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

During heavy fighting in Irpin, Russian shelling has damaged one of the city's most beautiful educational institutions. The building has recently undergone major repairs.

On 8 April, Russian occupants launched a targeted rocket attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk. Sixty people were killed and more than 110 wounded.
 

Destroyed Borodyanka: voices from under the rubble, shootings and looting. What was happening in the town near Kiev during the occupation.

Crushed by armored vehicles of the Russian Federation, mangled, shelled and burned cars in the city of Bucha

During battles on 24-26 March 2022, Russian Nazis burnt down an old church of the Ascension in the village of Lukyanivka in the Kyiv region.

The Russian occupiers deliberately destroyed the Drama Theater, where hundreds of people were hiding

Russian fascists' rockets and shells have caused incredible destruction in Volnovakha. Infrastructure was destroyed, schools bombed and churches burned.

On 14 March 2022, a missile strike was launched from the Russian-controlled occupied territories of Ukraine against the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk. Twenty-one people were killed and more than 30 wounded.

Russian invaders in Chernihiv bombed a historic building that is more than 100 years old - the home of the Museum of Antiquities of Vasyl Tarnovsky. The house survived even during the German bombing of the Second World War.

Russian occupiers are at war with Ukraine's landmarks. The Gagarin Arena, where the local team used to play their home games, was destroyed during an overnight air raid by the Russian air force. 

Save the monument from bombing. 1200 sandbags were brought to Odesa and laid out around the monument to Duke de Richelieu.

The Russian occupation troops continue their barbaric bombing and artillery shelling of civil infrastructure, architectural monuments and churches. The Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs has released data on the targeted destruction of churches.

In the village of Vyazovka, Zhytomyr region, Nazis from the Russian Federation destroyed a 160-year-old church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

On Forgiveness Sunday, Russian troops attacked the town of Malin, Zhytomyr region, and the Church of the Intercession came under fire.

Russian planes dropped bombs on the evacuation bridge.

As a result of Russian air strikes on Chernihiv in March, most of the city was destroyed.

Among the cities hardest hit is the predominantly Russian-speaking and once rather pro-Russian Kharkiv.

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. On their way, Russian troops destroyed and burned all cultural treasures of Ukraine, one of which was the Maria Primachenko Museum in Ivankiv.

Transport jet aircraft of extra-large payload developed by OKB named after O. K. Antonov. It was the largest and most lifting aircraft in the history of world aviation.

On the night of February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a war against Ukraine, calling it a "special military operation" in the Donbass.