A month of war, massacre in the heart of Europe

It was supposed to be a blitzkrieg.

The 'small and subordinate' Ukraine, according to Vladimir Putin's predictions, would have succumbed in a few days, terrified by the Russian bear.

Instead, the Tsar fell into a nightmare: David against Goliath.

indiscriminate attacks on civilians, millions of people on the run, more than 120 children killed, almost a thousand total deaths, yet Ukraine resists, and in some cases counterattacks.

According to Kiev, 15,600 Russian soldiers have been killed so far, hundreds of planes, helicopters and tanks destroyed.

A massacre that no one, neither in the West nor in Moscow, had foreseen.

And it proves it every day.

Here is the chronicle.

    * February 24 - At 4 in the morning, Russian troops invade Ukraine.

At the same time, Putin announces that he will demilitarize the country with a "special military operation".

    February 25 - "Enemy sabotage forces have entered Kiev, but I am staying here," Zelensky announces.

    * February 26 - Rain of missiles on Kiev as the exodus of Ukrainians to neighboring countries begins.

Zelensky: "Over 100,000 invaders on our land".

European countries announce the sending of military aid and the West strengthens sanctions.

    February 27 - Putin evokes the nuclear specter for the first time.

The battle rages in Kharkiv.

The president of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen announces that for the first time the Union will finance the delivery of arms and open up to Ukraine in the European Union.

    February 28 - Negotiations between the Moscow and Kiev delegations begin in Gomel, Belarus.

    * March 1 - Russian troops besiege Kherson and bomb the TV tower in Kiev.

Missiles over Kharkiv.

Zelensky on video at the European Parliament: "Be with us, Putin kills children".

    * 2 March - Hundreds of civilians have been killed.

The displaced hundreds of thousands.

Kherson is the first major Ukrainian city to fall under Russian control.

    * March 4 - Russian forces take control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe.

It is the night of great fear when the area of ​​the plant is hit by missiles and a fire breaks out.

    * March 5 - Mariupol under siege.

Humanitarian corridors fail.

International media leave Russia.

    * March 6 - Refugees in Poland close to one million.

    Evacuations from Mariupol impossible.

    * March 7 - Mykolaiv under the bombs.

Russia approves a list of 'hostile countries', including Italy.

    * March 8 - McDonald's closes 850 stores in Russia.

    Coca-Cola stops operations.

The US stops importing Russian oil and gas.

    * March 9 - Horror in the world for the bombing of the children's hospital in Mariupol.

    March 10 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba meet in Turkey, without any success.

    * 12 March - Bombing in Kiev and Mykolaiv.

The mayor of Melitopol kidnapped.

Mariupol surrounded.

    * March 13 - One million people without gas and heating in Ukraine.

Explosions in Lviv.

    March 14 - White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan meets Chinese Communist Party diplomacy chief Yang Jiechi in Rome.

    * March 16 - A Mariupol theater converted into a refuge bombed.

Over a thousand people inside.

    * March 17 - The Pentagon: "Russia has fired more than 1,000 missiles on Ukraine".

    * March 19 - 190,000 civilians evacuated through humanitarian corridors since the beginning of the invasion.

    * March 20 - Bombs on Mariupol also from the sea.

A school with at least 400 displaced people hit.

Kiev accuses: "Women raped and killed".

    * March 21 - Bombs on a shopping center in Kiev, missiles on Odessa.

Three thousand dead in Mariupol, corpses buried in the streets.

    * 22 March - Zelensky on video in the Italian Parliament asks for new aid.

Kiev attempts a counter-offensive and regains control of Makariv, 60 km from Kiev.

    * March 23 - A bridge in Chernihiv, crucial for bringing humanitarian aid and evacuating civilians, bombed.

There are over 3,500,000 refugees.

The dead babies are 121, according to Zelensky.

The civilian casualties almost a thousand, according to the UN.