Arrows indicating troop movements are as per sources listed on the graphics. Maps of troop movements and areas of control are correct at the time of publication and will be subject to change. Russian areas of control are also sourced from the Institute for the Study of War with AEI’s Critical Threats Project, while arrows of Russian movement are sourced from Rochan Consulting. Note: Events plotted are based on the Guardian’s reporting along with information from several other sources: the Institute for the Study of War with AEI’s Critical Threats Project, Rochan Consulting, Janes, the Centre for Information Resilience and the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Efforts. There is particular concern about Mariupol, an encircled port city of 430,000 where local officials estimate that a siege has killed more than 2,300 people and left residents desperate for food, water, heat and medicine. Rochan Consulting assesses that, except in southern parts of Ukraine, Russian forces’ progress has stalled.Īs the humanitarian situation has become increasingly desperate, more than 3 million people have fled for Poland and other neighbouring countries. The three others were centred on cities that still remained under Ukrainian control: seizing Kharkiv and linking up with forces in Luhansk controlling Mariupol and building a land bridge from Crimea and Donetsk and advancing westward from Russian-controlled Kherson.īut things are not going to plan. It is a strategy that has so far failed in other cities such as Sumy, Kharkiv and Mariupol.Īfter three weeks of fighting, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) with AEI’s Critical Threats Project said Russian forces were engaged in four primary efforts, with an attempt to encircle Kyiv the main thrust. Russia steps up its artillery and airstrikes on the city in an apparent attempt to degrade defending forces' capacity and morale. Nowhere is this resistance stronger than in the increasingly fortified capital, Kyiv. with Russia now trying to tighten the grip on Kyiv
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