2025 Sumy Oblast incursion

Russian incursion to Ukraine Sumy Oblast

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Sumy front

Part of Northern Ukraine border skirmishes

Map of Sumy oblast as of 08 July 2025
| Date| 19 February 2025 – present
(4 months, 2 weeks and 6 days)

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Location|

Sumy Oblast, Ukraine

Status|  Ongoing
Territorial
changes|  Russian reoccupation of parts of Sumy Oblast
Belligerents
Russia|  Ukraine
Units involved

* 34th Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade
* 51st Airborne Regiment [uk]
* 56th Air Assault Regiment
* 76th Air Assault Division
* 83rd Air Assault Brigade
* Elements of the 810th Naval Infantry Brigade

* 15th Mobile Border Detachment
* 36th Marine Brigade
* 78th Airborne Assault Regiment
* 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade
* 4th Special Purpose Regiment
* Izmail Border Detachment
* 67th Mechanized Brigade
Strength
Per Wall Street Journal:
50,000[1]|  Per Wall Street Journal:
~16,600[1]
Casualties and losses
Ukrainian claim:
300-400 casualties per day[2]|  Russian claim:
255 killed
4 combat vehicles
14 vehicles
3 field guns[3]
56,000 residents evacuated,[4] and 2 injured

* v
* t
* e

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Timeline

*     * February – April 2022
* April – August 2022
* August – November 2022
* November 2022 – June 2023
* June – August 2023
* September – November 2023
* December 2023 – March 2024
* April – July 2024
* August – December 2024
* January 2025 – May 2025
* June 2025 – present

* * *

* Prelude
* Casualties
* Territorial control
* map
* List of engagements
* War crimes
* Attacks on civilians
* Economic impact
* Peace negotiations
* Collaboration with Russia
* Russian emigration
* Nuclear risk
* Humanitarian impacts
* Russian annexation
* Treatment of prisoners of war

2022–23 campaign

Northern front

* Antonov Airport
* Chernobyl
* Hostomel
* Kyiv
* Bucha
* massacre
* Irpin
* Makariv
* Moshchun
* Kozarovytska Dam
* Brovary
* Slavutych
* 1st Sumy
* Chernihiv
* Northern Ukraine skirmishes

* * *

Eastern front

* 1st Kharkiv
* Volnovakha
* Izium
* Rubizhne
* Popasna
* Battle of Donbas
* Siverskyi Donets
* Sievierodonetsk
* Lysychansk
* Pisky
* Bakhmut
* Soledar
* Vuhledar
* 2nd Kharkiv
* Lyman
* Russian winter offensive (2022–23)
* Marinka
* Avdiivka
* Luhansk Oblast

* * *

Southern front

* Mariupol
* 1st Kherson
* Melitopol
* Mykolaiv
* Enerhodar
* Voznesensk
* 2nd Kherson
* Kherson City
* Dnieper
* Kakhovka Dam
* Krynky
* 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive (Mala Tokmachka)

* * *

Other regions

* Strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure

* * *

Naval operations

* Snake Island

* * *

Spillover & related incidents

* Western Russia
* Bryansk Oblast
* Kremlin drone attack
* Belgorod Oblast incursion
* 2022 Russian mobilization
* Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
* Poland missile explosion
* Black Sea drone incident
* Wagner Group rebellion

2024–25 campaign

Northern Ukraine skirmishes

* 2nd Sumy
* Sumy strike

* * *

Eastern front

* Luhansk Oblast
* Kupiansk
* Northeast Donetsk
* Avdiivka
* Vuhledar
* Chasiv Yar
* Krasnohorivka
* Ocheretyne
* 3rd Kharkiv
* Kharkiv strikes
* Toretsk
* Pokrovsk
* Kurakhove
* Velyka Novosilka
* Novopavlivka

* * *

Southern front

* Dnieper
* Krynky

* * *

Ukrainian incursion

* Kursk
* Olgovskiy Forest
* Stream
* Belgorod incursion
* Tyotkino incursion

* * *

Other regions

* Strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure

* * *

Naval operations

* Tendra Spit

* * *

Spillover & related incidents

* Western Russia
* May 2024 Belgorod missile strike
* March 2024 western Russia incursion
* 2024 Ukrainian coup attempt allegations
* 2024 Ukrainian cyberattacks against Russia
* Toropets explosions
* North Korean involvement
* Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243
* Spider's Web

In an effort to counter Ukraine's 2024 offensive in Kursk, in early 2025 Russian forces launched cross-border incursions from Russia into Ukraine's adjacent Sumy Oblast.

On 10 January 2025, Russian troops crossed the international border into Ukraine's Sumy Oblast, advancing west of Zhuravka.[5] However, a few days later, the Ukrainian military claimed their forces had successfully pushed back the Russian attack.

In mid-February, Russian forces launched another cross-border incursion,[6][7][8][9] claiming to have entered the villages of Novenke and Basivka.[10] The former village was captured within a few days.[11]

By the end of February, Ukraine's Center for Combatting Disinformation acknowledged the presence of Russian forces, while DeepState described Basivka and Novenke as "gray zones."[12][13]

## Background

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Main articles: Russian occupation of Sumy Oblast and Battle of Sumy

Throughout 2024, Russian forces had launched limited cross-border attacks in Sumy Oblast, targeting the villages of Zhuravka, Chuikivka, Rozhkovychi, and Sytne, but all attempts ended in failure.[14][15] Russian troops raided the village of Ryzhivka in June 2024, located near the border, close to the Russian settlement of Tyotkino. Geolocation footage confirmed that Russian troops had entered the village and advanced approximately 730 meters into Ukraine.[16] However, the next day, Russian forces withdrew from the area.[16]

On 6 August 2024, Ukrainian forces launched an offensive into Russia's Kursk Oblast and occupied part of the region. On 15 August, they captured the town of Sudzha. Around the same time, Ukrainian military commander Oleksandr Syrskyi announced the establishment of a military administration in the occupied areas of Kursk Oblast, which was led by Major General Eduard Moskaliov as the head of the military command office.

## Incursion

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On 19 February 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on a televised broadcast that the 810th Brigade had crossed the border between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, entering Sumy Oblast.[7][8][9] However, this claim was denied by the head of Ukraine's Center for Combatting Disinformation, Andriy Kovalenko, as well as senior Ukrainian military officials.[17][18][19][20][21][excessive citations]

The following day, Russian sources reported that soldiers from the 810th Brigade had successfully entered Basivka, while Ukrainian sources confirmed that Russian forces had stormed the border in the Sumy Oblast.[10][6] Later, on 25 February, Russian forces again claimed that they had seized Novenke and were making progress toward northern Zhuravka [uk].[11] Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military acknowledged that Russian troops had crossed the border near Novenke but stated that they had successfully pushed them back into Russian territory.[22]

On 28 February, Ukraine's Center for Combatting Disinformation acknowledged that Russian forces were attacking along the international border near Basivka and Novenke. Meanwhile, DeepState described both Basivka and Novenke as "grey zones".[12][13] By March 2, Russian military bloggers claimed that Russian forces had captured Zhuravka.[23] Around the same time, DeepState reported that Russian troops had broken through near the settlements of Novenke and Zhuravka and were reinforcing their positions.[24] On 7 March 2025, Russian sources claimed that their armed forces had taken over Novenke,[25] and the next day, based on geolocation footage released, it's likely that Russian forces captured Novenke.[26][27]

After successfully recapturing the town of Sudzha, President Putin proposed establishing a "buffer zone" in Sumy Oblast to protect Kursk from future attacks.[28] Starting on 11 March, Russian forces advanced west of Basivka and southwest of Zhuravka.[29] in an effort to consolidate their positions in the region.[30][31][32] A Ukrainian official claimed that Russia was massing troops along the border in preparation for an "assault" on Sumy Oblast.[33]

By 23 March, Russian sources claimed their troops had moved into Volodymyrivka [uk].[34] A few days later, geolocated footage indicated that Russian forces had seized the border checkpoint between Sumy and Sudzha to the east of Basivka.[35][36] Ukrainian commander Syrskyi said that their forces are conducting a defensive operation to prevent Russian troops from advancing further into the northern Sumy region.[37]

At the end of March, geolocation footage showed that Russian forces captured Veselivka,[38] and the Russian Ministry of Defense also claimed that Russian troops had taken control of Veselivka.[39][40] However, Ukrainian officials denied the reports of the Russian breakthrough.[41][42]

On 6 April, footage showed Russian troops advancing south of Basivka.[43] At the same time, Russia's Defense Minister claimed they had already seized Basivka,[44][45][43] but Ukrainian officials denied it.[46][47] Between April 6 and 8, Russian troops made some temporary advances north of Loknya [uk], but failed to secure a foothold and got pushed back by the 4th Special Purpose Regiment.[48][49]

On April 9, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi said that Russia had already started their Spring offensive in northeastern Ukraine (Sumy Oblast).[50][51][52][53][54] At the same time, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned that Russia has gathered 67,000 troops ready to be deployed to Sumy.[50] Meanwhile, Ukrainian military observer Kostyantyn Mashovets estimated that around 62,000 to 65,000 Russian soldiers and border guards are currently in Kursk. He also reported that Russia's 76th Airborne Division and the 83rd VDV Brigade captured Basivka.[55]

On April 13, Russian state media claimed that their forces had seized 70 square kilometers in Sumy Oblast. However, the Institute for the Study of War reported that it could only confirm Russian control over 43.61 square kilometers in the region.[56]

On April 24, Russian forces were confirmed to have captured Basivka and advanced southwards into northern Loknya.[57] By May 8, geolocated footage showed that Russian forces have advanced to central Loknya.[58] Russian troops took full control of Loknya by 25 May.[59]

On May 26, geolocated footage showed that Russian forces seized Bilovody, northeast of Sumy.[60] Two days later, a Russian source claimed that Russian forces seized Kostyantynivka and Vodolahy, north of Sumy City but there was no footage to confirm that.[61] On May 31, the Russian ministry of defense announced that it had taken control of the village of Vodolahy.[62]

On June 1, a Ukrainian source indicated Russian control over the settlements of Oleksiivka, Varachyne, Yablunivka and Novomykolaivka.[63] On June 2, Ukrainian political scientist Viktor Bobyrenko said that Russian forces have took the village of Kindrativka located south of Kostyantynivka.[64]

On June 5, Ruslan Mykula, co-founder of the independent Ukrainian intelligence service DeepState UA, said that the main target of the incursion was the strategically important village of Yunakivka. Mykula believed capturing Yunakivka would provide forest cover for Russian infantry and fire control over Sumy city.[65] In the latest report of the war by DeepState, it assessed that Russian forces occupied the villages of Kindrativka and Oleksiivka, making Russian forces within 20 kilometres of Sumy proper and Sumy within range of artillery shelling and Russian FPV drone attacks.[66][67][68] DeepState also said that Russia is advancing to Sadky located southeast of Yunakivka for forest cover which "will be extremely difficult to knock it out of there" if Russia succeeds. [69][70] Ukrainian member of parliament Maryana Bezuglaya and former spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Vladislav Seleznyov said that all residents of Sumy must either join the defence forces or evacuate the city.[71]

On June 7-8, Russian forces moved into central Yunakivka.[72] On June 10, Russian forces took the highway in Yunakivka, cutting the town off of supplies and its logistics.[73][74] On June 22, Ukrainian forces took back Andriivka.[75][76] However, Russian forces retook the village four days later.[77]

## Opposing forces

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### Russia

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The 810th Naval Infantry Brigade was the first Russian unit known to have entered the Sumy Oblast when it was reported in mid-February that some of its units had crossed the border and entered the village of Basivka.[78][79] Amid their operations in Sumy Oblast throughout February and March, other elements of the 810th Brigade have remained in the area of Guyevo, Plekhovo, and Kurilovka [ru] in the Kursk Oblast.[80][81][82][83]

By early March, it was widely reported that the 83rd Air Assault Brigade, which had taken the Russian border village of Nikolayevo-Darino in January,[84] was operating around the neighboring village of Zhuravka [uk] in Sumy Oblast,[85][86][87][88] where it remained throughout the month.[89][90] On April 5, it was reported that the "Tigers" drone detachment of the brigade were using fibre optic FPV drones at the Kursk-Sumy border.[91]

By 22 February, it had been reported that the 56th Air Assault Regiment was operating near the border village of Novenke, in Sumy Oblast.[92] Throughout March 2025, it was reported that units of the regiment, including its drone units,[93] were operating within Sumy Oblast and along the international border.[94][95][96]

By late March, it was reported that the 51st Airborne Regiment [uk], which had been located in the Russian border villages of Sverdlikovo [ru] and Lebedevka [ru] the previous month,[79][92][80] had taken control of most of Basivka[95] and was present near the Sudzha border post.[96]

It was reported in late March that elements of the 34th Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade had advanced near the Ukrainian border village of Veselivka,[90] after having taken part in an operation to capture the village of Malaya Loknya in Kursk Oblast earlier in the month.[83]

On late June, The Wall Street Journal cited that Russian forces present at Sumy front totalled 50,000 with Ukrainian forces being one third of that number.[1]

### Ukraine

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Units of Ukraine's 36th Marine Brigade repelled a Russian assault (which they claimed involved North Korean forces) between Sverdlikovo and Novenke in mid-March 2025.[97] The 36th Brigade was still in defense of the border villages of Sumy Oblast by the end of March 2025.[98]

By late March, the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade was operating in a border village in Sumy Oblast.[99]

Ukraine's 78th Airborne Assault Regiment repelled a Russian attempt to cross the state border near the village of Zhuravka in February 2025.[6]

Throughout March, the 15th Mobile Border Detachment of Ukraine's State Border Guard Service engaged in combat with Russian forces on the border of the Sumy Oblast.[100][101]

On March 21, the Ukrainian media outlet Ukrainska Pravda interviewed soldiers from the 67th Mechanized Brigade who had been deployed to defend the villages of Zhuravka, Novenke, and the surrounding area of Basivka.[102]

On 4 April, soldiers from the Izmail Border Detachment of Ukraine's State Border Guard Service caught a lost Russian soldier who was delivering food supplies to his unit.[103]

On 6 April, the 4th Special Purpose Regiment pushed back Russian troops who tried to attack Loknya.[48]

## Casualties

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### Civilian casualties

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On 12 March, Russia carried out mortar and artillery attacks on the Myropillia hromada, injuring an adult man.[104]

On 22 March, Ukrainian media reported that the Ukraine's State Emergency Service evacuated 31 people—including three children—from the border area of Sumy Oblast.[105] On 30 March, while Ukraine's State Emergency Service was evacuating civilians from the Sumy border region, Russian forces launched an attack in the area, leaving one man injured.[106]

On 12 April, during an interview with Ukrainian media, Volodymyr Artiukh, head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration, said that 15,000 people had been evacuated from the Krasnopillia, Myropillia, Yunakivka, and Khotin communities.[107]

On 8 May 2025, Russia reportedly violated its own ceasefire for Victory Day when Russian forces dropped guided bombs on residential areas near the border in Sumy Oblast leaving 1 person dead and 2 wounded.[108]

### Military casualties

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#### Russian

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On 12 March, the spokesperson for the State Border Guard Service, Andrii Demchenko, claimed that around 20 Russian soldiers were killed near the border area, while approximately 15 others were wounded.[109]

On 4 April , soldiers from the Izmail detachment of Ukraine's State Border Guard Service captured a Russian soldier.[103] On 8 April, Rangers from the 4th Regiment of Ukraine's Armed Forces Special Operations Forces grabbed another Russian soldier while clearing the settlement of Loknya.[110]

#### Ukrainian

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On 7 June 2025, Yaroslav Yakimkin, head of the press center for the Russian Northern Group, claimed that 255 Ukrainian soldiers had become casualties while Ukrainian forces also lost 4 combat vehicles, 14 vehicles, 3 field guns, 1 electronic warfare station, and 1 ammunition depot.[3]

## Analysis

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When soldiers from the 67th Mechanized Brigade, stationed to defend the villages of Zhuravka, Novenke, and the area around Basivka, were interviewed by Ukrainska Pravda on March 21, they shared their views on the current situation. They believe that the primary objective of Russia’s operations in the Sumy Oblast is to push Ukrainian forces back from the Kursk Oblast and, more importantly, to cut off access to the main logistical route connecting Sumy, Yunakivka, and Sudzha. According to them, a large-scale assault on the Sumy Oblast—particularly from the direction of Basivka, where Ukrainian defenses have been fortified—is not necessarily the main scenario Russia is pursuing on that front.[102]

According to Ukrainian People's Deputy Roman Kostenko, the Russian incursion into Sumy Oblast was improvised rather than part of a premeditated strategic plan. Kostenko stated that Ukrainian forces had expected to hold their defensive positions in Kursk, believing Russian troops would be directed toward Pokrovsk instead. However, this expectation was upended at the last moment. "Something happened that was not planned. No one planned that they would now withdraw (the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Kursk – ed.), and the enemy would advance. This decided the battlefield. If there was an opportunity to hold the battlefield in the direction of Kursk, we would have held it, but, unfortunately, we could not," says Kostenko.[111]

Analysts have noted that the Russian advance in Sumy Oblast differs in both pace and character from other fronts. Retired Ukrainian major Ihor Lapin and political analyst Viktor Bobyrenko, head of the Expert Group at the Bureau of Policy Analysis, observed that Russian troops—despite a reported force of 50,000 near the Kursk border[112][113]—are advancing in small infantry groups, often using motorcycles. This tactic is considered effective in the Sumy region due to the area's dense forests, wetlands, and other natural obstacles that limit the utility of heavy armored vehicles and heavy equipment.[114]

Bobyrenko desbribed the situation: "It is clear that tanks will not pass here, this is an infantry war, DRG. If the enemy crosses the highway and enters the forest zone, not just forest belts like in the east, but classic forests, then the problem will be that this is solid greenery, and we will not be able to drive them away with drones. The enemy from the northeast reached the outskirts of Yunakivka, and from the northwest - already in Kindrativka, respectively, there are 10 km left to Khotin, where there are forests. In Sumy region, the number of forests is greater than near Pokrovsk or somewhere in the Zaporizhia direction, so for the summer offensive of the invader this may be an advantage, because here the most effective technical means is a moped or feet." [64]

## See also

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* Kupiansk offensive
* Novopavlivka offensive
* Battle of Chasiv Yar
* Battle of Toretsk

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Russian invasion of Ukraine

Part of the Russo-Ukrainian War

Overview

General|

* Outline
* Timeline
* Prelude
* Feb–Apr 2022
* Apr–Aug 2022
* Aug–Nov 2022
* Nov 2022 – Jun 2023
* Jun–Aug 2023
* Sep–Nov 2023
* Dec 2023 – Mar 2024
* Apr–Jul 2024
* Aug–Dec 2024
* Jan–May 2025
* Jun 2025 – present
* Aerial warfare
* Defense lines
* Foreign fighters
* Information war
* Naval warfare
* Legality
* Map
* Order of battle
* Peace negotiations
* Ukraine's Peace Formula
* China peace proposal
* June 2024 peace summit
* Proposed no-fly zone
* Red lines
* Reparations
* Territorial control
* Women

Prelude|

* Reactions
* Disinformation
* Ukraine bioweapons conspiracy theory
* Ukraine and weapons of mass destruction
* 2021 Russia–United States summit
* 2021 Black Sea incident
* Belarus–European Union border crisis
* "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians"
* Crimea Platform
* Zapad 2021
* December 2021 ultimatum
* 2022 Ukraine cyberattacks
* Zametil 2022
* Union Resolve 2022
* Stanytsia Luhanska kindergarten bombing
* British–Polish–Ukrainian trilateral pact
* Evacuation of the Donetsk PR and Luhansk PR
* Mobilization in Donetsk PR and Luhansk PR
* "Address concerning the events in Ukraine"
* "On conducting a special military operation"

Background|

* Dissolution of the Soviet Union
* 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
* Annexation of Crimea
* reactions
* 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
* Ukraine–United States
* Russia–NATO
* Ukraine–NATO
* enlargement of NATO
* eastward expansion controversy in Russia
* open door policy

Military engagements

Southern
Ukraine|

* Snake Island campaign
* Siege of Mariupol
* Battle of Kherson
* Capture of Melitopol
* Battle of Mykolaiv
* Battle of Enerhodar
* Battle of Voznesensk
* Kherson counteroffensive
* Liberation of Kherson
* Dnieper campaign
* Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam

Eastern
Ukraine|

* Battle of Volnovakha
* Battle of Kharkiv
* Battle of Izium
* Battle of Rubizhne
* Battle of Popasna
* Battle of Marinka
* Battle of Donbas
* Battle of the Siverskyi Donets
* Battle of Sievierodonetsk
* Battle of Lysychansk
* Battle of Pisky
* Battle of Bakhmut
* Battle of Soledar
* Battle of Vuhledar
* Kharkiv counteroffensive
* Battle of Lyman (September–October 2022)
* Luhansk Oblast campaign
* Kupiansk
* Northeast Donetsk
* Battle of Avdiivka
* Battle of Chasiv Yar
* Battle of Krasnohorivka
* Battle of Ocheretyne
* Battle of Toretsk
* Pokrovsk offensive
* Battle of Kurakhove

Northern
Ukraine|

* Capture of Chernobyl
* Russian Kyiv convoy
* Battle of Kyiv
* Battle of Antonov Airport
* Battle of Hostomel
* Battle of Bucha
* Battle of Irpin
* Battle of Makariv
* Battle of Moshchun
* Destruction of the Kozarovychi Dam
* Battle of Brovary
* Battle of Slavutych
* Battle of Sumy
* Siege of Chernihiv
* Northeastern border skirmishes
* 2025 Sumy Oblast incursion

Russia|

* Bryansk Oblast raid
* Kremlin drone attack
* Moscow drone strikes
* 2023 Belgorod Oblast incursions
* 30 December 2023 Belgorod shelling
* February 2024 Belgorod missile strike
* May 2024 Belgorod missile strike
* March 2024 western Russia incursion
* 2024 Kursk offensive
* occupation
* Battles for Olgovskiy Forest
* Toropets depot explosions
* 2025 Belgorod Oblast incursion

Airstrikes
by city|

* Chernihiv strikes
* Dnipro strikes
* Huliaipole strikes
* Ivano-Frankivsk strikes
* Kharkiv strikes
* Kherson strikes
* Khmelnytskyi strikes
* Kryvyi Rih strikes
* Kyiv strikes
* Lviv strikes
* Mykolaiv strikes
* Odesa strikes
* Rivne strikes
* Vinnytsia strikes
* Zaporizhzhia strikes
* Zhytomyr strikes

Airstrikes
on military
targets|

* Chuhuiv air base attack
* Millerovo air base attack
* Chornobaivka attacks
* 7 March 2022 Mykolaiv military barracks attack
* Yavoriv military base attack
* 18 March 2022 Mykolaiv military quarters attack
* Berdiansk port attack
* Sinking of the Moskva
* Desna barracks airstrike
* Attack on Nova Kakhovka
* Crimea attacks
* Saky air base attack
* Drone attack on the Sevastopol Naval Base
* Missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters
* Dyagilevo and Engels air bases attacks
* Makiivka military quarters shelling
* Machulishchy air base attack
* Zarichne barracks airstrike
* Operation Spider's Web

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
* Elections in Russian-occupied Ukraine
* Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine
* Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol
* Donetsk Oblast
* Kharkiv Oblast
* Kherson Oblast
* Luhansk Oblast
* Mykolaiv Oblast
* Zaporizhzhia Oblast
* Sumy Oblast (2025, reentry)

Previous|

* Chernihiv Oblast
* Kyiv Oblast
* Odesa Oblast
* Sumy Oblast (2022)
* Zhytomyr Oblast

Potentially
related|

* Black Sea drone incident
* Bridge collapses in Russia
* Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant drone strike
* Mystery fires in Russia
* Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
* Transnistria attacks
* Zagreb Tu-141 crash

Other|

* 2022 Crimean Bridge explosion
* 2023 Crimean Bridge explosion
* 2025 Crimean Bridge explosion
* Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy
* Coup d'état attempt in Ukraine
* Bridges in the Russo-Ukrainian War
* Dragon drone
* Violations of non-combatant airspaces
* Missile explosion in Poland
* Operation Synytsia
* Ukraine and electronic warfare
* Use of long-range weapons by Ukraine in Russia
* 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
* 2024 Ukrainian cyberattacks against Russia
* Wagner Group rebellion

War crimes

General|

* Accusations of genocide in Donbas
* Allegations of genocide of Ukrainians
* child abductions
* Attacks on hospitals
* Cluster munitions
* Incendiary weapons
* Landmines
* Russian filtration camps
* Russian mobile crematoriums
* Russian theft of Ukrainian grain
* Russian torture chambers
* Looting
* Sexual violence
* Mistreatment of prisoners 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 2022 Donetsk attack
* 2022 Borodianka airstrikes
* Chernihiv breadline attack
* Mariupol theatre airstrike
* 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 2022 Donetsk attack
* Zaporizhzhia civilian convoy attack
* Kupiansk civilian convoy shelling
* Zaporizhzhia residential building airstrike
* Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
* 2023 Dnipro residential building airstrike
* Sloviansk airstrike
* Uman missile strike
* Kramatorsk restaurant missile strike
* Lyman cluster bombing
* 2023 Pokrovsk missile strike
* Chernihiv missile strike
* Kostiantynivka missile strike
* Hroza missile attack
* Volnovakha massacre
* December 2023 strikes
* 2024 Pokrovsk missile strike
* 2024 Donetsk attack
* Lysychansk missile strike
* 6 March 2024 Odesa strike
* March 2024 strikes
* Human safari (terror campaign)
* May 2024 Kharkiv strikes
* 8 July 2024 strikes
* 2024 Kostiantynivka supermarket missile attack
* 26 August 2024 strikes
* September 2024 Poltava strike
* November 2024 strikes
* February 2025 Poltava strike
* 2025 Sumy airstrike

Crimes
against
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
* 2022 Ukrainian prisoner of war beheading

Legal cases|

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

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
* Relations with Russia

|

Ukraine|

* Application to NATO
* Be Brave Like Ukraine
* Brave1
* Bring Kids Back UA
* Ban on Russia-associated religious groups
* Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War
* Decolonization and derussification law
* 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
* Black Maple Company
* Canadian-Ukrainian Brigade
* Freedom of Russia Legion
* German Volunteer Corps
* Karelian National Battalion
* Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment
* Norman Brigade
* Pahonia Regiment
* Polish Volunteer Corps
* Romanian Battlegroup Getica
* Russian Volunteer Corps
* Separate Special Purpose Battalion
* Sibir Battalion
* Turan Battalion
* International Sponsors of War
* Forced confiscation law of Russian property [ru; uk]
* Look for Your Own
* Lukoil sanctions
* 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
* Recognition of Ichkeria
* Rescuer City
* Save Ukrainian Culture [uk]
* Syria–Ukraine relations
* Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra
* United24
* United News

Russia|

* highways in the annexed territories
* A290
* A291 "Tavrida"
* R260
* R280 "Novorossiya"
* 2022 Moscow rally
* 2023 Moscow rally
* 2022 Moscow Victory Day Parade
* 2023 Moscow Victory Day Parade
* 2024 Moscow Victory Day Parade
* 2023 Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly
* Blockade of Ukraine [ru]
* Bohdan Khmelnytsky Battalion
* Censorship in Russia [ru]
* Chechnya
* Pro-Ukrainian Chechen fighters
* Conmemorative Medal "Participant of a Special Military Operation" [ru]
* Conversations about Important Things
* Krasovsky case
* Legalization of parallel imports [ru]
* Manifesto of the South Russian People's Council
* Martial law
* Masha Moskalyova case
* Metropolis of Crimea
* Mikhail Simonov case
* Mobilization
* Recruitment of irregular forces [ru]
* Operation Doppelgänger
* Opinion polling [ru]
* Orthodox Christmas truce proposal
* Wagner Group–Ministry of Defense conflict
* Russian Orthodox clergymen appeal against war
* Salvation Committee for Peace and Order
* Special Coordinating Council
* Ukraine bioweapons conspiracy theory
* Unfriendly countries list
* War censorship laws
* We Are Together. Sports
* "What Russia Should Do with Ukraine"

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
* Canada
* Canada–Ukraine authorization for emergency travel
* China
* Closer ties with Russia
* Chinese peace plan
* Hong Kong
* Croatia
* Denmark
* Danish European Union defence opt-out referendum
* France
* Mission Aigle
* Georgia
* Germany
* German Taurus controversy
* Taurus leak
* Zeitenwende speech
* Hungary
* India
* Operation Ganga
* Iran
* Closer ties with Russia
* Israel
* Operation Israel Guarantees
* Lithuania
* Moldova
* New Zealand
* Russia Sanctions Act
* North Korea
* Poland
* border crisis with Ukraine
* Syria [ru]
* Taiwan
* United Kingdom
* Economic Crime Act
* Homes for Ukraine
* Operation Interflex
* 2025 London Summit on Ukraine
* Coalition of the willing

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
* Resolution ES-11/6
* Resolution ES-11/7
* Security Council Resolution 2623
* Resolution A/RES/77/229
* Easter truce

International
organizations|

* Accession of Moldova to the EU
* Accession of Ukraine to the EU
* Brussels summit
* European Political Community
* 1st summit
* 2nd summit
* 3rd summit
* Madrid summit
* NATO virtual summit
* Operation Oscar
* Ramstein Air Base meeting
* EU–Ukraine Summit
* REPowerEU
* Steadfast Defender 2024
* SWIFT ban against Russian banks
* Ukraine Recovery Conference
* Versailles declaration
* 2023 Vilnius summit
* 15th BRICS summit
* 2024 Washington summit
* Weimar+

Other|

* Consecration of Russia
* F-16 training coalition
* 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
* Angry patriots
* Club of Angry Patriots
* Anti-War Committee
* Suspicious deaths of Russian businesspeople
* Congress of People's Deputies
* 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
* Vkusno i tochka
* NashStore [ru]
* People's Satellite
* Starlink satellites
* Stop Bloody Energy
* Wagner Group
* Andrey Aleksandrovich Medvedev
* Death of Nemes Tarimo
* Yale CELI List of Companies

Technology|

* Anonymous and the invasion
* alerts.in.ua
* DDoS attacks on Romania
* DeepStateMap.Live
* Denys Davydov
* 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|

* 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
* Game4Ukraine
* Get Lost
* Global Tour for Peace
* Go by the Forest
* Guide to the Free World
* Mozart Group
* Olena Zelenska Foundation
* Open letter from Nobel laureates
* Pavel Sudoplatov Battalion
* Rubikus.HelpUA
* Ruslan Shostak Charitable Foundation
* Russia's War Crimes House
* Save Ukraine
* Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online
* Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
* Spain letter bomb attacks
* Yermak-McFaul Expert Group on Russian Sanctions
* Pavel Filatyev
* True Russia
* Volos Declaration
* Wimbledon ban

Impact

Effects|

* Aircraft losses
* Casualties
* journalists killed
* Russian generals killed
* Economic impact
* Inflation surge
* 2022 Moldovan energy crisis
* protests
* 2025 Moldovan energy crisis
* Russia–EU gas dispute
* 2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
* Russian debt default
* 2022 Russian oil price cap
* 2022-2024 German economic crisis
* 2023 Russian oil products sanctions and price cap
* EU natural gas price cap
* Education
* End of the Whisky War
* Environmental impact
* European re-armament
* Eurovision Song Contest 2022
* Russia
* Ukraine
* Eurovision Song Contest 2023
* Food crises
* Impact on theatre [uk]
* List of notable deaths
* Lukoil oil transit dispute
* Nuclear power plants
* Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis
* Nuclear risk
* Religion
* Russian emigration
* The Ark
* Ship losses
* Ukrainian cultural heritage
* art theft and looting
* damaged cultural sites
* Trauma
* Urengoy–Pomary–Uzhhorod pipeline explosion
* Ukrainian energy crisis
* Violations of non-combatant airspaces
* Women

Human
rights|

* Humanitarian impact
* Ukrainian refugee crisis
* 2025 Amsterdam stabbing attack
* 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"
* "Bavovna"
* "Grandpa in his bunker"
* "Good evening, we are from Ukraine"
* "Orc"
* "Putin khuylo!"
* "Khuy Voyne!"
* "Russia is here forever [uk]"
* "Russian warship, go fuck yourself"
* "Slava Ukraini!"
* "Special military operation"
* "To bomb Voronezh"
* "Strength is in truth"
* "Westsplaining"
* "Where have you been for eight years?"
* "Without you"

Popular
culture|

| Songs|

* "12"
* "Bakhmut Fortress"
* "Bayraktar"
* "Bilia topoli"
* "City of Mary"
* "Flowers of Minefields"
* "Generation Cancellation"
* "Generation Z"
* "I'm Russian"
* "Oyda"
* "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!"
* "Mama ŠČ!"
* "Oi u luzi chervona kalyna"
* "Slava Ukraini!"
* "Stefania"
* "Ukraine"
* "Crushed"

|

Films|

* 20 Days in Mariupol
* A Rising Fury
* Follow Me
* Intercepted
* Russians at War
* Turn in the Wound
* Ukraine on Fire 2 [uk]

Other|

* Babylon'13
* Back to the Cold War
* Borodianka cat [uk]
* Ghost of Kyiv
* Kherson watermelon
* Královec Region
* Madonna of Kyiv
* North Atlantic Fella Organization
* Newspeak in Russia
* Patron
* "Putler"
* "Putinversteher"
* Raccoon of Kherson
* Saint Javelin
* Saint Mariuburg [ru; uk]
* Vasylkiv maiolica rooster
* Vladimir Putin's meeting table
* Walk of the Brave
* "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
* Anatolii Kryvonozhko
* Anatoliy Barhylevych
* Andrii Hnatov
* Andriy Biletsky
* Andriy Yermak
* Denys Shmyhal
* Denys Kireyev  X
* Denys Monastyrsky  †
* Denys Prokopenko
* Ihor Klymenko
* Iryna Venediktova
* Kyrylo Budanov
* Mykhailo Drapatyi
* Mykola Oleschuk
* Oleksandr Pavlyuk
* Oleksandr Syrskyi
* Oleksii Reznikov
* Oleksiy Danilov
* Oleksiy Neizhpapa
* Ruslan Khomchak
* Rustem Umerov
* Sergiy Kyslytsya
* Serhiy Shaptala
* Serhii Sternenko
* Valerii Zaluzhnyi
* Vasyl Malyuk
* Vitali Klitschko
* Yevhen Moisiuk

Russians|

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

Other|

* Alexander Lukashenko
* Denis Pushilin
* Leonid Pasechnik
* Sergey Aksyonov
* Vitaly Ganchev
* Vladimir Saldo
* Yevgeny Balitsky
* Yuriy Barbashov

Related

* 2023 North Korea–Russia summit
* 2023 visit by Joe Biden to Ukraine
* 2023 visit by Fumio Kishida to Ukraine
* 2023 visit by Xi Jinping to Russia
* 2023 visit by Yoon Suk Yeol to Ukraine
* 2025 Putin–Trump call
* Anti-drone mesh
* Anti-Russian sentiment
* Anti-Ukrainian sentiment
* Antonov An-225 Mriya
* Axis of Upheaval
* Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243
* Azovstal Iron and Steel Works
* Brovary helicopter crash
* Bryansk Oblast military aircraft crashes
* Claims of Vladimir Putin's incapacity and death
* Decolonization in Ukraine
* Decommunization in Ukraine
* Derussification in Ukraine
* Demolition of monuments to Alexander Pushkin in Ukraine
* Foreign leaders that have visited during the invasion
* Institute for the Study of War
* Irkutsk Su-30 crash
* Ivanovo Ilyushin Il-76 crash
* Korochansky Ilyushin Il-76 crash
* Kyivstar cyberattack
* Lady R incident
* Moldovan coup d'état attempt allegations
* Nord Stream 2
* Proposed Russian annexation of Transnistria
* Punisher
* Russian nuclear weapons
* Sarmat
* Rico Krieger
* Russian military presence in Transnistria
* Ryazan Il-76 crash
* Siberian wildfires
* Sinhury mid-air collision [uk; zh]
* Soloti military training ground shooting
* Soviet imagery
* Territorial Center of Recruitment and Social Support
* Turtle tank
* U-24 association
* Ukrainian-African Renaissance
* Ukrainian conscription crisis
* Western long-range weapons in Russia
* Ural Airlines Flight 1383
* "The Vladimir Putin Interview"
* Voronezh An-26 crash
* Wagner Group plane crash
* Yeysk Su-34 crash
* Yaroslav Hunka scandal
* Time of Heroes

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