In some areas, Ukrainian forces have repeatedly pushed the Russians back and have regularly disrupted supply lines. The advances have often been arduous, halting and costly. Russian forces in eastern Ukraine include Russian-backed separatists. Source: Institute for the Study of War with American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project (Russian-occupied areas) Note: Occupied areas are as of 4 p.m. Marco Hernandez, Denise Lu, Eleanor Lutz and Larry Buchanan Many small towns and villages between the eastern Donbas region and Kharkiv have had at least one day of aerial attacks, as Russian forces move toward each other in an effort to close off northeastern Ukraine. Russian forces recently stepped up aerial attacks in locations far from the frontlines. At least eight cities have had more than four days of shelling. Kyiv, the capital, as well as Irpin, a nearby city, and Mariupol, the besieged southern port city, have also been subjected to multiple days of relentless shelling. Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, has been under bombardment for at least nine days.
The New York Timesīecause of the difficulties in getting comprehensive reporting of events in wartime, the tallies shown here are likely an undercount of the full scale of Russia’s aerial attacks. Attacks may not have occurred over consecutive days. Source: Compiled from photos and videos showing evidence of attacks, government reports and first-person accounts.
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