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Ukraine: from the invasion to the Azovstal, the stages of the war

2022-06-02T18:09:09.293Z


One hundred days of bombs and destruction, over 4 thousand civilians killed (ANSA) Over 4,000 civilians killed, including 260 children, 5 million people refugees in foreign countries, a fifth of the territory occupied by the Moscow army, 300,000 square kilometers contaminated by mines, large and small cities reduced to rubble, economy on its knees. Numbers that photograph Vladimir Putin's 100 days of war on Ukraine. Here are the main steps: * 24 FEBRUARY. At 3.55 am (5.55 am i


Over 4,000 civilians killed, including 260 children, 5 million people refugees in foreign countries, a fifth of the territory occupied by the Moscow army, 300,000 square kilometers contaminated by mines, large and small cities reduced to rubble, economy on its knees.

Numbers that photograph Vladimir Putin's 100 days of war on Ukraine.

Here are the main steps:

* 24 FEBRUARY.

At 3.55 am (5.55 am in Moscow) Rossija 24 TV broadcasts a pre-recorded video in which the Russian president announces a military operation to protect the Donbass, demilitarize and denazify Ukraine.

Shortly after, the first news of explosions arrived in Kiev, Odessa, Kharkiv, Mariupol.

The invasion has begun.

* FEBRUARY 25th.

President Zelensky posts a video on social media, in military suit announces: "We are here, we are in Kiev, we are defending Ukraine".

A sign that he has no intention of leaving his country.

But he knows he is in Moscow's sights: "It could be the last time you see me alive."

The Chernobyl nuclear site falls under the control of Russian forces.

* FEBRUARY 27th.

The mayor of Berdyansk, a city on the south coast of Ukraine reports the Russians have taken control.

With a thousand stop and go, the Ukrainian and Russian delegations decide to meet on the border with Belarus.

* 2 MARCH.

On the seventh day of the war, the first major city, Kherson, in the South, falls into the hands of the Russians.

* 4TH MARCH.

Russian military forces take control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe.

* 8TH OF MARCH.

McDonald's closes 850 fast food outlets in Russia.

* 9 MARCH.

Russian bombs hit a maternity hospital in Mariupol.

The photo of Marianna Podgurskaya, a young blogger pregnant in the ninth month, with wounds on her face, who comes out after the explosions goes around the world.

And another, taken away on a stretcher, dies with her child.

But Moscow talks about 'staging'

* MARCH 11TH.

The UN denounces that the Russians use cluster bombs.

The mayor of the southeastern city of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, was kidnapped and carried away with a sack on his head.

* 13 MARCH.

Brent Renaud, multiple award-winning US director and producer of documentaries and war reporter, is killed in Irpin.

* MARCH 15.

Ukrainian journalist Alexandra Kuvshinova and Fox cameraman Pierre Zakrewski are killed near Kiev.

* MARCH 16.

The Russian army bombs the Mariupol theater where hundreds of civilians had taken refuge.

Impossible to establish the number of victims.

* 29 MARCH.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomes Russian and Ukrainian delegations to Istanbul for peace talks.

* 3RD APRIL.

In Bucha, in the Kiev hinterland, the Russians withdraw, leaving destruction and death: the rescuers find streets strewn with corpses, many with tied wrists, victims of executions.

Mass graves are discovered as the days go by.

In front of the horror Zelensky says: 'I can't cry anymore'.

* APRIL 8.

Two Russian missiles crash into Kramatorsk station in Donbass as thousands of people - women, children and the elderly - wait for trains to evacuate.

The victims only more than 50, dozens injured.

Moscow counters the Ukrainians.

* April 29.

Russian missiles hit the center of Kiev during the visit of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

A Ukrainian journalist is killed in the bombing.

* MAY 3.

In Irpin after the withdrawal of Russian troops, 290 corpses of civilians are found.

Most shot dead, executed.

* MAY, 20TH.

After 86 days of resistance, the Ukrainian fighters barricaded inside the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol surrender themselves to the Russian army following Kiev's orders.

The city of Mariupol is taken by the Russians.

* 2 JUNE.

Russian forces advance into Donbass and control 80% of Severodonetsk, after days of advancing with Kiev recognizing the "difficulties" of the resistance.

About 800 people are taking refuge in various anti-aircraft bunkers in the basement of the Azot chemical factory as the clamp tightens on all the cities in the region.

Source: ansa

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