Since 24 February, Russian cross border strikes from its territory and via Belarus into Ukraine have been reported, with approximately 3,500 cruise and ballistic missiles as well as guided rocket artillery targeting main urban centres outside of Donetsk and Luhansk, including Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Lviv, Ivano Frankivsk, Lutsk, Odessa, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Mariupol. Airports, airbases and/or military installations with aviation infrastructure in many cities have been targeted.
On 29 March, Russia stated the primary aim of the “Special Military Operation” is to “liberate” the Donbass (Donetsk and Luhansk), and Russian forces withdrew from areas north of Kyiv. However, Mariupol was taken by Russian forces by late May. The vast majority of the fighting in the south spans from Mykolaiv near Crimea through to Sea of Azov areas and into the Donbass, though Russian military operations in the Kharkiv region are ongoing. Ukrainian military drone & ballistic missile strikes have targeted Russian military logistics bases in Kursk, Bryansk, Belgorod, Taganrog and Millerovo. Russian air defences have reportedly shot down a limited number of Ukrainian ballistic missiles & drones over Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Voronezh & Rostov oblasts.
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Map displaying an estimated overview of Russian & Ukrainian SAM system deployments
Previous Updates
To view the Situation Update from 2 June 2022, please click here
To view the Situation Update from 29 April 2022, please click here
To view the Situation Update from 14 April 2022, please click here
To view the Situation Update from 30 March 2022, please click here
To view the Situation Update from 11 March 2022, please click here
To view the Situation Update from 8 March 2022, please click here
To view the Situation Update from 4 March 2022, please click here
To view the Situation Update from 28 February 2022, please click here
To view the Situation Update Webinar series from February 2022, please click here
To view the Situation Update from 25 February 2022, please click here
To view the Situation Update from 18 February 2022, please click here
To view the Situation Update from 14 February 2022, click here
To view the Situation Update from 7 February 2022, please click here
To view the Situation Update from 10 January 2022, please click here
Additional Information
To read our December 2021 case study on the situation changes, please click here
To read our April 2021 case study assessing the situation, please click here