Short description: Outline of the war between Russia and Ukraine since 2014
Russo-Ukrainian War
Part of post-Soviet conflicts
Zones of control in Ukraine as of 12 July 2024
Controlled by Ukraine
Occupied by Russia
For a more detailed map, see the Russo-Ukrainian War detailed map
Date
20 February 2014 – present (10 years, 4 months, 3 weeks and 1 day)
Location
Ukraine
Status
Ongoing
Commanders and leaders
Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Petro Poroshenko
Oleksandr Turchynov
Oleksii Reznikov
Valerii Zaluzhnyi
Russia
Vladimir Putin
Sergei Shoigu
Valery Gerasimov
Yevgeny Prigozhin
Ramzan Kadyrov
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Russo-Ukrainian War:
Russo-Ukrainian War – ongoing international conflict between Russia, alongside Russian-backed separatists, and Ukraine, which began in February 2014. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine and supported pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas war. The first eight years of conflict also included naval incidents, cyberwarfare, and heightened political tensions. In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Contents
1Overview of articles
1.1Top level overview articles
1.2Timelines
1.3Years in Russia
1.4Years in Ukraine
2Subjects
2.1Participants
2.2Historical background
2.3Prelude to the war
2.4Civil Defense
2.5Communications and the media
2.5.1Media
2.5.2Slogans, visual expressions, and symbols
2.5.3Propaganda, sham elections, and disinformation
2.6Crimea
2.7Economics and food
2.8Effects within Russia
2.9Elections and referendums
2.10Energy
2.11Gender
2.12Human rights, war crimes, genocide
2.12.1Human rights
2.12.2War crimes
2.12.3Sexual violence
2.12.4Genocide
2.12.5Dislocation of the Ukrainian population
2.12.6Prosecution of war criminals
2.12.7Other subjects
2.12.8Public opinion and national morale
2.13Nationalism
2.13.1Russian
2.13.2Ukrainian
2.14Occupations
2.15Peace issues
2.16Prisoners of war
2.17Psychological
3Geography
3.1Geographic overview
3.2Oblasts
3.3Urban centers
3.4Territorial changes
3.4.1Areas under Russian occupation
4Events
4.1Protests and unrest
4.2Military operations and activities
4.2.1Chronological
4.2.1.12014
4.2.1.22015
4.2.1.32016
4.2.1.42017
4.2.1.52018
4.2.1.62021
4.2.1.72022
4.2.1.82023
4.2.2Geographic
4.2.2.1Eastern Ukraine
4.2.2.2Western Ukraine
4.2.2.3Southern Ukraine
4.2.2.4Northern Ukraine
4.2.2.5Central Ukraine
4.2.2.6Crimea and the Black Sea
4.2.2.7Outside Ukraine
4.3Attacks on civilians
4.4Cyberwarfare
4.5Movement of the population
4.6Illegal annexations
4.7Diplomatic
5Individuals
5.1Russian figures
5.1.1Political (pro-Russian)
5.1.2Military (Russian aligned or controlled)
5.1.3Other (pro-Russian)
5.2Ukrainian figures
5.2.1Political (pro-Ukrainian)
5.2.2Military (Ukrainian aligned and controlled)
5.2.3Journalists (pro-Ukrainian)
5.2.4Other (Ukrainian aligned and controlled)
5.3Other individuals
5.3.1Political (other)
5.3.2Military (other)
5.3.3Private (other)
6Military units, equipment, and bases
6.1Russian military units
6.2Ukrainian military units
6.3Military equipment
6.4Military bases and facilities
6.5Military exercises
7Entities
7.1Pro Russian organizations
7.1.1Political (pro-Russian)
7.1.2Military (Russian controlled and aligned)
7.1.3Other (pro-Russian)
7.2Pro Ukrainian organizations
7.2.1Political (pro-Ukrainian)
7.2.2Military (Ukrainian controlled and aligned)
7.2.3Other (Ukrainian controlled and aligned)
7.3Other organizations
7.3.1Political (3rd parties)
7.3.2Military (3rd parties)
7.3.3Other (3rd parties)
8International involvement
8.1Overviews
8.2International events
8.3Reactions
8.4Sanctions
8.5Investigations
8.6Other international involvement
8.7Military cooperation with the Russian Federation
8.8Military cooperation with Ukraine
9Resolutions and statements
10Books and publications
11Lists
12Other topics
13Related outlines
14See also
15References
15.1Notes
15.2Citations
Overview of articles
Top level overview articles
Russo-Ukrainian War
War in Donbas (2014–2022)
Major overview subdivisions
Prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Ukrainian resistance during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Timelines
Timeline of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
Timeline of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
An alphabetical list of subjects related to the war. Articles related to a subject are listed alphabetically under the main subject.
Participants
Combatants of the war in Donbas
Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Ukrainian resistance during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Historical background
Armed Forces of Ukraine
Budapest Memorandum
Controversy in Russia regarding the legitimacy of eastward NATO expansion
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Enlargement of NATO
2007 Munich speech of Vladimir Putin
NATO open door policy
Russia–Ukraine gas disputes
Russia under Vladimir Putin
2003 Tuzla Island conflict
Prelude to the war
A chronological list of articles about the period immediately prelude to war; for earlier articles see the Historical background section.
Orange Revolution
Euromaidan
Historical background of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
Minsk agreements
2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots
Revolution of Dignity
2014 Odesa clashes
Prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Belarus–European Union border crisis
Civil Defense
Martial law in Ukraine
Mobilization in Ukraine
Communications and the media
Look for Your Own
Never Ever Can We Be Brothers
I Want to Live (hotline)
Media
Media portrayal of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Reactions to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Reactions to the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis
List of journalists killed during the Russo-Ukrainian War
Disinformation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Media Center Ukraine
Krasovsky case
Novaya Gazeta
Russian 2022 war censorship laws
Ukrinform
Slogans, visual expressions, and symbols
Putin khuylo!
Putler
Slava Ukraini
Russian warship, go fuck yourself
Soviet imagery during the Russo-Ukrainian War
Z (military symbol)
Strength is in truth
Where have you been for eight years?
Destroyed Russian military equipment exhibition
Grain From Ukraine program
Religion and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
White-blue-white flag
Propaganda, sham elections, and disinformation
Disinformation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Roskomnadzor
2014 Donbas general elections (2 November 2014)
Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Crimea (11 March 2014)
2014 Crimean status referendum (16 March 2014)
Special military operation
On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians
Address concerning the events in Ukraine
Ukraine bioweapons conspiracy theory
What Russia Should Do with Ukraine
Manifesto of the South Russian People's Council
Disinformation Governance Board
Crimea
Russian occupation of Crimea
Economics and food
Black Sea Grain Initiative
Economic impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Grain From Ukraine program
People's Bayraktar
2022 Russian crude oil price cap sanctions
Signmyrocket.com
Effects within Russia
2022 Russian martial law
2022 Russian mobilization
2022 Moscow rally
2022 Moscow Victory Day Parade
Elections and referendums
2014 Donbas general elections
2014 Donbas status referendums
2014 Ukrainian presidential election
Energy
Russia–Ukraine gas disputes
Nord Stream, Nord Stream 2
Russia in the European energy sector
Gender
LGBT topics in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Women in the war in Donbas
Women in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Human rights, war crimes, genocide
Human rights
Humanitarian situation during the war in Donbas
2022 mobilization in the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic
War crimes
2022 Russian theft of Ukrainian grain
Bucha massacre
Child abductions in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
International Criminal Court investigation in Ukraine
Izium mass graves
Makiivka surrender incident
Murder of Yevgeny Nuzhin
Russian filtration camps for Ukrainians
Russian strikes on hospitals during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Russian torture chambers in Ukraine
Sexual violence in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Torture and castration of a Ukrainian POW in Pryvillia
Torture of Russian soldiers in Mala Rohan
Use of incendiary weapons in the Russo-Ukrainian war
War crimes in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Sexual violence
Sexual violence in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Genocide
Accusations of genocide in Donbas
Allegations of genocide of Ukrainians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
What Russia Should Do with Ukraine
Dislocation of the Ukrainian population
The following section includes forced movement (e.g. ethnic cleansing) and crisis movement (e.g. war refugees/evacuees).
Russian filtration camps for Ukrainians
2022 evacuation of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic
Ukrainian refugee crisis (2022–present)
2022 mobilization in the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic
Prosecution of war criminals
Trial of Vadim Shishimarin
Trial of Alexander Bobikin and Alexander Ivanov
International Criminal Court arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova
Other subjects
Russian usage of mobile crematoriums in Ukraine
2014 Russian sabotage activities in Ukraine
Public opinion and national morale
Be Brave Like Ukraine
Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra
United24
United News (telethon)
Destroyed Russian military equipment exhibition
Nationalism
Pan-Slavism
Russian
Russian nationalism
Angry patriots
Novorossiya
Russian irredentism
Russian world
Ruscism
Putinism
Russian imperialism
Russification
Ukrainian
Ukrainian nationalism
Far-right politics in Ukraine
Ukrainian irredentism
Ukrainization
History of Ukrainian nationality
Occupations
Overviews
Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine
Areas
2022 Snake Island campaign
Donetsk People's Republic
Luhansk People's Republic
Russian occupation of Chernihiv Oblast
Russian occupation of Crimea
Russian occupation of Kharkiv Oblast
Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast
Russian occupation of Kyiv Oblast
Russian occupation of Mykolaiv Oblast
Russian occupation of Sumy Oblast
Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Russian occupation of Zhytomyr Oblast
Peace issues
Minsk agreements
Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Crimea Platform
Prisoners of war
Torture of Russian soldiers in Mala Rohan
Torture and castration of a Ukrainian POW in Pryvillia
Murder of Yevgeny Nuzhin
Makiivka surrender incident
Psychological
I Want to Live (hotline)
Never Ever Can We Be Brothers
Ukrainian recognition of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Geography
Joint Forces Operation (Ukraine)
Geographic overview
Geography of Ukraine
Eastern Ukraine, Western Ukraine, Southern Ukraine, Central Ukraine
Crimea, Snake Island (Ukraine), Black Sea, Kerch Peninsula, Sea of Azov, Kerch Strait
Administrative divisions of Ukraine
Historical regions in present-day Ukraine
Oblasts
An oblast (/ˈɒblæst/; alsoUK: /ˈɒblɑːst/; Cyrillic (most commonly): область, Bulgarian: област) is a type of administrative division within the Russian empire and Soviet Union that continues to be used in Russia and some post-Imperial/Soviet states.[1][2]
An alphabetical outline of territorial changes during the war.
Annexation of Crimea
Annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia
Political status of Crimea
Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine
2014 Donbas status referendums
Territorial control during the Russo-Ukrainian War
Areas under Russian occupation
Russian occupation of Crimea (not yet liberated)
Donetsk People's Republic (not yet liberated)
Russian occupation of Kharkiv Oblast (not yet liberated)
Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast (not yet liberated)
Luhansk People's Republic (not yet liberated
Russian occupation of Mykolaiv Oblast (not yet liberated)
Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast (not yet liberated)
Russian occupation of Chernihiv Oblast (liberated)
Russian occupation of Kyiv Oblast (liberated)
2022 Snake Island campaign (liberated)
Russian occupation of Sumy Oblast (liberated)
Russian occupation of Zhytomyr Oblast (liberated)
Events
A chronological outline of events. Articles related to particular events are listed alphabetically under the main article for the event they are related to.
2014 Crimean status referendum (16 March 2014)
2014 Ukrainian presidential election (25 May 2014)
2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election (26 October 2014)
2019 Ukrainian presidential election (31 March 2019)
Protests and unrest
2014 anti-war protests in Russia
2022 protests in Russian-occupied Ukraine
Protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Anti-war protests in Russia (2022–present)
2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
Historical background of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
2022 Russian Far East protests
2022 open letter from Nobel laureates in support of Ukraine
Military operations and activities
A chronological outline of military operations. Articles related to particular battles are listed alphabetically under the main article for the operation they are related to.
Chronological
When a event or topic covers more than one year the article appears in the year the event started.
2014
Overviews
2014 Russian sabotage activities in Ukraine
Russian occupation of Luhansk Oblast (April 2014)
Russian occupation of Donetsk Oblast (April 2014)
Events
2014 Russian cross-border shelling of Ukraine (11 July – September 2014)
2014 Simferopol incident (18 March 2014)
2014 Ukrainian Air Force Il-76 shootdown (14 June 2014)
Battle in Shakhtarsk Raion (16 July – 26 August 2014)
Battle of Horlivka (20 July – 6 September 2014)
Battle of Ilovaisk (10 August – 2 September 2014)
Battle of Kramatorsk (12 April – 5 July 2014)
Battle of Krasnyi Lyman (11 may – 19 June 2014)
Battle of Mariupol (2014) (6 May – 14 June 2014)
Battle of Novoazovsk (25–28 August 2014)
Battles of Sievierodonetsk (2014) (22 May – 22 July 2014)
Siege of Sloviansk (12 April – 5 July 2014)
Capture of Donetsk (2014) (1 March – 11 May 2014)
Capture of Southern Naval Base (3 – 26 March 2014)
Capture of the Crimean Parliament (27 February 2014)
Fights on the Ukrainian–Russian border (2014) (12 June – 7 August 2014)
First Battle of Donetsk Airport (26–27 May 2014)
Great Raid of 2014 (19 July – 10 August 2014)
Novosvitlivka refugee convoy attack (18 August 2014)
Offensive on Mariupol (September 2014) (4–8 September 2014)
Second Battle of Donetsk Airport (28 September 2014 – 21 January 2015)
Shelling of Donetsk, Russia (13 July 2014)
Siege of Sloviansk (12 April – 5 July 2014)
Siege of the Luhansk Border Base (2 – 4 June 2014)
Zelenopillia rocket attack (11 July 2014)
2015
Battle of Debaltseve (16 January – 20 February 2015)
Battle of Marinka (2015) (3 June 2015)
Shyrokyne standoff (10 February – 3 July 2015)
January 2015 Mariupol rocket attack (24 January 2015)
2016
Battle of Svitlodarsk (18–23 December 2016)
2017
Battle of Avdiivka (29 January – 4 February 2017)
2018
Kerch Strait incident (25 November 2018)
2021
2021 Black Sea incident (23 – 24 June 2021)
Zapad 2021 (10 – 15 September 2021)
2022
Overviews
Order of battle for the Russian invasion of Ukraine
2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive (6 September – 2 October 2022)
2022 Kherson counteroffensive (29 August – 11 November 2022)
Battle of Donbas (2022–present) (18 April 2022 – present)
Eastern Ukraine campaign (24 February 2022 – present)
Northern Ukraine campaign (24 February 2022 — 8 April 2022 )
Southern Ukraine campaign (24 February 2022 – present)
Events
Ivano-Frankivsk strikes (2022–present) (24 February 2022 – present)
Bombing of Kryvyi Rih (2022–present) (24 February 2022 – present)
Bombing of Lviv (2022–present) (24 February 2022 – present)
Bombing of Zaporizhzhia (2022–present) (24 February 2022 – present)
2022 Chornobaivka attacks (27 February – 5 November 2022)
Crimea attacks (2022–present) (31 July 2022 – present)
Dnipro strikes (2022–present) (11 March 2022 – present )
2022 missile explosion in Poland 15 November 2022
2022 Novofedorivka explosions (9 August 2022)
2022 attack on Nova Kakhovka (11 July 2022)
Battle of Donbas (2022–present) (18 April 2022 – present)
Battle of Pisky (28 July 2022 – 24 August 2022)
Battle of Popasna (3 March – 7 May 2022)
Battle of Sviatohirsk (30 May – 8 June 2022 then 10–12 September 2022 )
Luhansk Oblast campaign (2 October 2022 – present)
Battle of the Siverskyi Donets (5 – 13 May 2022)
Battle of Siversk (3 July – 8 September 2022)
Battle of Volnovakha (25 February – 12 March 2022)
2022 Berdiansk port attack (24 March 2022)
Chuhuiv air base attack (24 February 2022)
Desna barracks airstrike (17 May 2022)
Battle of Kreminna (18 – 19 April 2022)
First Battle of Lyman (23 – 27 May 2022)
Second Battle of Lyman (3 September – 2 October 2022)
Millerovo air base attack (25 February 2022)
Sinking of the Moskva (14 April 2022)
Vinnytsia missile strikes (6 March 2022 – 14 July 2022)
Yavoriv military base attack (13 March 2022)
2023
2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive (8 June 2023 – Present)
Under construction
Event
2023 missile strike on the Sevastopol Naval Base (22 September 2023)
Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Aerial warfare in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
16 March 2022 Chernihiv breadline attack
2015 Kharkiv bombing (22 February 2015)
Dnipro strikes (2022–present) (11 March 2022 – present)
2022 Zhytomyr attacks (24 February 2022 — present)
3 March 2022 Chernihiv bombing
April 2022 Kharkiv cluster bombing (15 April 2022)
Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Bilohorivka school bombing (7 May 2022)
Bombing of Borodianka (March 2022)
Bucha massacre (March 2022)
Chaplyne railway station attack (24 August 2022)
Chasiv Yar missile strike (9 July 2022)
February 2015 Kramatorsk rocket attack (10 February 2015)
February 2022 Kharkiv cluster bombing (28 February 2022 )
Irpin refugee column shelling (6 March 2022)
Izium mass graves (15 September 2022)
January 2015 Mariupol rocket attack (24 January 2015)
Kharkiv dormitories missile strike (17 – 18 August 2022)
Kharkiv government building airstrike (1 March 2022)
Kramatorsk railway station attack (8 April 2022)
Kremenchuk shopping mall attack (27 June 2022)
Kupiansk civilian convoy shelling (25 September 2022)
Kyiv shopping centre bombing (20 March 2022)
List of journalists killed during the Russo-Ukrainian War
Maisky Market attack (13 June 2022)
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (17 July 2014)
March 2022 Donetsk attack (14 March 2022)
March 2022 Kharkiv cluster bombing (24 March 2022)
Mariupol art school bombing (20 March 2022)
Mariupol hospital airstrike (9 March 2022)
Mariupol theatre airstrike (16 March 2022)
Murder of Pentecostals in Sloviansk (June 2014)
Mykolaiv cluster bombing (13 March 2022)
Mykolaiv government building missile strike (29 March 2022)
Novosvitlivka refugee convoy attack (18 August 2014)
Olenivka prison massacre (29 July 2022)
Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure (2022–present) (9 October 2022 – present)
September 2022 Donetsk attack (19 September 2022)
Serhiivka missile strike (1 July 2022 )
Stara Krasnianka care house attack (11 March 2022)
Sumykhimprom ammonia leak (21 March 2022)
Vinnytsia missile strikes (6 March 2022 – 14 July 2022)
Volnovakha bus attack (13 January 2015)
War crimes in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Zaporizhzhia civilian convoy attack (30 September 2022)
2022 Zaporizhzhia residential building airstrike (9 October 2022)
Cyberwarfare
Russian information war against Ukraine
Russian–Ukrainian cyberwarfare
2015 Ukraine power grid hack (December 2015)
2017 Ukraine ransomware attacks (June 2017)
2022 Ukraine cyberattacks (January – March 2022)
2016 Kyiv cyberattack (17 December 2016)
Surkov leaks (October 2016, November 2017 & April 2018)
Anonymous and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Movement of the population
2022 evacuation of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic
Illegal annexations
Annexation referendums
Annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts
Diplomatic
List of international presidential trips made by Volodymyr Zelenskyy
2022 visit by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the United States
May 2023 visits by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Europe
2023 visit by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the United Kingdom
Individuals
An alphabetical list of individuals significantly related to the war. Individuals are listed under their nationality, not political alignment.
Women in the war in Donbas
Women in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
List of people and organizations sanctioned during the Russo-Ukrainian War
Russian figures
Political (pro-Russian)
Alexander Bastrykin
Aleksandr Dugin
Ramzan Kadyrov
Sergey Menyaylo
Dmitry Ovsyannikov
Vladimir Putin
Mikhail Razvozhayev
Military (Russian aligned or controlled)
Aleksandr Chaiko
Aleksandr Dvornikov
Valery Gerasimov
Sergei Shoigu
Sergey Surovikin
Other (pro-Russian)
Igor Girkin
Ivan Ilyin
Yevgeny Prigozhin
Dmitry Utkin
Ukrainian figures
Political (pro-Ukrainian)
Vadym Chernysh
Vitali Klitschko
Oksana Koliada
Petro Poroshenko
Oleksii Reznikov
Oleksandr Turchynov
Iryna Vereshchuk
Viktor Yanukovych
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Military (Ukrainian aligned and controlled)
Ruslan Khomchak
Yevhen Moisiuk
Oleksandr Syrskyi
Valerii Zaluzhnyi
Journalists (pro-Ukrainian)
Serhii Korovayny
Other (Ukrainian aligned and controlled)
Under construction
Other individuals
Political (other)
Alexander Lukashenko
Military (other)
Under construction
Private (other)
Under construction
Military units, equipment, and bases
An alphabetical list of military units involved in a significant way the war.
Combatants of the war in Donbas
Foreign fighters in the Russo-Ukrainian War
List of Russo-Ukrainian War military equipment
Russian military units
2022 Russian mobilization
Chechen involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Order of battle for the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Combatants of the war in Donbas
Command and organization
Ministry of Defence (Russia)
General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Russian Ground Forces
Russian Navy
Russian Aerospace Forces
Russian Airborne Forces
Special Operations Forces (Russia)
National Guard of Russia
Units
This section contains articles about major formations or units with significance to the war. For a complete list see List of Russian units which invaded the territory of Ukraine