Ukraine in maps: Tracking the war with Russia

Russia has targeted cities crossed Ukraine successful a caller question of rocket strikes.

Here are the latest developments:

Russian missiles person struck targets successful cities crossed Ukraine, sidesplitting astatine slightest 9 people.

Buildings and infrastructure were deed successful Kyiv, Odesa and Kharkiv, with powerfulness blackouts successful respective areas.

Ukraine said Russia had fired 81 missiles, the largest fig successful a azygous question for respective weeks.

Five radical were killed successful Lviv, portion different targets included Dnipro, Kherson and Zhytomyr.

A onslaught astatine the Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness presumption has chopped the works disconnected from the Ukrainian powerfulness system, according to the atomic vigor relation Euratom.

For the sixth clip since it was taken implicit by Russia a twelvemonth ago, the installation is present operating connected diesel generators, which person capable supplies to past astatine slightest 10 days.

Ukrainian forces are holding connected successful the eastbound metropolis of Bakhmut, nether aggravated unit from regular Russian troops and Wagner radical mercenaries warring connected the Russian side.

On Wednesday, the Wagner radical person Yevgeny Prigozhin said that his forces had captured each of eastbound Bakhmut.

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said that the assertion was "consistent with disposable ocular evidence".

Many subject analysts accidental the metropolis is of constricted strategical significance. "Russian forces stay improbable to rapidly exploit a breakthrough beyond Bakhmut if Russian forces seizure the city," says the ISW.

The UK Ministry of Defence noted successful December that capturing the metropolis "would perchance let Russia to endanger the larger municipality areas of Kramatorsk and Slovyansk".

Western officials estimation betwixt 20,000 and 30,000 Russian troops person been killed oregon injured truthful acold successful and astir Bakhmut.

The warring is portion of a Russian outpouring offensive, which galore analysts accidental is present nether way.

Michael Kofman, of the US-based Center for Naval Analysis, says that, truthful far, Russia's gains person been "underwhelming".

But, helium adds, Ukraine whitethorn conflict to find weaknesses successful Russia's defences to equine a counter-attack, arsenic Russian unit positions person been heavy reinforced.

In the southbound of the country, artillery strikes proceed astir Kherson.

Russian troops withdrew to the near bank, oregon eastbound side, of the Dnipro River successful November.

Strikes by Ukrainian forces equipped with US-supplied Himars aggregate rocket launchers had made Russian positions unsustainable.

On Wednesday, Ukraine said its forces had destroyed a Russian ammunition depot to the westbound of Kherson.

But galore analysts measure that the beforehand lines astir the metropolis are improbable to alteration successful the abbreviated word arsenic Russia has built beardown defences for its troops and instrumentality successful the area.

Russia's penetration began with dozens of rocket strikes connected cities each implicit Ukraine earlier dawn connected 24 February 2022.

Russian crushed troops moved successful rapidly and wrong a fewer weeks were successful power of ample areas of Ukraine.

They had precocious to the suburbs of Kyiv, and controlled overmuch of the north-east of the state astir Sumy.

Russian forces were bombarding Kharkiv, and they had taken territory successful the eastbound and southbound arsenic acold arsenic Kherson, and surrounded the larboard metropolis of Mariupol.

But, they deed precise beardown Ukrainian absorption astir everyplace and faced superior logistical problems with poorly motivated Russian troops suffering shortages of food, h2o and ammunition.

Ukrainian forces were besides speedy to deploy Western supplied arms specified arsenic the Nlaw anti-tank system, which proved highly effectual against the Russian advance.

More Western arms followed and by October the representation had changed dramatically - having failed to instrumentality Kyiv, Russia had withdrawn wholly from the north.

Ukraine had its archetypal large success, pushing Russia backmost from Kharkiv, and counter-attacking astir Kherson.

One twelvemonth since the invasion, Ukraine is successful power of Kherson and mostly containing, for now, the Russian beforehand successful the east.

By David Brown, Bella Hurrell, Dominic Bailey, Mike Hills, Lucy Rodgers, Paul Sargeant, Alison Trowsdale, Tural Ahmedzade, Mark Bryson, Zoe Bartholomew, Sean Willmott, Sana Dionysiou, Joy Roxas, Gerry Fletcher, Jana Tauschinsk, Debie Loizou, Simon Martin and Prina Shah.

To amusement cardinal areas wherever advances are taking spot we are besides utilizing regular updates from the UK Ministry of Defence and BBC research.

The concern successful Ukraine is accelerated moving and it is apt determination volition beryllium times erstwhile determination person been changes not reflected successful the maps.