Countries and their cities before and after the start of the war

At the beginning of the open invasion, the Korolenko Central City Library in Mariupol became a refuge for the townspeople from Russian attacks. But the building itself did not withstand the massive shelling.

Petro Mostavchuk, also known as MS Petya, is a young man from the village of Khlevyshche (Chernivtsi region, Kitsman district) who became popular due to his eccentric antics and special syntax.
 

Russian troops have launched a precision missile strike in Kramatorsk. An Iskander missile hit a restaurant: 11 people were killed, including three children, and 61 people were injured. 

Valerii Chybineiev was a Ukrainian serviceman, Captain of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, commander of the sniper company of the 79th separate airborne assault brigade. Hero of Ukraine (2016).

Andriy Khlyvnyuk is a Ukrainian musician, vocalist and lyricist for the band Boombox. In 2022, after the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he joined the ranks of the Territorial Defence Battalion of Ukraine.

Kolya Serga is a Ukrainian musician, TV presenter, actor and singer. He became known as one of the hosts of the programme Heads and Tails.

Oleg Sentsov is a Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and writer, and social activist. He was detained in 2014 by Russian law enforcement agencies in occupied Crimea on suspicion of terrorism.

More than 20 structures were damaged in an overnight rocket attack on Odessa that killed three people. The Russians struck a residential building.

Due to the undermining of the Kakhovka hydropower plant by Russian troops, the reservoir has begun to shallow. The mass fish kill has unpredictable consequences.

More than 80 settlements have gone under water because of the bombing of the Kakhovska hydroelectric power plant dam by the Russians. Volunteers and rescuers are actively working everywhere.

Because of the explosion of the dam of Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station by Russians, the city of Kherson started to be flooded. All rescue services are working, and the consequences of the catastrophe are unimaginable. 

The Kakhovka hydroelectric plant was blown up by Russian troops. Towns and villages along the Dniro River are going under water.

Russian occupation troops have committed another act of terror and ecocide on Ukrainian territory. The Kakhovka hydropower plant was previously mined and then blown up by Russian terrorists. 

Volodymyr Rashchuk is a serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, commander of the 7th Company of the 3rd Battalion "Svoboda" as part of the Rapid Response Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine "Rubizh", Junior Lieutenant. Until 2022, he was a…

A military medic and volunteer, 29-year-old Yana "Yara" Rykhlitska from Vinnytsia was working at the frontline in Bakhmut, providing assistance to Ukrainian soldiers. On 3 March, she was killed by Russian shelling.

Ukrainian serviceman, colonel. Candidate of Law. Since the beginning of March 2022, he has been the commander of the 127th separate brigade of the territorial defence of Ukraine.

A Russian missile hit a polyclinic in Dnipro. Two people were killed and another 30, including two children, were injured. 

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The most outstanding person in Ukraine. A symbol of the strength and modernity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Ukrainian poet and prose writer Ihor Mysiak died in the war, defending Ukraine from Russian attackers. He was 29 years old.