A Brief History
On February 24, 2022, days after recognizing Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered a full scale invasion of Ukraine.
Digging Deeper
Russia’s invasion has had four major phases thus far. First, Russia failed to capture Kyiv from February 25th, 2022 through March 31st, 2022. Second, in early April 2022, Russian forces then withdrew from northeastern Ukraine. Third, Russian forces focused their efforts on southeastern Ukraine since early April 2022. Fourth and currently, Ukraine has launched a counteroffensive since late August 2022. The animated map below shows the daily progress of the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine from February 24th, 2022 through January 26th, 2023.
Question for students (and subscribers): What do you think will be the outcome of this invasion? Do you think Russia will succeed in annexing some areas of Ukraine long term? Do you think nuclear weapons will be used before the war has ended? Do you think any NATO countries will become involved militarily? Do you think Putin will lose power before the war concludes? Please let us know in the comments section below this article.
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Historical Evidence
For more information, please see the YouTube news channel Agenda-Free TV and the Ukraine Latest News Interactive Map for the latest updates as well as the videos “Putin’s Inaccurate Historical Propaganda : The History of the Russian and Ukrainian Relations” and “How Putin is Rebuilding the Russian Empire” for some background information.
To help Ukrainian victims of the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine, please donate to the following charity: https://donation.babynyar.org/en/
The featured image in this article, a map by Viewsridge of the War in Ukraine (2022), is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
