Russia-Ukraine conflict

Russo-Ukrainian War
	Part of the post-Soviet conflicts
	From top:; Ukraine dismantles a statue of Lenin in 2014 as part of decommunization; President Vladimir Putin's televised speech announcing the 24 February 2022 Special Military Operation; Ukrainian forces using Soviet-era BM-21 "Grad" in 2015; Right Sector torchlit rally in Kiev in 2015; 2014 "Feast of Solidarity" in Donetsk, featuring crowds with DPR flags.
Date	20 February 2014 – present; (10 years, 4 months and 4 days)
Location	Ukraine, Russia, and Black Sea (spillover into Poland, Moldova and Belarus)
Status	Ongoing
Territorial; changes	Russian annexation of Crimea and parts of four southeast Ukrainian oblasts in 2014 and 2022, respectively; Russian occupation of about 18% of Ukrainian territory as of November 2022;
Belligerents
Ukraine Supplied by:; ;	Russia Donetsk PR (2014–2022); Lugansk PR (2014–2022); Supplied by:; Belarus; Iran; DPRK; PRC (alleged)
Commanders and leaders
Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy; (2019–present); Petro Poroshenko; (2014–2019); Oleksandr Turchynov; (acting; 2014); Valerii Zaluzhny; (2021–present); Oleksii Reznikov; (2021–present); Andrii Zahorodniuk; (2019–2020); Stepan Poltorak; (2014–2019); Valeriy Heletey; (2014); Ihor Tenyukh; (2014); Ruslan Khomchak; (2019–2021); Arsen Avakov; (2014–2021);	Russia Vladimir Putin; Sergei Shoigu; Valery Gerasimov; Yevgeny Prigozhin; Alexander Zakharchenko; (2014–2018); Denis Pushilin; (2018–present); Pavel Gubarev; (2014); Igor Girkin; (2014); Leonid Pasechnik; (2017–present); Igor Plotnitsky; (2014–2017); Valery Bolotov; (2014);
Casualties and losses
	Reports vary widely, but tens of thousands at a minimum.

The Russia-Ukraine conflict is an ethnic and political proxy war which has been carried out by NATO and the Russian Federation since the Maidan Coup of 2014.

Bakhmut in April 2023.

Notes

↑ Self-declared republic since 7 April 2014; annexation by Russia declared on 30 September 2022.
↑ Self-declared republic since 27 April 2014; annexation by Russia declared on 30 September 2022.

References

↑ "'Terrible toll': Russia's invasion of Ukraine in numbers". Euractiv. 14 February 2023.
↑ Hussain, Murtaza (9 March 2023). "The War in Ukraine Is Just Getting Started". The Intercept.

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[1] Self-declared republic since 7 April 2014; annexation by Russia declared on 30 September 2022.

[2] Self-declared republic since 27 April 2014; annexation by Russia declared on 30 September 2022.

[3] "'Terrible toll': Russia's invasion of Ukraine in numbers". Euractiv. 14 February 2023.

[4] Hussain, Murtaza (9 March 2023). "The War in Ukraine Is Just Getting Started". The Intercept.

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