Southern front of the Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present) 2022
Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate.
Key facts
| Year | 2022 | Wikidata P585 (point in time) |
|---|---|---|
| Era | Post-1945 (1946 onwards) | derived from year |
| Location | Ukraine | Natural Earth (modern borders) |
| Continent | Europe | Natural Earth |
| War / conflict | southern front of the Russo-Ukrainian war | Wikidata P361 |
| Participants | Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russian Armed Forces | Wikidata P710 |
| Coordinates | 46.7567, 36.7886 | Wikidata P625 |
About the battle
On 24 February 2022, the Russian military invaded Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine from Russian-occupied Crimea, quickly entering Mykolaiv Oblast and Zaporizhzhia Oblast amid battles with the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Elements from the southern Russian offensive joined forces with elements advancing from the Donbas to jointly surround and bombard the city of Mariupol in Donetsk Oblast, which fell after months of siege.
Kherson was surrounded two days into the war, after which Russian forces advanced to the outskirts of Mykolaiv, which they failed to capture. The front then stabilised until a Ukrainian offensive in August. Ukrainian forces retook all of the territory west and north of the Dnieper river, and the front stabilised again just south of Kherson in November 2022. Kherson, the only oblast capital captured by Russia after its 2022 invasion, was liberated on 11 November.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Southern front of the Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present) (revision 1377512257), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; formatting and citations removed. No text added.
Nearby battles
- Battle of Mariupol (May–June 2014) 2014 · 69 km
- Battle for the Donbas (1919) · 69 km
- Siege of Mariupol 2022 · 71 km
- Siege of Mariupol 2022 · 73 km
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- Battle of Volnovakha 2022 · 108 km
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