1864January UprisingCongress PolandThe January Uprising was an insurrection against Russian imperial rule in the Congress Kingdom of Poland and adjacent lands of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Sparked by nationalist aspirations, political repressions, religious differences and opposition to conscription, it was organized by the clandestine Central National Committee and subsequently by the revolutionary Polish National Government.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  39. 1914Battle of GaliciaLvivThe Battle of Galicia, also known as the Great Battle of Galicia, was a major battle between Russia and Austria-Hungary during the early stages of World War I in 1914. In the course of the battle, the Austro-Hungarian armies were severely defeated in several encounters and forced out of Galicia, while the Russians captured Lemberg (now Lviv) and, for approximately nine months, ruled Eastern Galicia until their…Source: Wikidata (country)
  40. 1914Battle of LimanowaGaliciaThe Battle of Limanowa-Łapanów took place from 1 December to 13 December 1914, between the Austro-Hungarian Army and the Russian Army near the town of Limanowa (40 kilometres (25 mi) south-east of Kraków).Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  41. 1915Great RetreatKingdom of Galicia and LodomeriaThe Great Retreat was a strategic withdrawal and evacuation on the Eastern Front of World War I in 1915. The Imperial Russian Army gave up the salient in Galicia and Congress Poland.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  42. 1916Brusilov offensiveGaliciaThe Brusilov offensive (Russian: Брусиловский прорыв, romanized: Brusilovskiĭ proryv, lit. 'Brusilov's breakthrough') of June to September 1916 was the Russian Empire's greatest feat of arms during World War I and among the most lethal offensives in world history.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  43. 1917Battle of ZborovZborivThe Battle of Zborov (Зборівська битва, Zborivska bytva in Ukrainian, Зборовское сражение in Russian, Schlacht bei Zborów in German, bitva u Zborova in Czech, bitka pri Zborove in Slovak) was a part of the Kerensky Offensive (the last Russian offensive in World War I, taking place in July 1917).Source: Wikidata (country)
  44. 1917Kerensky offensiveGaliciaThe Kerensky offensive (Russian: Наступление Керенского), also called the summer offensive, the June offensive (Russian: Июньское наступление) in Russia, or the July offensive in Western historiography, took place from 1 July [O.S. 18 June] to 19 July [O.S. 6 July] 1917 and was the last Russian offensive of World War I, named after the minister of war, Alexander Kerensky.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  45. 1917 – 1921Ukrainian–Soviet WarUkraineThe Ukrainian–Soviet War (Ukrainian: українсько-радянська війна, romanized: ukrainsko-radianska viina) is the term commonly used in post-Soviet Ukraine for the events taking place between 1917 and 1921, nowadays regarded essentially as a war between the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Bolsheviks (Russian SFSR and Ukrainian SSR).Source: Wikidata (country)
  46. 1917 – 1921Ukrainian War of IndependenceUkraineThe Ukrainian War of Independence, also referred to as the Ukrainian–Soviet War in Ukraine, lasted from March 1917 to November 1921 and was part of the wider Russian Civil War. It saw the establishment and development of an independent Ukrainian republic, most of which was absorbed into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic between 1919 and 1920.Source: Wikidata (country)
  47. 1918Battle of BakhmachBakhmachBattle of Bakhmach (Bitva u Bachmače in Czech), was one of the last battles on the Eastern Front in World War I between the Entente-backed Czechoslovak Legion, Soviet Russia and the Central Powers occupying Ukraine after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The battle lasted from March 8 to March 13, 1918, over the city of Bakhmach and was the last engagement in World War I for the Soviets.Source: Wikidata (country)
  48. 1918Battle of KievKyivThe Battle of Kiev of February (O.S. January) 1918 was a Bolshevik military operation of Petrograd and Moscow Red Guard formations directed to capture the capital of Ukraine. The operation was led by Red Guards commander Mikhail Artemyevich Muravyov as part of the Soviet expeditionary force against Kaledin and the Central Council of Ukraine.Source: Wikidata (country)
  49. 1918Battle of KrutyKrutyThe Battle of Kruty (Ukrainian: Бій під Крутами, romanized: Bii pid Krutamy) took place on January 29 or 30, 1918, near Kruty railway station (today the village of Pamiatne, Nizhyn Raion, Chernihiv Oblast), about 130 kilometres (81 miles) northeast of Kiev, Ukraine, which at the time was part of Nizhyn Povit of Chernihiv Governorate.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  50. 1918Operation FaustschlagBelarusThe Operation Faustschlag or Unternehmen Faustschlag (lit. 'Operation Fist Punch'), also known as the Eleven Days' War, was a Central Powers offensive in World War I. It was the last major offensive on the Eastern Front.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  51. 1918Unification ActSofiiska SquareThe Unification Act (Ukrainian: Акт Злуки, romanized: Akt Zluky, IPA: [ˈɑkt ˈzlukɪ]; or Велика Злука, Velyka Zluka, IPA: [ˈwɛlɪkɐ ˈzlukɐ], literally "Great Union") was an agreement signed by the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian People's Republic in Sophia Square in Kyiv on 22 January 1919.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  52. 1920Kiev offensiveUkraineThe 1920 Kiev offensive (or Kiev expedition, Polish: wyprawa kijowska) was a major part of the Polish–Soviet War. It was an attempt by the armed forces of the recently established Second Polish Republic led by Józef Piłsudski, in alliance with the Ukrainian People's Republic led by Symon Petliura, to seize the territories of modern-day Ukraine which mostly fell under Soviet control after the October Revolution as…Source: Wikidata (country)
  53. 1939Battle of LwówLvivThe Battle of Lwów (sometimes called the Siege of Lwów) was a World War II battle for the control over the formerly Polish city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) between the Polish Army and the invading Wehrmacht and the Red Army. The city was seen as the key to the so-called Romanian Bridgehead and was defended at all costs.Source: Wikidata (country)
  54. 1940Katyn massacreKatynThe Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of Poles carried out by the Soviet Union between April and May 1940. Though the killings also occurred in the NKVD prisons in Kalinin, Kharkiv and elsewhere, the massacre is named after the Katyn forest, where some of the mass graves were first discovered by Nazi German forces in 1943.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  55. 1941Babi Yar massacreBabi YarBabi Yar (Russian: Бабий Яр) or Babyn Yar (Ukrainian: Бабин Яр) is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by Nazi Germany's forces during its campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. The first and best documented of the massacres took place on 29–30 September 1941, in which some 33,771 Jews were murdered.Source: Wikidata (country)
  56. 1941Battle of BrodyBrodyThe Battle of Brody (other names in use include Battle of Dubna, Battle of Dubno, Battle of Rovne, Battle of Rovne-Brody) was a tank battle fought between the 1st Panzer Group's III Army Corps and XLVIII Army Corps (Motorized) and five mechanized corps of the Soviet 5th Army and 6th Army in the triangle formed by the towns of Dubno, Lutsk and Brody between 23 and 30 June 1941.Source: Wikidata (country)
  57. 1941Battle of KievKyivThe First Battle of Kiev or Kiev operation, known as the Battle of Kiev on the German side (German: Schlacht bei Kiew), was a major battle that resulted in an encirclement of Soviet troops in the vicinity of Kiev during World War II, the capital and most populous city of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. This encirclement is the largest in the history of warfare by number of troops.Source: Wikidata (country)
  58. 1941Battle of UmanZelena BramaThe Battle of Uman (15 July – 8 August 1941) was the World War II German offensive in Uman, Ukraine against the 6th and 12th Soviet Armies. In a three-week period, the Wehrmacht encircled and annihilated the two Soviet armies.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  59. 1941Fântâna Albă massacreStarovovchynetska silska radaThe Fântâna Albă massacre took place on 1 April 1941 in Northern Bukovina when up to 200 civilians were killed by Soviet Border Troops as they attempted to cross the border from the Soviet Union to Romania near the village of Fântâna Albă, now Staryi Vovchynets in Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine.Source: Wikidata (country)
  60. 1941First Battle of KharkovKharkivThe First Battle of Kharkov was a battle that took place from 20 to 24 October 1941 for control of the city of Kharkov, located in the Ukrainian SSR, during the final stage of Operation Barbarossa. The battle was fought between the German 6th Army, part of Army Group South, and the Soviet Southwestern Front.Source: Wikidata (country)
  61. 1941Kamianets-Podilskyi massacreKamianets-PodilskyiThe Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre was a World War II mass shooting of Jews carried out in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa, by the German Police Battalion 320 along with Friedrich Jeckeln's Einsatzgruppen, Hungarian soldiers, and the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police.Source: Wikidata (country)
  62. 1941Siege of OdessaOdesaThe siege of Odessa, known to the Soviets as the defence of Odessa, lasted from 8 August until 16 October 1941, during the early phase of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.Source: Wikidata (country)
  63. 1941 – 1942Siege of SevastopolSevastopolThe siege of Sevastopol, also known as the defence of Sevastopol (Russian: Оборона Севастополя, romanized: Oborona Sevastopolya) or the Battle for Sevastopol (German: Schlacht um Sewastopol;Source: Wikidata (country)
  64. 1942Second Battle of KharkovKharkivThe Second Battle of Kharkov or Operation Fredericus was an Axis counter-offensive in the region around Kharkov against the Red Army Izium bridgehead offensive conducted 12–28 May 1942, on the Eastern Front during World War II.Source: Wikidata (country)
  65. 1943Battle of KievKyivThe Second Battle of Kiev, known on the German side as the Defensive battle in the Kiev-Zhitomir area (German: Abwehrschlacht im Raum Kiew-Shitomir), was a part of a much wider Soviet offensive in Ukraine known as the Battle of the Dnieper involving three strategic operations by the Soviet Red Army and its Czechoslovak units and one operational counterattack by the Wehrmacht, which took place between 4 November and…Source: Wikidata (country)
  66. 1943 – 1944Dnieper–Carpathian offensiveRight-bank UkraineThe Dnieper–Carpathian Operation (Russian: Днепровско-Карпатская операция), known on the German side as the Defensive battles in Southern Ukraine and west of Kiev (German: Abwehrschlachten in der Südukraine und westlich Kiew), was a strategic offensive executed in right-bank, southern, and western Ukraine by the Soviet 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Ukrainian Fronts, along with the 2nd Belorussian Front, against the German…Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  67. 1943Donbas strategic offensiveDonbasThe Donbas strategic offensive was the second of two strategic operations of the Soviet Red Army on the Eastern Front of World War II, with the goal of liberating the Donetsk Basin, or Donbas, from the forces of Nazi Germany.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  68. 1943Kerch–Eltigen operationKerch PeninsulaThe Kerch–Eltigen operation was a World War II amphibious offensive made in November 1943 by the Red Army as a precursor to the Crimean offensive (8 April-12 May 1944), with the object of defeating and forcing the withdrawal of the German forces from the Crimea.Source: Wikidata (country)
  69. 1943Third Battle of KharkovKharkivThe Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of battles on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken by Nazi Germany's Army Group South against the Soviet Red Army, around the city of Kharkov from 19 February to 15 March 1943.Source: Wikidata (country)
  70. 1944Battle of Korsun–CherkassyCherkasyThe Battle of Korsun–Cherkassy (Russian: Корсунь-Шевченковская операция; Ukrainian: Корсунь-Шевченківська операція), also known as the Battle of the Korsun–Cherkassy Pocket, was a World War II battle fought from 24 January to 16 February 1944 in the course of the Soviet Dnieper–Carpathian offensive in Ukraine, following the Korsun–Shevchenkovsky offensive.Source: Wikidata (country)
  71. 1944Crimean offensiveCrimeaThe Crimean offensive (8 April – 12 May 1944), known in German sources as the Battle of the Crimea, was a series of offensives by the Red Army directed at the German-held Crimea. The Red Army's 4th Ukrainian Front engaged the German 17th Army of Army Group South Ukraine, which consisted of Wehrmacht and Romanian formations. The battles ended with the evacuation of Crimea by the Germans.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  72. 1944Kamenets–Podolsky pocketKamianets-PodilskyiThe Kamenets-Podolsky pocket (German: Kessel von Kamenez-Podolsk) was a key part of a major Soviet Proskurov-Chernovtsy Operation (Russian: Проскуровско-Черновицкая Операция), known on the German side by several names. It was conducted by the Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front against the German 1st and 4th Panzer Armies, and Hungarian forces of Army Group South in March-April 1944.Source: Wikidata (country)
  73. 1944Lvov-Sandomierz OffensiveWestern UkraineThe Lvov–Sandomierz offensive or Lvov–Sandomierz strategic offensive operation (Russian: Львовско-Сандомирская стратегическая наступательная операция) was a major Second World War operation by the Soviet Red Army to force German troops from Ukraine and Eastern Poland. The operation was launched in mid-July 1944, and successfully completed by the end of August.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  74. 1991Belovezha AccordsBiałowieża ForestThe Agreement on the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (officially), or unofficially the Minsk Agreement and best known as the Belovezha Accords, is the agreement declaring that the Soviet Union (USSR) had effectively ceased to exist and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in its place as an organization created by the same Union Republics.Source: Wikidata (country)
  75. 2004 – 2005Orange RevolutionUkraineThe Orange Revolution (Ukrainian: Помаранчева революція, romanized: Pomarancheva revoliutsiia) was a series of protests that led to political upheaval in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005.Source: Wikidata (country)
  76. 2010Kharkiv PactKharkivThe Agreement between Ukraine and Russia on the Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine, widely referred to as the Kharkiv Pact (Ukrainian: Харківський пакт) or Kharkov Accords (Russian: Харьковские соглашения), was a treaty between Ukraine and Russia whereby the Russian lease on naval facilities in Crimea was extended beyond 2017 until 2042, with an additional five-year renewal option in exchange for a multiyear discounted…Source: Wikidata (country)
  77. 2013 – 2014EuromaidanMaidan NezalezhnostiEuromaidan (Ukrainian: Євромайдан, romanised: Yevromaidan, IPA: [ˌjɛu̯romɐjˈdɑn], lit. 'Euro Square'), or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protests in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kyiv.Source: Wikidata (country)
  78. 2013 – 2014Revolution of DignityMariinskyi ParkThe Revolution of Dignity (Ukrainian: Революція гідності, romanized: Revoliutsiia hidnosti), also known as the Maidan Revolution or the Ukrainian Revolution, took place in Ukraine in February 2014 at the end of the Euromaidan protests. Scores of protesters were killed by government forces during clashes in the capital Kyiv.Source: Wikidata (country)
  79. 2014Russo-Ukrainian warSea of AzovThe Russo-Ukrainian war began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia occupied Crimea and annexed it from Ukraine. It then supported Russian separatist armed groups who started a war in the eastern Donbas region against Ukraine's military. In 2018, Ukraine declared the region to be occupied by Russia.Source: Wikidata (country)
  80. 20142014 Russian annexation of CrimeaCrimeaIn February and March 2014, Russia invaded the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine, occupied it, and then annexed it after an illegitimate referendum. This took place amid the uncertainty that immediately followed Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity. The invasion marked the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Crimea's annexation has been described as an instance of modern Russian imperialism.Source: Wikidata (country)
  81. 2014 – 2022War in DonbasDonbasThe war in Donbas, also called the Donbas war, was a phase of the Russo-Ukrainian war in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine. The war began in April 2014, when Russian-backed paramilitaries began an uprising against the Ukrainian government, seized territory and declared independent states. Ukraine's military launched an operation against them, but failed to fully retake the territory.Source: Wikidata (country)
  82. 2014Battle of IlovaiskIlovaiskThe Battle of Ilovaisk started on 7 August 2014, when the Armed Forces of Ukraine and pro-Ukrainian paramilitaries began a series of attempts to capture the city of Ilovaisk from pro-Russian insurgents affiliated with the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and detachments of the Russian Armed Forces.Source: Wikidata (country)
  83. 2014Battle of KramatorskKramatorskA series of armed skirmishes and confrontations between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists affiliated with the Donetsk People's Republic took place from 12 April until 5 July 2014, and is known as the Battle of Kramatorsk.Source: Wikidata (country)
  84. 2014Battle of MariupolMariupolDuring the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine in the aftermath of the Revolution of Dignity, the city of Mariupol, in Donetsk Oblast, saw skirmishes break out between Ukrainian government forces, local police, and separatist militants affiliated with the Donetsk People's Republic. Government forces withdrew from Mariupol on 9 May 2014 after heavy fighting left the city's police headquarters gutted by fire.Source: Wikidata (country)
  85. 2014First Battle of Donetsk AirportDonetsk International AirportThe First Battle of Donetsk Airport took place between fighters associated with the Donetsk People's Republic and Ukrainian government forces that took place at Donetsk International Airport on 26–27 May 2014, as part of the war in Donbas that began after the 2014 Revolution of Dignity. A second battle broke out at the airport on 28 September 2014.Source: Wikidata (country)
  86. 2014 – 2015Second Battle of Donetsk AirportDonetsk International AirportThe Second Battle of Donetsk Airport was an engagement between the Ukrainian military and Russian military and its proxy forces of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) during the war in Donbas. An earlier battle in May 2014 had left Donetsk International Airport in Ukrainian control.Source: Wikidata (country)
  87. 2014Siege of SlovianskSlovianskThe siege of Sloviansk was conducted by Ukraine between 12 April 2014 and 5 July 2014. It began when Sloviansk was seized by the fifty-strong unit of heavily armed Russian militants led by Russian citizen Igor Girkin.Source: Wikidata (country)
  88. 2015Battle of DebaltseveDebaltseveThe Battle of Debaltseve was a military confrontation in the city of Debaltseve, Donetsk Oblast, between the pro-Russian separatist forces of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), and the Ukrainian Armed Forces, starting in mid-January 2015 during the war in the Donbas region.Source: Wikidata (country)
  89. 2015Battle of MarinkaMarinkaThe Battle of Marinka was a short battle in the war in Donbas in and around Marinka, Donetsk Oblast which took place on 3 June 2015. Ukrainian forces fought the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic's (DPR) Republican Guard and Pyatnashka Brigade under Akhra Avidzba. The town of Marinka was briefly seized by DPR forces before it was recaptured by the Ukrainians.Source: Wikidata (country)
  90. 2015January 2015 Mariupol rocket attackMariupolA rocket attack on Mariupol was launched on 24 January 2015 by Russian and pro-Russian forces against the strategic maritime city of Mariupol, defended by Ukrainian government forces. Mariupol had come under attack multiple times in the previous year in the course of the War in Donbas, including in May–June 2014, when the city was under the control of Russian controlled forces; and in the September 2014 offensive.Source: Wikidata (country)
  91. 2020COVID-19 pandemicWorldwideA new coronavirus spreads worldwide. Lockdowns, remote work and fast-developed vaccines reshape daily life.Source: Wikidata (country)
  92. 2022Russo-Ukrainian warEastern EuropeOn 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the existing war between the two countries that began when Russia attacked Ukraine in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties. Russian troopsSource: Wikidata (country)
  93. 2022Bucha massacreBuchaThe Bucha massacre was the mass murder of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war by the Russian Armed Forces during the fight for and occupation of the city of Bucha as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photographic and video evidence of the massacre emerged on 1 April 2022, after Russian forces withdrew from the city. Testimonies had been emerging since early March.Source: Wikidata (country)
  94. 2022Siege of MariupolMariupolThe siege of Mariupol began on 24 February 2022, as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and lasted until 20 May. It saw fighting between the Russian Armed Forces (alongside the Donetsk People's Republic People's Militia) and the Ukrainian Armed Forces for control over the city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine.Source: Wikidata (country)
  95. 202210 October 2022 missile strikes on UkraineKyivRussia has launched waves of missile and drone strikes against energy in Ukraine as part of its invasion. From 2022 the strikes targeted civilian areas beyond the battlefield, particularly critical power infrastructure, which is considered a war crime. By mid-2024 the country only had a third of pre-war electricity generating capacity, and some gas distribution and district heating had been hit.Source: Wikidata (country)
  96. 20222022 Crimean Bridge explosionCrimean BridgeThe 2022 Crimean Bridge explosion occurred on 8 October 2022, at 6:07 a.m. A fire broke out on the Crimean Bridge as a result of an explosion of a bomb that had been loaded onto a truck. The explosion occurred on the road bridge, on the westbound vehicle lanes, from Russia to Kerch in Russian-occupied Crimea.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  97. 20222022 Kharkiv counteroffensiveUkraine eastOn 6 September 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a major counteroffensive against the Russian military during the Russo-Ukrainian war. As Ukraine announced the start of the Kherson counteroffensive in southern Ukraine in late August, Ukrainian forces also began a second counteroffensive in early September in Kharkiv Oblast, in eastern Ukraine.Source: Wikidata (country)
  98. 20222022 Kherson counteroffensivesouthern UkraineA military counteroffensive was launched by Ukraine on 29 August 2022 to expel Russian forces occupying the southern regions of Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts.Source: Wikidata (country)
  99. 20222022 Saky air base attackNovofedorivkaThe 2022 Saky air base attack was an event during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, when several large explosions occurred at the Saky airbase in the town of Novofedorivka, Crimea, on 9 August 2022. The military base was seized by Russian forces during the 2014 annexation of Crimea, part of the Russo-Ukrainian War. The explosions destroyed a number of Russian warplanes and caused substantial other damage.Source: Wikidata (country)
  100. 20229 March 2022 Mariupol Hospital 3 attackMariupolOn 9 March 2022, the Russian Air Force bombed Maternity Hospital No. 3, a hospital complex functioning both as a children's hospital and maternity ward in Mariupol, Ukraine, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, killing at least four people and injuring at least sixteen, and leading to at least one stillbirth.Source: Wikidata (country)
  101. 2022Battle of Antonov AirportHostomel AirportThe Battle of Antonov Airport, also known as the Battle of Hostomel Airport, was a military engagement which occurred at Antonov Airport in Hostomel, Kyiv Oblast, during the Kyiv offensive of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Source: Wikidata (country)
  102. 2022 – 2024Battle of AvdiivkaAvdiivkaThe Battle of Avdiivka was a major battle between the Russian and Ukrainian Armed Forces for control of Avdiivka, a city in Donetsk Oblast, during the Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present).Source: Wikidata (country)
  103. 2022 – 2024Battle of BakhmutBakhmutThe Battle of Bakhmut was a major battle between the Russian Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Armed Forces for control of the city of Bakhmut, during the eastern front, a theatre of the Russo-Ukrainian war. It is regarded by some military analysts to be the bloodiest battle since World War II.Source: Wikidata (country)
  104. 2022Battle of BerdianskBerdianskOn 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.Source: Wikidata (country)
  105. 2022Battle of BrovaryBrovaryDuring the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a military engagement took place at Brovary, an eastern suburb of Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine. Russian forces advanced west from southern Chernihiv Oblast and were engaged by Ukrainian forces. Russian forces withdrew from the area by 1-2 April 2022.Source: Wikidata (country)
  106. 2022Battle of BuchaBuchaThe Battle of Bucha was part of the Kyiv offensive in the Russian invasion of Ukraine for control of the city of Bucha. The combatants were elements of the Russian Armed Forces and Ukrainian Ground Forces. The battle lasted from 27 February to 31 March 2022 and ended with the withdrawal of Russian forces. The battle was part of a larger tactic to encircle Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine.Source: Wikidata (country)
  107. 2022Battle of CrimeaCrimeaBeginning in February 2022, the Battle of Crimea has consisted of a series of maritime and overland assaults and counter-assaults as part of Russo-Ukrainian war. Occupied by Russia since 2014, Crimea was a base for the subsequent Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast and Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast on February 24, 2022, the commencement of major hostilies between the two countries.Source: Wikidata (country)
  108. 2022Battle of DonbasDonbasThe Battle of Donbas was a military offensive that was part of the wider eastern front of the Russo-Ukrainian war. The offensive began on 18 April 2022 between the armed forces of Russia and Ukraine for control of the Donbas region. Military analysts consider the campaign to have been the second strategic phase of the invasion, after Russia's initial three-pronged attack into Ukraine.Source: Wikidata (country)
  109. 2022Battle of EnerhodarEnerhodarOn 4 March 2022, a military engagement took place between the Russian Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the city of Enerhodar in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, on the southern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Source: Wikidata (country)
  110. 2022Battle of HostomelHostomelDuring the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a military engagement was fought for control over the town of Hostomel between the Russian and Ukrainian armed forces. As part of an offensive on Kyiv, the Russian forces sought control over Hostomel, Bucha and Irpin in order to encircle and besiege the Ukrainian capital city Kyiv from the west.Source: Wikidata (country)
  111. 2022Battle of IrpinIrpinAs part of the Russian offensive on Kyiv during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a battle took place for control of the city of Irpin. The combatants were elements of the Russian Armed Forces and Ukrainian Ground Forces. By 28 March 2022, Ukrainian forces recaptured the city.Source: Wikidata (country)
  112. 2022Battle of IvankivIvankivOn 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.Source: Wikidata (country)
  113. 2022Battle of IziumIziumOn the eastern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a military engagement began in March 2022 between Russian and Ukrainian forces took place for control over the city of Izium, an important transportation node. The Russian military wanted to capture Izium so its forces in Kharkiv Oblast could link up with their troops in the Donbas region.Source: Wikidata (country)
  114. 2022Battle of KharkivKharkivThe Battle of Kharkiv was a military engagement that took place from February to May 2022 in and around the city of Kharkiv in Ukraine, as part of the eastern Ukraine offensive during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Source: Wikidata (country)
  115. 2022Battle of KhersonKhersonThe Battle of Kherson took place on 1 March 2022 on the southern front of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Russian forces captured the city on 1 March 2022 after brief combat with local territorial defense fighters, and then began a military occupation of the city.Source: Wikidata (country)
  116. 2022Battle of KonotopKonotopOn 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.Source: Wikidata (country)
  117. 2022Battle of KreminnaKreminnaThe Battle of Donbas was a military offensive that was part of the wider eastern front of the Russo-Ukrainian war. The offensive began on 18 April 2022 between the armed forces of Russia and Ukraine for control of the Donbas region. Military analysts consider the campaign to have been the second strategic phase of the invasion, after Russia's initial three-pronged attack into Ukraine.Source: Wikidata (country)
  118. 2022Battle of LysychanskLysychanskThe Battle of Lysychansk was a military engagement between Russia and Ukraine in the wider battle of Donbas of the eastern Ukraine campaign during the Russo-Ukrainian war. By May 2022, Lysychansk and its twin city of Sievierodonetsk were the two largest cities of the Luhansk Oblast not under Russian control.Source: Wikidata (country)
  119. 2022 – 2023Battle of MarinkaMarinkaDuring the Russo-Ukrainian war, a battle took place between Russian forces and Ukrainian forces for control over the city of Marinka.Source: Wikidata (country)
  120. 2022Battle of MykolaivMykolaiv OblastThe battle of Mykolaiv started on the night of 26 February 2022, as part of the southern Ukraine campaign during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It ended with Russian forces being repulsed from the city in March, and by April all but a few of its surrounding villages were back under Ukrainian control.Source: Wikidata (country)
  121. 2022Battle of OkhtyrkaOkhtyrkaOn 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.Source: Wikidata (country)
  122. 2022Battle of PopasnaPopasnaIn mid-April 2022, a military engagement began in Popasna between Ukrainian and Russian forces. On 7 May, the city came under Russian control.Source: Wikidata (country)
  123. 2022Battle of RubizhneRubizhneThe battle of Rubizhne was a major urban military battle in the eastern theatre of the Russo-Ukrainian war. The battle took place between 17 March and 12 May 2022. The city came under Russian control on 12 May.Source: Wikidata (country)
  124. 2022Battle of SievierodonetskSiverskodonetskThe Battle of Sievierodonetsk was a military engagement in the wider battle of Donbas of the eastern Ukraine campaign during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Source: Wikidata (country)
  125. 2022Battle of SlavutychSlavutychThe Battle of Slavutych was a military engagement that took place during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the city of Slavutych, a purpose-built settlement for workers in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The city came under attack by Russian forces in March 2022, forcing out Ukrainian defenders.Source: Wikidata (country)
  126. 2022 – 2023Battle of SoledarSoledarThe Battle of Soledar was a series of military engagements in and around the urban-type settlement of Soledar during the Battle of Donbas in the Russo-Ukrainian war.Source: Wikidata (country)
  127. 2022Battle of StarobilskStarobilskUkraine's easternmost regions, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv, have been the site of an ongoing theatre of operation since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in February 2022.Source: Wikidata (country)
  128. 2022Battle of SumySumyOn 24 February 2022, the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a military engagement took place in the city of Sumy, located near the Russia–Ukraine border. Ukrainian paratroopers and territorial defense forces began engaging Russian forces within the city, resulting in heavy urban fighting and the destruction of a Russian tank column.Source: Wikidata (country)
  129. 2022Battle of the Siverskyi DonetsDonetsA series of military engagements took place in May 2022, most notably from 5 to 13 May, near Lyman and Sievierodonetsk, on the eastern front of the Russo-Ukrainian war.Source: Wikidata (country)
  130. 2022Battle of TrostianetsTrostianetsOn 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.Source: Wikidata (country)
  131. 2022Battle of VasylkivVasylkivOn 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.Source: Wikidata (country)
  132. 2022Battle of VolnovakhaVolnovakhaThe battle of Volnovakha was a military engagement that lasted from 25 February 2022 until 12 March 2022 on the eastern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian and Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) forces engaged Ukrainian forces at the small city of Volnovakha in Donetsk Oblast, which was located close to the pre-invasion front line.Source: Wikidata (country)
  133. 2022 – 2024Battle of VuhledarVuhledarDuring the Russo-Ukrainian war, the first main Russian effort to capture Vuhledar, a city in Donetsk Oblast, took place in the early months of 2023, following an advance through the surrounding area the preceding year. Ukrainian commanders described these clashes as "the largest tank battle" of the war to date.Source: Wikidata (country)
  134. 2022Berdiansk port attackPort of BerdianskThe Berdiansk port attack was a strike carried out by Ukrainian forces against Russian Navy ships moored in the Port of Berdiansk on 24 March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Alligator-class landing ship Saratov was sunk, and one of the two Ropucha-class landing ships took damage but was able to leave the port.Source: Wikidata (country)
  135. 2022Bombing of BorodiankaBorodiankaThe town of Borodianka was bombed extensively by the Russian Armed Forces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Source: Wikidata (country)
  136. 2022Capture of ChernobylChernobyl Exclusion ZoneDuring the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was captured on 24 February, the first day of the invasion, by the Russian Armed Forces, who entered Ukrainian territory from neighbouring Belarus and seized the entire area of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant by the end of that day.Source: Wikidata (country)
  137. 2022Chaplyne railway station attackChaplyneOn 24 August 2022, the Independence Day of Ukraine, a railway station in Chaplyne, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, was shelled by the Russian Armed Forces resulting in at least 25 dead (including 2 children aged 6 and 11) and about 31 wounded.Source: Wikidata (country)
  138. 2022Chuhuiv air base attackChuhuivOn 24 February 2022, the Chuhuiv Air Base in Chuhuiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine was the target of an air strike by Russian forces as part of the eastern Ukraine offensive during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Source: Wikidata (country of the location)
  139. 2022Horlivka offensiveHorlivkaUkraine's easternmost regions, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv, have been the site of an ongoing theatre of operation since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in February 2022.Source: Wikidata (country)
  140. 2022Izium mass gravesIziumOn 15 September 2022, several mass graves, including one site containing at least 440 bodies, were found in woods near the Ukrainian city of Izium after it was recaptured by Ukrainian forces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The graves contained bodies of people who were killed by Russian forces.Source: Wikidata (country)
  141. 2022July 2022 Vinnytsia missile strikeVinnytsiaThe Russian Navy have launched several rocket attacks on Vinnytsia, Ukraine, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A Russian attack in July 2022 which killed 28 people including 3 children, received widespread condemnation and has been labeled as a war crime by EU officials.Source: Wikidata (country)
  142. 2022Luhansk Oblast campaignUkraine eastSince 19 September 2022, a military campaign has taken place along a frontline in western parts of Luhansk Oblast and far-eastern parts of Kharkiv Oblast amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The frontline has been referred to as the Svatove–Kreminna line or the Kupiansk–Svatove–Kreminna–Bilohorivka line, after the major settlements that lie along it.Source: Wikidata (country)
  143. 2022Mariupol theatre airstrikeMariupolOn 16 March 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces bombed the Mariupol theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine. It was used as an air raid shelter during the siege of Mariupol, sheltering a large number of civilians.Source: Wikidata (country)
  144. 2022Mykolaiv government building missile strikeMykolaivOn 29 March 2022, Russian forces carried out a missile strike (supposedly using Kalibr missile) on the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration's headquarters during the battle of Mykolaiv. It resulted in at least 37 deaths and 34 injuries.Source: Wikidata (country)
  145. 2022Odesa strikesOdesa OblastDuring the southern Ukraine offensive of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the city of Odesa and the surrounding region have been the target of shelling and air strikes by Russian forces on multiple occasions since the conflict began, fired in part by Russian warships situated offshore in the Black Sea. The city has also been targeted by Russian cruise missiles.Source: Wikidata (country)
  146. 2022Olenivka prison massacreVolnovakha correctional colonyOn 29 July 2022, Russian Armed Forces shelled a building housing Ukrainian prisoners of war in a Russian-operated prison in Molodizhne near Olenivka, Donetsk Oblast, as a false flag operation during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, killing 53 to 62 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) and leaving 75 to 130 wounded.Source: Wikidata (country)
  147. 2022Russian occupation of Mykolaiv OblastMykolaiv OblastParts of Ukraine's Mykolaiv Oblast came under military occupation by Russian forces as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Source: Wikidata (country)
  148. 2022Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructureUkraineRussia has launched waves of missile and drone strikes against energy in Ukraine as part of its invasion. From 2022 the strikes targeted civilian areas beyond the battlefield, particularly critical power infrastructure, which is considered a war crime. By mid-2024 the country only had a third of pre-war electricity generating capacity, and some gas distribution and district heating had been hit.Source: Wikidata (country)
  149. 2022Siege of ChernihivChernihivThe Siege of Chernihiv was a military engagement in the city of Chernihiv, in Chernihiv Oblast in the north of Ukraine. It began on 24 February 2022, as part of the northern Ukraine offensive, during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 4 April 2022, Ukrainian authorities stated that the Russian military had left Chernihiv Oblast.Source: Wikidata (country)
  150. 2022Snake Island campaignSnake IslandThe Snake Island campaign was a Russian military attack on and occupation of Snake Island, a small, strategically located Ukrainian island in the Black Sea. On 24 February 2022, the first day of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Navy attacked Snake Island and captured it along with its garrison, beginning a 126-day military occupation.Source: Wikidata (country)
  151. 2022Yavoriv military base attackYavoriv Proving GroundThe Yavoriv military base was attacked by Russian forces on 13 March 2022 as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The base is located near the city of Yavoriv, Lviv Oblast, less than 15 miles from the border with Poland.Source: Wikidata (country)
  152. 2022Zhytomyr attacksZhytomyr AirportMissile attacks on Zhytomyr began on 24 February 2022 as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Source: Wikidata (country)
  153. 20232023 Dnipro residential building airstrikeDniproOn 14 January 2023 at about 3:30 p.m., a Russian Kh-22 missile struck a nine-story residential building in Dnipro, Ukraine, on Naberezhna Peremohy St, 118, Sobornyi District in the right-bank part of the city, destroying one entrance and 236 apartments.Source: Wikidata (country)
  154. 20232023 Ukrainian counteroffensiveUkraine eastIn early June 2023, during the Russo-Ukrainian war, Ukraine launched an offensive (commonly, although technically incorrectly, referred to as a "counteroffensive") against Russian forces occupying its territory with a goal of breaching the front lines. Efforts were made in many directions, primarily in Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.Source: Wikidata (country)
  155. 2023Destruction of the Kakhovka DamKakhovka DamThe Kakhovka Dam was breached in the early hours of 6 June 2023, causing extensive flooding along the lower Dnieper river, also called the Dnipro, in Kherson Oblast. The dam was under the control of the Russian military, which had seized it in the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Source: Wikidata (country)
  156. 2023Hroza missile attackHrozaOn 5 October 2023, the Russian Armed Forces launched an Iskander ballistic missile at residents gathered in a memorial service at a shop and cafe in Hroza, Kupiansk Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, killing 59 and injuring at least 7 others. Among those killed in the airstrike was a six-year-old boy. The attack took place as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Source: Wikidata (country)
  157. 20242024 northern Kharkiv offensiveKharkiv OblastOn 10 May 2024, the Russian Armed Forces began an offensive operation in Ukraine's Kharkiv Oblast, shelling and attempting to breach the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of Vovchansk and Kharkiv. The Guardian reported that the offensive led to Russia's biggest territorial gains in 18 months.Source: Wikidata (country)
  158. 2024Battle of Chasiv YarDonetsk OblastThe Battle of Chasiv Yar is a military engagement in the Russo-Ukrainian war between the Russian Armed Forces and the Armed Forces of Ukraine for control of the city of Chasiv Yar and surrounding villages.Source: Wikidata (country)
  159. 2024Pokrovsk offensiveDonbasThe Pokrovsk offensive was a military operation in the Russo-Ukrainian war by the Russian Armed Forces with the primary goal of capturing the strategic cities of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad in western Donetsk Oblast.Source: Wikidata (country)
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