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

Nazariy, together with his comrades, held the defence at Azovstal for three months, was taken prisoner by Russia and returned to the army after his release. He was killed in action.
 

Oleksandr Mashlai, a soldier and former editor-in-chief of the Pravyi Poshtup media outlet, was killed on 7 May in the Avdiivka sector while performing a combat mission.

Serhiy Kaznadiy "Hera", a volunteer with the Hospitallers medical evacuation battalion of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, died in Donetsk Oblast.

Russian occupiers continue to destroy everything that resembles Ukraine. A monument dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the Ukrainian Cossacks was destroyed in Mariupol.
 

Ukrainian soldier, sapper Vladyslav Yeshchenko lost his eyes after an anti-personnel mine explosion, but miraculously survived.

Russia fired ballistic missiles at Odesa. A sorting depot and a Nova Poshta office were hit.

On the evening of 29 April, Russians attacked Odesa, setting fire to the palace of students of the Odesa Law Academy. It was popularly nicknamed "Harry Potter's Castle" and also "Kivalov's Castle".

The 2 May 2014 Odesa confrontations were massive riots that took place in the city of Odesa on 2 May 2014. About two thousand people who had gathered to participate in a peaceful march along the main street "For the Unity of Ukraine", where they…

A theatre and film actor and soldier, Yevhen Shumilov, died at the front. He was defending his wounded comrade-in-arms.

A photo selection of famous Ukrainians whose faces and bodies were maimed by Russia

A photo selection of TV towers destroyed by Russia in Ukraine. The occupiers believe that in this way they will be able to promote their propaganda and deprive Ukrainians of state sources of information. 

Journalist, editor, theatre critic Alla Pushkarchuk (‘Ruta’) died in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Russian troops launched a massive missile attack on the city of Dnipro. Russian terrorists targeted civilians in the city.

The Russians used Iskander ballistic missiles in an attack on Dnipro bus station.

The Russian strike completely destroyed the Tripolskaya TPP, the most powerful power plant in the Kyiv region.

Pavlo Petrychenko was a Ukrainian civil activist, a serviceman of the 59th separate motorised infantry brigade, an aerial reconnaissance man. 

Andrii Domanskyi was an actor of the Zhytomyr Academic Music and Drama Theatre, a volunteer, a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who died at the front. 
 

The occupants showed photos of the city they destroyed. This is what liberation looks like in Russian.