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Russia launched its full-scale penetration of Ukraine connected February 24, 2022, unleashing the deadliest warfare successful Europe since World War II. Tens of thousands of civilians and hundreds of thousands of soldiers person been killed successful the warfare arsenic it completes four years of invasion.
In Ukraine, millions much person had to fly their homes to flight the warring arsenic Russia’s troops advanced. Entire cities successful Ukraine’s eastbound and south, among them Bakhmut, Toretsk and Vovchansk, person been reduced to rubble by fighting.
Around a 5th of Ukraine is contaminated by mines oregon unexploded ordnance, according to the U.N.’s Mine Action Service.
The full outgo of reconstruction successful Ukraine is estimated astatine astir $588 cardinal implicit the adjacent decade, the World Bank reported connected Monday (February 23, 2026).
Key events from 2022 to 2026
As the Russia-Ukraine warfare completes 4 years, The Hindu looks astatine the series of events that person unfolded during the war.
Deaths successful Russia-Ukraine war
The United Nations has verified implicit 15,000 civilian deaths successful Ukraine since 2022, though it says the existent fig is apt considerably higher arsenic it has nary entree to areas nether Russian occupation, similar the larboard metropolis of Mariupol wherever thousands are reported to person died successful a Russian siege. Neither broadside releases reliable information connected subject casualties.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said earlier this period 55,000 of his soldiers had been killed - a toll wide believed to beryllium an underestimate.
Russia has not fixed an authoritative update connected losses since September 2022.
Where the warfare stands now
The Kremlin is pushing for afloat power of Ukraine’s eastbound Donetsk portion and a prohibition connected Western subject enactment for Kyiv.
Ukraine says giving successful would permission it susceptible to aboriginal attack, is constitutionally impossible, and unacceptable to overmuch of Ukrainian society.
Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, respective rounds of talks - successful Istanbul, Abu Dhabi and Geneva - person failed to unafraid a deal.
(With inputs from AFP)
