Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in maps — latest updates

What we all know — day 14: wednesday March 9

Russia battered Ukrainian cities on Wednesday and pushed in the direction of the capital Kyiv. Western officers mentioned Russia was regrouping round Kyiv, doubtlessly in preparation for a renewed offensive on the capital within the coming days. Ukraine’s armed forces reported heavy combating across the metropolis up to now few hours.

The variety of Ukrainians fleeing the combating reached 2mn by March 8, the UN’s refugee company reported, amid issues over the rising refugee disaster.

The nation taking the best variety of refugees is Poland, with greater than 1.2mn alone.

Key maps from the battle

This animation gives a day-by-day view of Russian navy exercise for the reason that invasion started on February 24.

The Russian aviation business is going through a disaster, with its carriers banned from swaths of the world’s skies.

Within the UK, the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics has launched preliminary knowledge from the 2021 census that present the distribution of Ukrainian and Russian diasporas in England and Wales.

Ukrainians fleeing their homeland might be housed within the lavish UK residences of oligarchs hit with sanctions below proposals mentioned by the British authorities. The ONS knowledge present distinct patterns of Ukrainian and Russian residents in London.

The battle in Ukraine has led to a discount within the variety of worldwide industrial flights going into Russia, in keeping with knowledge from marketing consultant VesselsValue.

On February 28, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan indicated that he would invoke a clause within the 1936 Montreux Conference that enables Ankara to curb the passage of naval vessels belonging to fighters by way of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits. “Now we have the authority and we now have determined to make use of it in a manner that can stop the disaster from escalating,” he mentioned.

Russia’s multipronged invasion means that the plan is to advance south in the direction of Kyiv from Belarus, encircle Ukraine’s forces within the east and cleave the nation from the Russian border to the Black Sea.

On February 22, Putin recognised the separatist governments in Luhansk and Donetsk, two provinces within the jap Donbas area of Ukraine, and ordered Russian troops to enter them. On February 24, Moscow started a full-scale invasion of the nation.

Sources: Institute for the Research of Conflict, Rochan Consulting, FT analysis

Cartography and growth by Steve Bernard, Chris Campbell, Emma Lewis, Joanna S. Kao, Sam Learner, Ændra Rininsland, Niko Kommenda, Alan Smith and Martin Stabe. Primarily based on reporting by Roman Olearchyk and John Reed in Kyiv, Man Chazan in Lviv, Henry Foy in Brussels