Russo-Ukrainian War
Part of post-Soviet conflicts
Zones of control in Ukraine as of 24 January 2024    Controlled by Ukraine    Occupied by Russia For a more detailed map, see the Russo-Ukrainian War detailed map
Date 20 February 2014 – present (9 years, 11 months and 4 days) Location Ukraine Status Ongoing
Commanders and leaders
Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy Petro Poroshenko Oleksandr Turchynov Oleksii Reznikov Valerii Zaluzhnyi	Russia Vladimir Putin Sergei Shoigu Valery Gerasimov Yevgeny Prigozhin Ramzan Kadyrov

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Russo-Ukrainian War:

Russo-Ukrainian War – ongoing international conflict between Russia, alongside Russian-backed separatists, and Ukraine, which began in February 2014. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine and supported pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas war. The first eight years of conflict also included naval incidents, cyberwarfare, and heightened political tensions. In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Overview of articles

Top level overview articles

• Russo-Ukrainian War
• War in Donbas (2014–2022)

Major overview subdivisions

• Prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Ukrainian resistance during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Timelines

• Timeline of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
• Timeline of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
• Timeline of the war in Donbas
  • 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
• Timeline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine:
  • Early 2021 – 23 February 2022 : Prelude
  • 24 February – 7 April 2022 : Initial invasion
  • 8 April – 28 August 2022 : Southeastern front
  • 29 August – 11 November 2022 : 2022 Ukrainian counteroffensives
  • 12 November 2022 – 7 June 2023 : Second stalemate
  • 8 June 2023 – 31 August 2023 : 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive (8 June – 31 August 2023)
  • 1 September 2023 – 30 November 2023 : 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive (1 September 2023 – 30 November 2023)
  • 1 December 2023 – present : Second winter

Years in Russia

• 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

Years in Ukraine

• 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

Subjects

An alphabetical list of subjects related to the war. Articles related to a subject are listed alphabetically under the main subject.

Participants

• Combatants of the war in Donbas
• Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War
• Ukrainian resistance during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Historical background

Prelude to the war

A chronological list of articles about the period immediately prelude to war; for earlier articles see the Historical background section.

Civil Defense

• Martial law in Ukraine
• Mobilization in Ukraine

Communications and the media

• Look for Your Own
• Never Ever Can We Be Brothers
• I Want to Live (hotline)

Media

Slogans, visual expressions, and symbols

Propaganda, sham elections, and disinformation

Crimea

• Russian occupation of Crimea

Economics and food

• Black Sea Grain Initiative
• Economic impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Grain From Ukraine program
• People's Bayraktar
• 2022 Russian crude oil price cap sanctions
• Signmyrocket.com

Effects within Russia

• 2022 Russian martial law
• 2022 Russian mobilization
• 2022 Moscow rally
• 2022 Moscow Victory Day Parade

Elections and referendums

• 2014 Donbas general elections
• 2014 Donbas status referendums
• 2014 Ukrainian presidential election

Energy

• Russia–Ukraine gas disputes
• Nord Stream, Nord Stream 2
• Russia in the European energy sector

Gender

• LGBT topics in the Russo-Ukrainian War
• Women in the war in Donbas
• Women in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Human rights, war crimes, genocide

Human rights

• Humanitarian situation during the war in Donbas
• 2022 mobilization in the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic

War crimes

Sexual violence

Genocide

• Accusations of genocide in Donbas
• Allegations of genocide of Ukrainians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• What Russia Should Do with Ukraine

Dislocation of the Ukrainian population

The following section includes forced movement (e.g. ethnic cleansing) and crisis movement (e.g. war refugees/evacuees).

• Russian filtration camps for Ukrainians
• 2022 evacuation of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic
• Ukrainian refugee crisis (2022–present)
• 2022 mobilization in the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic

Prosecution of war criminals

• Trial of Vadim Shishimarin
• Trial of Alexander Bobikin and Alexander Ivanov
• International Criminal Court arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova

Other subjects

• Russian usage of mobile crematoriums in Ukraine
• 2014 Russian sabotage activities in Ukraine

Public opinion and national morale

• Be Brave Like Ukraine
• Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra
• United24
• United News (telethon)
• Destroyed Russian military equipment exhibition

Nationalism

• Pan-Slavism

Russian

Ukrainian

Occupations

Overviews

• Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine

Areas

Peace issues

• Minsk agreements
• Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Crimea Platform

Prisoners of war

• Torture of Russian soldiers in Mala Rohan
• Torture and castration of a Ukrainian POW in Pryvillia
• Murder of Yevgeny Nuzhin
• Makiivka surrender incident

Psychological

• I Want to Live (hotline)
• Never Ever Can We Be Brothers
• Ukrainian recognition of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

Geography

• Joint Forces Operation (Ukraine)

Geographic overview

• Geography of Ukraine
• Eastern Ukraine, Western Ukraine, Southern Ukraine, Central Ukraine
• Crimea, Snake Island (Ukraine), Black Sea, Kerch Peninsula, Sea of Azov, Kerch Strait
• Administrative divisions of Ukraine
• Historical regions in present-day Ukraine

Oblasts

An oblast (/ˈɒblæst/; also UK: /ˈɒblɑːst/; Cyrillic (most commonly): область, Bulgarian: област) is a type of administrative division within the Russian empire and Soviet Union that continues to be used in Russia and some post-Imperial/Soviet states.^[1][2]

Volyn   Rivne   Zhytomyr   Kyiv   Khmeln- ytsky   Lviv   Ternopil   Ivano- Frankivsk   Zakarpattia   Chernivtsi   Vinnytsia   Cherkasy   Kirovohrad   Mykolaiv   Poltava   Chernihiv   Sumy   Kharkiv   Dnipropetrovsk   Odesa   Kherson   Zaporizhzhia   Donetsk   Crimea   Luhansk Kyiv Sevastopol • •

Urban centers

• Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Mariupol, Amvrosiivka, Luhansk, Kerch, Bucha, Bakhmut, Kherson
• Azovstal Iron and Steel Works, Crimean Bridge
• Hero City of Ukraine

Territorial changes

An alphabetical outline of territorial changes during the war.

Areas under Russian occupation

Events

A chronological outline of events. Articles related to particular events are listed alphabetically under the main article for the event they are related to.

• 2014 Crimean status referendum (16 March 2014)
• 2014 Ukrainian presidential election (25 May 2014)
• 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election (26 October 2014)
• 2019 Ukrainian presidential election (31 March 2019)

Protests and unrest

• 2014 anti-war protests in Russia
• 2022 protests in Russian-occupied Ukraine
• Protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Anti-war protests in Russia (2022–present)
• 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
• Historical background of the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
• 2022 Russian Far East protests
• 2022 open letter from Nobel laureates in support of Ukraine

Military operations and activities

A chronological outline of military operations. Articles related to particular battles are listed alphabetically under the main article for the operation they are related to.

Chronological

When a event or topic covers more than one year the article appears in the year the event started.

2014

Overviews

• 2014 Russian sabotage activities in Ukraine
• Russian occupation of Luhansk Oblast (April 2014)
• Russian occupation of Donetsk Oblast (April 2014)

Events

2015

2016

2017

2018

2021

2022

Overviews

• Order of battle for the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive (6 September – 2 October 2022)
• 2022 Kherson counteroffensive (29 August – 11 November 2022)
• Battle of Donbas (2022–present) (18 April 2022 – present)
• Eastern Ukraine campaign (24 February 2022 – present)
• Northern Ukraine campaign (24 February 2022 — 8 April 2022 )
• Southern Ukraine campaign (24 February 2022 – present)

Events

2023

• 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive (8 June 2023 – Present)
• Under construction

Event

• 2023 missile strike on the Sevastopol Naval Base (22 September 2023)

Geographic

Articles organized by geographic region

Eastern Ukraine

Overviews

• Eastern Ukraine campaign
• 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive
• Joint Forces Operation (Ukraine)
• Sloviansk offensive

Events

Western Ukraine

• Ivano-Frankivsk strikes (2022–present)
• Bombing of Lviv (2022–present)

Southern Ukraine

Overviews

• Southern Ukraine campaign
• 2022 Kherson counteroffensive
• Crimea attacks (2022–present)

Events

Northern Ukraine

Overviews

• Northern Ukraine campaign
• 2022 northeastern Ukraine–Russia border skirmishes

Events

Central Ukraine

Crimea and the Black Sea

• 2022 Snake Island campaign
• Sinking of the Moskva

Outside Ukraine

• 2022 missile explosion in Poland
• 2022–2023 western Russia attacks
• Shelling of Donetsk, Russia (13 July 2014)

Attacks on civilians

• Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Aerial warfare in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Cyberwarfare

Movement of the population

• 2022 evacuation of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic

Illegal annexations

• Annexation referendums
• Annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts

Diplomatic

• List of international presidential trips made by Volodymyr Zelenskyy
• 2022 visit by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the United States
• May 2023 visits by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Europe
• 2023 visit by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the United Kingdom

Individuals

An alphabetical list of individuals significantly related to the war. Individuals are listed under their nationality, not political alignment.

• Women in the war in Donbas
• Women in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• List of people and organizations sanctioned during the Russo-Ukrainian War

Russian figures

Political (pro-Russian)

Military (Russian aligned or controlled)

Other (pro-Russian)

Ukrainian figures

Political (pro-Ukrainian)

Military (Ukrainian aligned and controlled)

Journalists (pro-Ukrainian)

• Serhii Korovayny

Other (Ukrainian aligned and controlled)

Other individuals

Political (other)

Military (other)

Private (other)

Military units, equipment, and bases

An alphabetical list of military units involved in a significant way the war.

• Combatants of the war in Donbas
• Foreign fighters in the Russo-Ukrainian War
• List of Russo-Ukrainian War military equipment

Russian military units

• 2022 Russian mobilization
• Chechen involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Order of battle for the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Combatants of the war in Donbas

Command and organization

Units

This section contains articles about major formations or units with significance to the war. For a complete list see List of Russian units which invaded the territory of Ukraine

Ukrainian military units

Command and organization

Units

Military equipment

• List of aircraft losses during the Russo-Ukrainian War
• List of ship losses during the Russo-Ukrainian War

Russian equipment

• List of equipment used by Russian people's militias in Ukraine

Ukrainian equipment

• List of equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

NATO equipment

• Under construction

International equipment

• Under construction

Military bases and facilities

In Russia

• Engels-2 (air base)
• Millerovo (air base)

In Ukraine

• Sevastopol International Airport^[a]
• Sevastopol Naval Base^[b]
• Yavoriv military base

Military exercises

• Union Resolve 2022 (February 10–20, 2022)

Entities

Pro Russian organizations

Political (pro-Russian)

Military (Russian controlled and aligned)

Other (pro-Russian)

• Wagner Group
• Under construction

Pro Ukrainian organizations

Political (pro-Ukrainian)

Military (Ukrainian controlled and aligned)

• International Legion (Ukraine)
• Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief
• Freedom of Russia Legion
• Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment
• Berdiansk Partisan Army
• Popular Resistance of Ukraine
• Yellow Ribbon (movement)
• Separate Special Purpose Battalion (Chechen)

Other (Ukrainian controlled and aligned)

• IT Army of Ukraine
• 2022–2023 Belarusian and Russian partisan movement

Other organizations

Political (3rd parties)

Military (3rd parties)

Other (3rd parties)

International involvement

Overviews

• Russia–United States relations
• NATO–Russia relations
• Ukraine–United States relations
• Ukraine–European Union relations
• Ukraine–NATO relations

International events

• 2014 G20 Brisbane summit (15–16 November 2014)
• 2014 Wales summit (4–5 September 2014)
• 40th G7 summit (4–5 June 2014)
• Eleventh emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly (opened on 28 February 2022)
• 2021 Russia–United States summit (16 June 2021)
• 2022 NATO virtual summit (25 February 2022)
• 2022 Brussels summit (24 March 2022)
• 2022 Madrid summit (29–30 June 2022)

Reactions

• Corporate responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Government and intergovernmental reactions to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• International reactions to the war in Donbas
• Non-government reactions to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Reactions to the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis
• Reactions to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Unfriendly Countries List
• International recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic

Sanctions

• International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
• List of people and organizations sanctioned during the Russo-Ukrainian War
• Restrictions on transit to Kaliningrad Oblast

Investigations

• Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine
• OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine
• Task Force on Accountability for Crimes Committed in Ukraine
• United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine
• Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine
• International Criminal Court investigation in Ukraine

Other international involvement

• International recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic
• Legality of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Operation Atlantic Resolve, European Deterrence Initiative, NATO Enhanced Forward Presence
• 2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism
• Accession of Ukraine to the European Union
• Belarusian involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• Foreign fighters in the Russo-Ukrainian War
• Ukraine v. Russian Federation (2019)
• Ukraine v. Russian Federation (2022)
• Universal jurisdiction investigations of war crimes in Ukraine
• Proposed no-fly zone in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Military cooperation with the Russian Federation

• Zapad 2021
• Union Resolve 2022

Military cooperation with Ukraine

• European Union Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine
• People's Bayraktar
• 2022 Ramstein Air Base meeting

Resolutions and statements

Items are listed chronologically within individual sections.

International organizations

• United Nations Security Council Resolution 2166 (21 July 2014)
• United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/1 (March 2022)
• United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/2 (March 2022)
• United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/3 (April 2022)
• United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/4 (October 2022)
• United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/5 (November 2022)
• United Nations General Assembly Resolution ES-11/6 (February 2023)

Belarus

• Under construction

European Union

• Under construction

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Under construction

Russia

• On conducting a special military operation (24 February 2022)

Ukraine

• Ukrainian recognition of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (14 July 2022)

United States

• Support for the Sovereignty, Integrity, Democracy, and Economic Stability of Ukraine Act of 2014 (3 April 2014)
• Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 (9 May 2022)
• 2022 State of the Union Address(1 March 2022)

Other

• 2022 open letter from Nobel laureates in support of Ukraine(1 March 2022)

Books and publications

Books

• In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas by Stanislav Aseyev

Academic journals

• Under construction

Other

• Ami, it's time to go

Bibliographies

• Under construction

Lists

• List of Black Sea incidents involving Russia and Ukraine
• List of military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
• List of humanitarian aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
• List of damaged cultural sites during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
• List of Russo-Ukrainian War military equipment
• List of equipment used by Russian people's militias in Ukraine
• List of aircraft losses during the Russo-Ukrainian War
• List of ship losses during the Russo-Ukrainian War
• List of Russian units which invaded the territory of Ukraine
• List of people and organizations sanctioned during the Russo-Ukrainian War
• List of journalists killed during the Russo-Ukrainian War
• List of military engagements during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Other topics

Related outlines

• Outline of Russia
• Outline of Ukraine
• Outline of the Soviet Union
• Outline of World War II
• Outline of World War I