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

The last female marine, Halyna Fedyshyn, from Ivano-Frankivsk region, has returned from Russian captivity.

Maksym Bordus, call sign Kinzhal, died during a combat mission near the village of Mala Tokmachka, Zaporizhzhia region. He was a Ukrainian kick-boxing champion.

Serebryansky is one of the objects of the nature reserve fund of the Luhansk region, a botanical reserve of local importance. It is being destroyed by Russian troops.

A place of remembrance for fallen Ukrainians in the centre of Kyiv. Here, each flag is left in memory of a fallen Ukrainian soldier. 

Stanislav Aseyev is a Ukrainian writer, journalist and human rights activist, member of PEN Ukraine, founder of the Justice Initiative Fund. He was kidnapped on 11 May 2017 and held by the pro-Russian terrorist organisation 'DPR' until 29 December…

Roman Balan is a Ukrainian public figure, volunteer, co-founder of the People's Home Front volunteer association, and chairman of the attestation commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in 2016. 

The fragments of a Russian missile hit the educational building of the Mykhailo Boychuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative and Applied Arts and Design.

On the morning of 21 March 2024, Russian terrorists attacked Kyiv with two ballistic missiles (Iskander-M or its North Korean analogue KN-23 and X-47M2 Dagger) and 29 X-101/X-555 cruise missiles. All missiles were shot down.

Russian aviation launched guided bombs at a house of culture in the town of Semenivka in Chernihiv region. The building was the National Museum of Taras Shevchenko and the city administration. 

The Dnipro HPP in Zaporizhzhia was attacked by Russian occupiers on the night of 22 March 2024. It is the largest hydroelectric power plant in Ukraine.

Hryhoriy Yanchenko is a 76-year-old Ukrainian military volunteer, an honorary citizen of Kherson. Knight of the Order "People's Hero of Ukraine".

Vasyl "Prozorov" Pereverziev is a Ukrainian rock musician, best known as the leader, vocalist and songwriter of the Kyiv-based alternative band TOL, who joined the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

He saved a wounded man and was killed by a sniper's bullet. Dmytro Sinchenko is a volunteer journalist from Kropyvnytskyi.

Russian terror continues every day. A missile attack was launched on a multi-storey residential building in Kryvyi Rih.

Serhii Skald, Hlib Babich, Oleh Bobalo, Anton Prasolenko, Andrii Maksymenko, Volodymyr Chornyi - Ukrainian artists who gave their lives in the fight against the Russian occupiers.

Serhiy Filimonov is a Ukrainian military and public figure, a lieutenant in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, commander of the Da Vinci Wolves battalion, and a participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war since 2014.

A Russian UAV hit a residential building in Odessa. The whole entrance hall collapsed. Twelve people died under the rubble, including five children.

The gymnasium survived the invasion of the German Nazis, but did not survive the Russian terrorists.

A well-known Zaporizhzhia historian and senior researcher at the Khortytsia National Reserve, Maksym Shtatskyi, died defending Ukraine. He was 35 years old.

A missile strike by the Russian army destroyed a 19th-century architectural monument in the city of Orikhiv, Zaporizhzhia region.