2022 bombing of Zaporizhzhia

Bombing of Zaporizhzhia

Part of the Southern Ukraine campaign of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
| Date| 24 February 2022 (2022-02-24) – present
(1 year, 4 months, 2 weeks and 1 day)

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Location|

Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine

Status|  Ongoing
Belligerents
Russia|  Ukraine
Units involved
Russian Armed Forces|  Ukrainian Armed Forces
Casualties and losses
Unknown|  Unknown
At least 248 civilians wounded and 76 killed.

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Russian invasion of Ukraine

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Southern Ukraine campaign

* Kherson
* bombing
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* cluster bombing
* government building airstrike
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* Zaporizhzhia
* civilian convoy attack
* residential building airstrike
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* Prelude
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* Crimea
* Novofedorivka
* Crimean Bridge
* Sevastopol Naval Base
* Liberation of Kherson
* Dnieper
* Kakhovka Dam

2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive

Other regions

* Ivano-Frankivsk
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* 2023 residential building airstrike
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Resistance

* Ukrainian resistance
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* rail war in Belarus
* rail war in Russia
* Russian commisariat attacks
* Ust-Ilimsk military commissariat shooting

See also

* Zagreb Tu-141 crash
* Russian mystery fires
* Transnistria attacks
* Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
* Soloti military training ground shooting
* Brovary helicopter crash
* Black Sea drone incident
* Saint Petersburg cafe bombing
* Belgorod accidental bombing
* Bryansk Oblast military aircraft crashes [ru]
* Wagner Group rebellion

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia and the surrounding region became the target of repeated Russian shelling and bombing (including cruise missiles, S-300 missiles and Shahed-136 kamikaze drones) as part of the southern Ukraine offensive from 27 February 2022 onwards. Was 30-40% infrastructure from city is destroyed.

## Background[edit]

Ukraine was invaded by the Russian armed forces on 24 February 2022 with the Russian 22nd Army Corps advancing north from Crimea towards the city of Zaporizhzhia, which holds a strategic position along the Dnieper River in Central Ukraine, and is the administrative centre of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast. By 26 February, Russian forces began to approach the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, with fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops being reported on the southern outskirts of the city the following day.[1][2] No casualties were reported in the aftermath of the confrontation.[3] Later that evening, the Russians began shelling the city for the first time since the start of the war.[4]

On 24,27 February Russia shelled Zaporizhzhia airport. On February 26, it destroyed the trolleybus depot, and on February 27, battles were sharpened on the southern outskirts of the city, there were no victims.

## Timeline[edit]

### March[edit]

Main article: Battle of Enerhodar

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant was subjected to Russian shelling during the night of 3 March, resulting in a fire at the plant which was brought under control by the next morning.[5][6][7] That same day the plant fell under control of the Russian forces following the Battle of Enerhodar.[8][9][10][11]

View from the platform of the Zaporizhzhia-2 railway station.

Around 5am on 16 March the Zaporizhzhia-2 railway station (Запоріжжя II [uk]) was targeted by a Russian rocket attack, significantly damaging the tracks and overhead lines, as well as blowing out the building's windows. The trains which were present at the station at the time also sustained broken windows. No one was injured or killed in the attack, and all train traffic was subsequently handled by Zaporizhzhia-1 railway station.[12]

### April[edit]

Residents reported feeling and hearing explosions in various parts of the city on 7 April. These explosions had been the result of the Zaporizhzhia air defense forces successfully shooting down three Russian cruise missiles, preventing any potential ground casualties and/or injuries.[13]

On 21 April, two Russian cruise missiles were fired towards Zaporizhzhia. The first missile came down near the island of Khortytsia in the vicinity of the Preobrazhensky Bridges (Preobrazhensky Bridge) at 12.45pm. At that time, a passenger train serving the line between Zaporizhzhia and Lviv was traveling on the tracks of the bridge and was caught in the blast. The windows of four carriages were blown out as a result of the explosion's shock wave. The second missile also came down near Khortytsia at 1.30pm, resulting in damage to a Sanatorium (Sanatoriy-Profilaktoriy Ztr) building on the island. The attacks resulted in eight injuries, all of whom were civilians.[14]

Preobrazhensky Bridges over the Dnieper River.

In the morning of 26 April, two Russian 3M-54 Kalibr guided missiles hit the city while a third missile exploded mid-air. The missile strike caused damage to a factory which had been out of operation and killed one civilian while injuring three others.[15][16] Two days later on the morning of 28 April, another missile strike was conducted on the city by a Kh-55 air-to-surface missile. The strike destroyed two private residences resulting in three casualties.[17]On April 28, Russian troops launched air strikes on Zaporizhzhia.

### May[edit]

At 11pm on 12 May, a Russian cruise missile hit the island of Khortytsia, causing a small fire at the impact site. No infrastructure damage or casualties were reported.[18]

Four more cruise missiles were launched at Zaporizhzhia on 25 May. While one missile was shot down by the city's air defences, the other three struck civilian sites in the Shevchenkivskyi district (Шевченківський район (Запоріжжя) [uk]) and the shopping center in the Oleksandrivskyi district (Олександрівський район (Запоріжжя) [uk]), resulting in one civilian death and 3 wounded.[19]

### July[edit]

On 13 July, two Russian cruise missiles hit a factory in the Dnipro district (Дніпровський район (Запоріжжя) [uk]) of the city, wounding 14 civilians.[20][21]

### August[edit]

On 6 August, explosions were reported near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant from apparent shelling. A high-voltage power line transformer was damaged in the explosion, resulting in the automatic shutdown of reactor number 3 and the start-up of its emergency generators.[22]

One civilian was killed and two others injured when five Russian shells were fired at Zaporizhzhia at 7.15pm on 12 August. Further city infrastructure in the Shevchenkivskyi district was also damaged in the shelling.[23] On August 29, 40 private houses and 9 high-rise buildings were destroyed in Zaporizhzhia, the whole month itself - was under fire

### September[edit]

Main article: Zaporizhzhia civilian convoy attack

Damaged vehicles alongside the victims of the missile strike of 30 September.

During the night of 19 September, Zaporizhzhia was hit by eight Russian rockets in its industrial and residential areas. Followed by another rocket attack in the morning, striking the regional center near the Dnieper river.[24] Two days later the city was again hit by two Russian rockets during the night, followed by another five rockets attacks in the daytime. The regional center was hit an additional two times while other infrastructure and residential houses were damaged, two of the projectiles landed in a field on the outskirts of the city. The attack wounded three civilians.[25] The following day on 22 September, nine more rockets were fired at the city. One of the projectiles hit a hotel in the city's central park, killing one civilian and injuring five others. An electrical substation and several high-rise residential buildings were also damaged. Later that same day, ten more rockets struck the city and damaged about a dozen private homes.[26] Further shelling on the morning of 24 September saw five projectiles hit the city, causing damage to residential buildings as well as injuring 9 civilians while killing one.[27]

On the morning of 27 September, Zaporizhzhia was struck by ten S-300 missiles. Besides damaging infrastructure, the attack also damaged power lines resulting in a fire.[28]

A civilian humanitarian convoy was hit by several Russian S-300 missiles on 30 September, killing 32 civilians while wounding around 90 others.[29][30][31]

### October[edit]

Main article: Zaporizhzhia residential building airstrike

At 5.08am on 6 October, seven Russian rockets were fired towards the city center of Zaporizhzhia. Several residential buildings were destroyed and fires broke out due to the attack, killing 17 civilians and injuring 12 more.[32][33][34]

Houses after the shelling of 6 October.

Zaporizhzhia was attacked once more during the night of 7 October, but this time by Iranian Shahed-136 kamikaze drones used by the Russian forces. The attack resulted in the deaths of 12 civilians with a further 13 injured and 15 missing.[35][36][37][38] That same day around 10am, another Russian attack struck the city with one of the rockets landing in the courtyard of a high-rise building. The attack damaged the building and injured one civilian.[39]

Around 3am on 9 October, 12 Russian tactical missiles were launched against civilian infrastructure in Zaporizhzhia. Most missiles hit both high-rise buildings and residential houses, with a nine-story building being partially destroyed after the attack. A further five high-rise buildings, 20 residential houses and four schools were damaged alongside 20 cars. A total of 13 civilians were killed in the attack, while 89 more were injured.[40]

Damage to a residential building in Zaporizhzhia following the airstrike of 9 October.

A residential building after the airstrike of 10 October

The following day at 1.45am, about seven Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missiles struck the city resulting in the deaths of eight civilians.[41][42]

Russian forces continuously targeted Zaporizhzhia with about 19 S-300 missiles and four Shahed-136 kamikaze drones during the nights from 11 to 15 October. Many residential buildings were damaged alongside other city infrastructure and several cars. The human cost of the continuous attacks came down to one civilian casualty and three more wounded.[43][44][45][46]

Another string of attacks occurred during the nights from 17 to 19 October, seeing at least seven S-300 missiles hitting both civilian and industrial infrastructure and several kamikaze drones hitting the regional center. No deaths or injuries were reported.[47][48][49] Two days later on 21 October at around 8.30am, another six Russian S-300 missiles targeted the city, damaging more residential buildings as well as a school. Five civilians received injuries in the attack.[50][51]

On 31 October around 8am, several rockets were launched from a Russian aircraft, followed by another attack by Russian S-300 missiles at 10am. The city's infrastructure again received damage, including damage to several high-rise buildings, a hospital, a school and a cultural center. As a result of the shelling, many of the city's residents were left without electricity or running water.[52][53]

### November[edit]

On 6 November around 12.34am, two S-300 missiles were fired at the city's regional center. One of the missiles fell in a residential quarter, damaging private residences as well as two cars, and causing a fire. The other exploded in a privately owned field. One person was killed by the shelling.[54]

On 18 November at 10.35pm, five S-300 missiles were launched at Zaporizhzhia. The attack damaged a factory and several high-rise buildings, killing one person.[55] In the aftermath of the attack, over 120 residential buildings were left without heating. The heating issue was resolved in the stricken high-rise buildings by the following day.[56]

18 November- presents

Since February 2022, Zaporizhzhia has been shelled almost every day. As a result, many people were killed and a significant part of the city was damaged.

### Shelled on March 2023[edit]

On 22 March Zaporizhzhia was shelled by Russian troops. 2 houses destroyed, 1 person was killed.

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* Reactions
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* War in Donbas
* 2022 timeline
* Minsk agreements
* humanitarian situation
* international recognition of the Donetsk PR and Luhansk PR
* Putinism
* Foundations of Geopolitics
* Novorossiya
* Ruscism
* Russian irredentism
* Russian imperialism

Foreign
relations|

* Russia–Ukraine
* Belarus–Ukraine
* Belarus–Russia
* Russia–United States
* Russia–NATO
* Ukraine–NATO
* enlargement of NATO
* eastward expansion controversy in Russia
* open door policy

Military engagements

| Southern
Ukraine|

* Snake Island campaign
* Bombing of Odesa
* Siege of Mariupol
* Battle of Kherson
* Battle of Melitopol
* Battle of Mykolaiv
* Battle of Enerhodar
* Battles of Voznesensk
* Battle of Huliaipole
* Battle of Davydiv Brid
* Kherson counteroffensive
* Liberation of Kherson
* Dnieper campaign
* Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam

|

Eastern
Ukraine|

* Battle of Avdiivka
* Battle of Marinka
* Battle of Volnovakha
* Battle of Izium
* Battle of Rubizhne
* Battle of Popasna
* Battle of Dovhenke
* Battle of Donbas
* First Battle of Kreminna
* Battle of the Siverskyi Donets
* Battle of Sievierodonetsk
* Battles of Bilohorivka
* Battle of Toshkivka
* First Battle of Lyman
* Battle of Sviatohirsk
* Battles of Bohorodychne and Krasnopillia
* Battle of Lysychansk
* Battle of Siversk
* Battle of Pisky
* Battle of Bakhmut
* Battle of Soledar
* Battles of Donetsk Suburbs
* Battle of Vuhledar
* Kharkiv counteroffensive
* Battle of Balakliia
* Battle of Kupiansk
* Second Battle of Lyman
* Battle of the Svatove–Kreminna line

Kyiv|

* Battle of Antonov Airport
* Capture of Chernobyl
* Battle of Ivankiv
* Battle of Kyiv
* Battle of Hostomel
* Battle of Vasylkiv
* Battle of Bucha
* Battle of Irpin
* Battle of Makariv
* Russian Kyiv convoy
* Battle of Moshchun
* Battle of Brovary
* Battle of Slavutych

Northeastern
Ukraine|

* Battle of Hlukhiv
* Battle of Kharkiv
* Battle of Konotop
* Battle of Sumy
* Battle of Trostianets
* Siege of Chernihiv
* Battle of Okhtyrka
* Battle of Lebedyn
* Northeastern Ukraine–Russia border skirmishes

Strikes on
military targets|

* Chuhuiv air base attack
* Millerovo air base attack
* Chornobaivka attacks
* Yavoriv military base attack
* Berdiansk port attack
* Sinking of the Moskva
* Desna barracks airstrike
* Attack on Nova Kakhovka
* Crimea attacks
* Novofedorivka explosions
* Attack on the Sevastopol Naval Base
* Dyagilevo and Engels air bases attacks
* Makiivka military quarters shelling
* Machulishchy air base attack

Resistance|

| Russian-occupied Ukraine|

* Popular Resistance of Ukraine
* Berdiansk Partisan Army
* Yellow Ribbon
* Atesh

|

Belarus and Russia|

* Assassination of Vladlen Tatarsky
* Civic Council
* Irpin Declaration
* Killing of Darya Dugina
* National Republican Army
* Military commissariats arsons
* Ust-Ilimsk military commissariat shooting
* Black Bridge
* Rail war in Russia
* Stop the Wagons
* Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists
* Rail war in Belarus
* Busly liaciać
* BYPOL
* Community of Railway Workers
* Cyber Partisans

Russian
occupations|

* Flags used in Russian-occupied Ukraine

| Ongoing|

* Annexation referendums
* Annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts
* Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol
* Donetsk Oblast
* Kharkiv Oblast
* Kherson Oblast
* Luhansk Oblast
* Mykolaiv Oblast
* Zaporizhzhia Oblast

|

Previous|

* Chernihiv Oblast
* Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
* Kyiv Oblast
* Odesa Oblast
* Poltava Oblast
* Sumy Oblast
* Zhytomyr Oblast

Potentially
related|

* Black Sea drone incident
* Mystery fires in Russia
* Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
* Transnistria attacks
* Zagreb Tu-141 crash

Other|

* Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy
* Attacks on Kyiv
* Coup d'état attempt in Ukraine
* Bridges in the Russo-Ukrainian War
* Crimean Bridge explosion
* Dnipro missile strikes
* Bombing of Ivano-Frankivsk
* Bombing of Kherson
* Bombing of Kryvyi Rih
* Bombing of Lviv
* Rivne missile strikes
* Vinnytsia missile strikes
* Bombing of Zaporizhzhia
* Zhytomyr attacks
* Missile explosion in Poland
* Western Russia attacks
* Bryansk Oblast raid
* Kremlin drone attack
* Belgorod Oblast incursions
* Moscow drone strikes
* 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
* Wagner Group rebellion

War crimes

| General|

* Accusations of genocide in Donbas
* Allegations of genocide of Ukrainians
* child abductions
* Attacks on hospitals
* Cluster bombs
* Incendiary weapons
* Landmines
* Russian filtration camps
* Russian mobile crematoriums
* Russian theft of Ukrainian grain
* Russian torture chambers
* Sacking
* Sexual violence
* Mistreatment of prisioners of war

|

Attacks on
civilians|

* February 2022 Kharkiv cluster bombing
* Kharkiv government building airstrike
* 3 March Chernihiv bombing
* Irpin refugee column shelling
* Mariupol hospital airstrike
* Stara Krasnianka care house attack
* Mykolaiv cluster bombing
* March Donetsk attack
* Bombing of Borodianka
* Chernihiv breadline attack
* Mariupol theatre airstrike
* Mariupol art school bombing
* Kyiv shopping centre bombing
* Sumykhimprom ammonia leak
* March 2022 Kharkiv cluster bombing
* Mykolaiv government building missile strike
* Bucha massacre
* Kramatorsk railway station attack
* April 2022 Kharkiv cluster bombing
* Bilohorivka school bombing
* Shooting of Andrii Bohomaz
* Maisky Market attack
* Kremenchuk shopping mall attack
* Serhiivka missile strike
* Chasiv Yar missile strike
* Olenivka prison massacre
* Kharkiv dormitories missile strike
* Chaplyne railway station attack
* Izium mass graves
* September Donetsk attack
* Zaporizhzhia civilian convoy attack
* Kupiansk civilian convoy shelling
* Zaporizhzhia residential building airstrike
* Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
* 2023 Dnipro residential building airstrike
* Ukraine Yellow Kitchen Photo
* Sloviansk airstrike
* Uman missile strike
* Kramatorsk restaurant attack

Crimes over
soldiers|

* Torture of Russian soldiers in Mala Rohan
* Torture and castration of a Ukrainian POW in Pryvillia
* Rape of Donetsk People's Republic soldiers by Kadyrovites
* Murder of Yevgeny Nuzhin
* Makiivka surrender incident
* Execution of Oleksandr Matsievskyi
* Beheading of a Ukrainian prisoner of war in summer 2022

Legal cases|

* ICC investigation
* Arrest warrants
* ICJ court case
* Task Force on Accountability
* Universal jurisdiction
* Crime of aggression
* Criminal proceedings
* Vadim Shishimarin
* Alexander Bobikin and Alexander Ivanov

Reactions

| States and
official entities|

| General|

* Sanctions
* people and organizations
* restrictions on transit to Kaliningrad Oblast
* Military aid
* European Union Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine
* People's Bayraktar
* Signmyrocket.com
* Humanitarian aid
* Sanctioned yachts

|

Ukraine|

* Application to NATO
* Be Brave Like Ukraine
* Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War
* Delta
* Destroyed Russian military equipment exhibition
* For Courage and Bravery (Ukraine)
* Grain From Ukraine
* Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief
* Hero City
* I Want to Live
* International Legion and other foreign units
* Belarusian Volunteer Corps
* Terror Battalion
* Canadian-Ukrainian Brigade
* Freedom of Russia Legion
* Karelian National Battalion
* Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment
* Norman Brigade
* Pahonia Regiment
* Polish Volunteer Corps
* Russian Volunteer Corps
* Separate Special Purpose Battalion
* Turan Battalion
* Forced confiscation law of Russian property [ru; uk]
* Look for Your Own
* Martial law
* Mobilization
* Media Center Ukraine
* National Council for the Recovery of Ukraine from the War [uk]
* National Multi-Subject Test [uk]
* North Korea–Ukraine relations
* Points of Invincibility [uk]
* Recognition of Ichkeria
* Rescuer City [uk]
* Save Ukrainian Culture [uk]
* Syria–Ukraine relations
* Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra
* United24
* United News

Russia|

* 2022 Moscow rally
* 2023 Moscow rally
* 2022 Moscow Victory Day Parade
* 2023 Moscow Victory Day Parade
* 2023 Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly
* Censorship in Russia [ru]
* Chechnya
* Pro-Ukrainian Chechen fighters
* Conmemorative Medal "Participant of a Special Military Operation" [ru]
* Conversations about the important [ru]
* Krasovsky case
* Legalization of parallel imports [ru]
* Manifesto of the South Russian People's Council
* Martial law
* Masha Moskalyova case
* Medal "For the Liberation of Mariupol" [ru]
* Metropolis of Crimea
* Mikhail Simonov case
* Mobilization
* Recruitment of irregular forces [ru]
* Opinion polling [ru]
* Orthodox Christmas truce proposal
* Prigozhin–Shoigu conflict
* Russian Orthodox clergymen appeal against war [ru]
* Salvation Committee for Peace and Order
* Special Coordinating Council
* Ukraine bioweapons conspiracy theory
* Unfriendly Countries List
* "What Russia Should Do with Ukraine"
* War censorship laws
* We Are Together. Sports

United States|

* 2022 Joe Biden speech in Warsaw
* 2022 State of the Union Address
* Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022
* Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023
* Disinformation Governance Board
* Executive Order 14071
* Pentagon document leaks
* Task Force KleptoCapture
* Ukraine Defense Contact Group
* Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act
* Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative

Other countries|

* Belarus
* China
* Chinese peace plan [fr; ru; zh]
* Croatia
* Denmark
* Danish European Union defence opt-out referendum
* France
* Mission Aigle
* Georgia [ru]
* Germany
* Zeitenwende speech
* Hungary [hu]
* India
* Operation Ganga
* Iran
* Israel
* Operation Israel Guarantees [he]
* Lithuania
* Moldova
* New Zealand
* Russia Sanctions Act
* Syria [ru]
* Taiwan [zh-yue]
* United Kingdom
* Economic Crime Act
* Homes for Ukraine
* Operation Interflex

United Nations|

* Emergency special session
* Resolution ES-11/1
* Resolution ES-11/2
* Resolution ES-11/3
* Resolution ES-11/4
* Resolution ES-11/5
* Security Council Resolution 2623
* Easter truce

International
organizations|

* Accession of Ukraine to the EU
* Brussels summit
* European Political Community
* 1st summit
* 2nd summit
* Madrid summit
* NATO virtual summit
* Operation Oscar
* Ramstein Air Base meeting
* EU–Ukraine Summit
* REPowerEU
* SWIFT ban against Russian banks
* Ukraine Recovery Conference
* Versailles declaration

Other|

* Consecration of Russia
* Finland–NATO relations
* Finland–Russia border barrier
* Iron diplomacy
* Proposed Russian annexation of South Ossetia
* Recognition of Russia as a terrorist state
* Removal of monuments and memorials
* Streets renamed
* Ukraine Square, Oslo
* Serving heads of state and government that have visited Ukraine during the invasion
* Sweden–NATO relations
* Swedish anti-terrorism bill

Public|

| Protests|

* In Ukraine
* in Russian-occupied Ukraine
* demolition of monuments to Alexander Pushkin
* ArmWomenNow
* Ukrainian Artistic Front
* In Russia
* Anti-War Committee
* Suspicious deaths of Russian businesspeople
* Club of Angry Patriots
* Congress of People's Deputies
* Collective responsibility
* Council of Mothers and Wives
* Feminist Anti-War Resistance
* Flower protests
* Marina Ovsyannikova
* Russian Action Committee
* North Caucasian protests
* 2022 Russian Far East protests
* State Duma initiative for charging Vladimir Putin of high treason
* White-blue-white flag
* In Belarus
* In China
* Great Translation Movement
* In Czech Republic
* Czech Republic First!

|

Companies|

* Address of the Russian Union of Rectors
* Boycott of Russia and Belarus
* "Do not buy Russian goods!"
* E.N.O.T. Corp.
* Igor Mangushev
* McDonald's in Russia
* NashStore [ru]
* People's Satellite
* Starlink satellites in Ukraine
* Stop Bloody Energy
* Vkusno i tochka
* Wagner Group
* Andrey Medvedev
* Wagner Line
* Yale CELI List of Companies

Technology|

* Anonymous and the invasion
* alerts.in.ua
* DDoS attacks on Romania
* DeepStateMap.Live
* IT Army of Ukraine
* Killnet
* Liveuamap
* Open-source intelligence
* peacenotwar
* Russian Asset Tracker
* Squad303 [pl]
* Ukraine Siren Alerts
* Wikipedia
* threat to block in Russia
* detention of Mark Bernstein

Spies|

* Diplomatic expulsions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
* Russian spies in the Russo-Ukrainian War

Other|

* 2022 Pulitzer Prize
* Association of Azovstal Defenders' Families
* Black Sea Grain Initiative
* Collaboration with Russia
* We Are Together with Russia
* Concert for Ukraine
* Free Buryatia Foundation
* Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum
* Global Tour for Peace
* Guide to the Free World
* Mozart Group
* Olena Zelenska Foundation
* Open letter from Nobel laureates
* Pavel Sudoplatov Battalion
* Russia's War Crimes House
* Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online
* Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
* Spain letter bomb attacks
* Yermak-McFaul Expert Group on Russian Sanctions
* Pavel Filatyev
* True Russia
* Wimbledon ban

Impact

| Effects|

* Aircraft losses
* Casualties
* journalists killed
* Russian generals killed
* Economic impact
* Inflation surge
* Moldovan energy crisis
* protests
* Protests in Europe
* in France
* Protests in Peru
* Russia–EU gas dispute
* 2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
* Russian debt default
* 2022 Russian oil price cap
* 2023 Russian oil products sanctions and price cap
* EU natural gas price cap
* Education
* End of the Whisky War
* Environmental impact
* Eurovision Song Contest 2022
* Russia
* Ukraine
* Eurovision Song Contest 2023
* Food crises
* Impact on theatre [uk]
* List of notable deaths
* Nuclear power plants
* Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis
* Nuclear threats
* Religion
* Russian emigration
* The Ark [ru]
* Ship losses
* Ukrainian cultural heritage
* art theft and looting
* damaged cultural sites
* Urengoy–Pomary–Uzhhorod pipeline explosion
* Women
* Ukrainian syndrome

|

Human rights|

* Humanitarian impact
* Ukrainian refugee crisis
* Sobieskiego 100
* UN Commission of Inquiry
* UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission

Terms and phrases|

* "And now I will show you where the attack on Belarus was prepared from"
* "Anglo-Saxons [ru]"
* "Grandpa in his bunker"
* "Good evening, we are from Ukraine"
* "Good Russians"
* "Orc"
* "Putin khuylo!"
* "Russia is here forever [ru]"
* "Russian warship, go fuck yourself"
* "Slava Ukraini!"
* "Special military operation [ru]"
* "To bomb Voronezh"
* "Strength is in truth"
* "Westsplaining"
* "Where have you been for eight years?"
* "Without you"

Popular culture|

| Songs|

* 12
* Bakhmut Fortress [uk]
* Bayraktar
* City of Mary
* Flowers of Minefields [uk]
* Generation Cancellation
* Generation Z
* Oyda
* Hey, Hey, Rise Up!
* Mama ŠČ!
* Oi u luzi chervona kalyna
* Slava Ukraini!
* Stefania
* Ukraine

|

Films|

* 20 Days in Mariupol
* Follow Me
* Ukraine on Fire 2 [uk]

Other|

* Babylon'13
* Back to the Cold War
* Borodianka cat [uk]
* Ghost of Kyiv
* Královec Region
* Madonna of Kyiv
* North Atlantic Fellas Organization
* Newspeak in Russia [ru; uk]
* Patron
* "Putler"
* Raccoon of Kherson [ru]
* Saint Javelin
* Saint Mariuburg [ru; uk]
* Vasylkiv maiolica rooster
* Vladimir Putin's meeting table
* Walk of the Brave
* Watermelon symbol
* "Z" military symbol

Key people

| Ukrainians|

* Volodymyr Zelenskyy
* speeches during the invasion
* visit to the United States
* visit to the United Kingdom
* visits to Europe
* Denys Shmyhal
* Denys Kireyev
* Denys Monastyrsky
* Denys Prokopenko
* Iryna Venediktova
* Kyrylo Budanov
* Mykola Oleschuk
* Oleksandr Pavlyuk
* Oleksandr Syrskyi
* Oleksii Reznikov
* Oleksiy Danilov
* Oleksiy Neizhpapa
* Ruslan Khomchak
* Sergiy Kyslytsya
* Serhiy Shaptala
* Valerii Zaluzhnyi
* Vitali Klitschko
* Yevhen Moisiuk

|

Russians|

* Vladimir Putin
* Aleksandr Dvornikov
* Aleksandr Lapin
* Aleksey Nagin
* Alexander Bortnikov
* Andrei Kolesnikov
* Andrei Sychevoi
* Andrey Belousov
* Andrey Vorobyov
* Dmitry Medvedev
* Gennady Zhidko
* Igor Kastyukevich
* Mikhail Mishustin
* Maria Lvova-Belova
* Nikolai Patrushev
* Oleg Salyukov
* Ramzan Kadyrov
* Roman Berdnikov
* Rustam Muradov
* Sergei Shoigu
* Sergey Surovikin
* Sergey Lavrov
* Sergey Naryshkin
* Timur Ivanov
* Valery Gerasimov
* Viktor Zolotov
* Vitaly Gerasimov
* Vyacheslav Gladkov
* Vyacheslav Volodin
* Yevgeny Prigozhin

Other|

* Alexander Lukashenko
* Denis Pushilin
* Leonid Pasechnik

Related

* Anti-Russian sentiment
* Anti-Ukrainian sentiment
* Antonov An-225 Mriya
* Azovstal Iron and Steel Works
* Belgorod accidental bombing
* Brovary helicopter crash
* Bryansk Oblast military aircraft crashes [ru]
* Derussification in Ukraine
* Demolition of monuments to Alexander Pushkin in Ukraine
* Foreign leaders that have visited during the invasion
* Irkutsk military aircraft crash
* Lady R incident
* Nord Stream 2
* Proposed Russian annexation of Transnistria
* Punisher
* Russian nuclear weapons
* Sarmat
* Russian military presence in Transnistria
* Ryazan military aircraft crash
* Siberian wildfires
* Soloti military training ground shooting
* Soviet imagery
* U-24 association
* Voronezh military aircraft crash
* Yeysk military aircraft crash
* Moldovan coup d'état attempt allegations
* 2023 visit by Joe Biden to Ukraine
* 2023 visit by Xi Jinping to Russia
* 2023 visit by Fumio Kishida to Ukraine

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