Russo-Ukrainian War

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Russo-Ukrainian War
Clockwise from top left: Ukrainian troops during the war in Donbas, 2014 Russian T-64 tank with Z markings, 2022 Russian-backed Donetsk People's Republic forces, 2015 Residential building damaged by a Russian missile in Avdiivka, 2023 Destroyed vehicles after the battle of Bucha, 2022 Civilian killed after Russian missile strikes on Kyiv, 2022
Date Late February 2014[b] – present (11 years, 1 month and 3 days) Location Ukraine, Russia, and Black Sea (spillover into Romania,[1] Poland, Moldova, and Belarus) Status Ongoing Territorial changes Russian annexation of Crimea and parts of four southeast Ukrainian oblasts in 2014 and 2022, respectively Russian occupation of more than 18% of Ukrainian territory as of March 2024[2] Ukrainian occupation of parts of Russia's Kursk Oblast since 2024
Belligerents
Russia Donetsk PR[a] Luhansk PR[a]	Ukraine
Commanders and leaders
Russia Vladimir Putin Sergei Shoigu Valery Gerasimov Yevgeny Prigozhin (2014–2023) Alexander Zakharchenko (2014–2018) Denis Pushilin (2018–present) Pavel Gubarev (2014) Igor Girkin (2014) Leonid Pasechnik (2017–present) Igor Plotnitsky (2014–2017) Valery Bolotov (2014)	Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy (2019–present) Petro Poroshenko (2014–2019) Oleksandr Turchynov (acting; 2014) Andrii Zahorodniuk (2019–2020) Stepan Poltorak (2014–2019) Valeriy Heletey (2014) Ihor Tenyukh (2014) Oleksandr Syrskyi (2024–present) Valerii Zaluzhnyi (2021–2024) Ruslan Khomchak (2019–2021)
Casualties and losses
From hundreds of thousands to more than two millions, reports vary widely.

The Russo–Ukrainian War^[3] is an ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine that began in February 2014. It started when Russia took over Crimea and funded anti-government rebels in the Donbas region. It escalated in February 2022 when Russia invaded the whole of Ukraine.

The number of soldiers that have been wounded or killed is a half million (as of 2023), according to U.S. authorities.^[4]
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1. ↑ Rainsford, Sarah (6 September 2023). "Ukraine war: Romania reveals Russian drone parts hit its territory". Archived from the original on 23 February 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
2. ↑ MacFarquhar, Neil (17 March 2024). "Five Takeaways From Putin's Orchestrated Win in Russia". The New York Times.
3. ↑ Snyder, Timothy (2018). The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America. New York: Tim Duggan Books. p. 197. ISBN 9780525574477. Almost everyone lost the Russo-Ukrainian war: Russia, Ukraine, the EU, the United States. The only winner was China.; Mulford, Joshua P. (2016). "Non-State Actors in the Russo-Ukrainian War". Connections. 15 (2): 89–107. doi:10.11610/Connections.15.2.07. ISSN 1812-1098. JSTOR 26326442.; Shevko, Demian; Khrul, Kristina (2017). "Why the Conflict Between Russia and Ukraine Is a Hybrid Aggression Against the West and Nothing Else". In Gutsul, Nazarii; Khrul, Kristina (eds.). Multicultural Societies and their Threats: Real, Hybrid and Media Wars in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Zürich: LIT Verlag Münster. p. 100. ISBN 9783643908254.
4. ↑ https://www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/i-atte-ar-kjempet-roman-43-mot-russerne-sa-gikk-det-nesten-forferdelig-galt/f/5-95-1294219. Nettavisen.no. Retrieved 2023-09-01