Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the biggest attack on a European country since World War II when he ordered the invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Here is a timeline of the main developments
At dawn on 24 February 2022, after repeatedly denying plans to invade Ukraine, Mr Putin announces a"special military operation" to demilitarise and"de-Nazify" the former Soviet country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stays in the capital Kyiv to lead the resistance, despite the United States warning that Russia is out to"decapitate" his government. Moscow's troops also attempt to encircle Kyiv and heavily bombard Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, near the Russian border.A month into the fighting, having failed to break through to Kyiv, the Russian army withdraws from northern Ukraine to focus on the east and south.On 2 April, the bodies of at least 20 civilians, some with their hands tied behind their backs, are found lying on a single street in the northwestern Kyiv suburb of Bucha.
Around 2,000 Ukrainian fighters hold out for nearly a month in the city's sprawling Azovstal steelworks before being ordered in May by Kyiv to surrender to the Russians to save their lives.
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