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Bookstores across Moscow have begun selling maps that show four partially occupied southeast Ukrainian regions as Russian territory, media reported Wednesday, as lawmakers move to outlaw displaying the regions as part of Ukraine. Major chains have this week started accepting maps with the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of eastern and southern Ukraine in the same color pattern as Russia, according to the RBC news website. Though the four Ukrainian regions are only partly occupied by Russian forces, President Vladimir Putin claimed to have Russian forces were estimated to have held 16.55% of Ukrainian territory as of the end of 2022 following months of battlefield setbacks and a sweeping counteroffensive by Kyiv. Russia’s lower house of parliament is moving to impose up to 15 days of jail or fines of up to 1 million rubles ($14,000) for “extremist” maps that “dispute Russia’s territorial integrity.” The bill is expected to become law once it advances through both chambers of the Russian parliament and receives Putin’s signature. Some Moscow bookstores interviewed by RBC said they have printed a limited run of the new maps — which include wall maps of Russia, Eurasia and the world, as well as world atlases — as they await the new law to take effect.

What we are showing on our Ukraine map and why it looks different from other media outlets’ projects This war is different. Although men and machines are also clashing in this one, the global public can this time follow the developments in nearly real time, unlike in past conflicts. At the NZZ, too, we are using the flood of information reaching us from Ukraine to give you the most up-to-date picture of the situation possible. Our interactive map above depicts recent events, territorial gains and losses, satellite imagery, and the position of Russian troops. It is an attempt to map the reality of war. However, reality is always more complex than what can be represented on a map. Maps always show only a certain point of view, and can only approximate reality. Therefore, we want to be clear here about how our map has been created, so readers can understand what it says and what it does not. Table of contents • What events do we show on the map? • Which events do we deliberately not show? • How do we make sure that the events are as described? • How up-to-date is the map? • How do we show which areas are under whose control? • Our map depicts Russian troop movements. How do we know where which unit is located? • We show Russian troops in BTG units. What does that mean? • Are we developing the map further? What events do we show on the map? The short answer: anything relevant to understanding the war that we have been able to verify. The detailed answer, on the other hand, is ...

• In Moldova: • In Georgia: • In Ukraine: Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine are areas of Тимчасово окупована територія України, Tymchasovo okupovana terytoriia Ukrainy). The occupation started in 2014 following e.g. the stalled In early September 2022, Ukrainian forces ended the months-long stalemate on the front lines with On 30 September 2022, Russia announced Before 2022, Russia occupied 42,000km 2 (16,000sqmi) of Ukrainian territory (Crimea, and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk), and occupied an additional 119,000km 2 (46,000sqmi) after its full-scale invasion by March 2022, a total of 161,000km 2 (62,000sqmi) or almost 27% of Ukraine's territory. 2 (28,743sqmi) from Russian occupation, Background With the In response to • • Law of Ukraine No. 1207-VII (15 April 2014) "Assurance of Citizens' Rights and Freedom, and Legal Regulations on Temporarily Occupied Territory of Ukraine". • Separate • Order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 1085-р (7 November 2014) "A List of Settlements on Territory Temporarily Uncontrolled by Government Authorities, and a List of Landmarks Located at the Contact Line". • Law of Ukraine No. 254-19-VIII (17 March 2015) "On Recognition of Separate Raions, Cities, Towns and Villages in Donetsk and Luhansk Regions as Temporarily Occupied Territories". Before February 2022 Since the start of the • Addendum No. 128-р as of 18 February 2015 • Addendum No. 428-р as of 5 May 2015 • Addendum No. 1276-р as of 2 December 2015 • Addendum No. 79-р...

More than 260 fighters left the Azovstal plant — their last redoubt in the southern port city — on Monday and were transported to two towns controlled by Moscow-backed separatists, officials on both sides said. Other fighters — their precise numbers unknown — remain inside the ruins of the fortified mill that sprawls over 4 square mile in the otherwise now Russian-held city. A screengrab taken from a video released by the Russian defence ministry shows Ukrainian soldiers leaving the Azovstal steel plant on Tuesday. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Azovstal’s fall marks the complete capture of Mariupol, a significant milestone in one of the bloodiest battles of the war. Wrapping up Mariupol’s capture would give Russia an unbroken land bridge to the Crimean Peninsula, which it annexed from Severodonetsk Fighting is increasingly focusing on the Severodonetsk, the easternmost city still held by Ukrainian forces after more than 11 weeks of war, and an a effort to complete a wider encirclement of Ukraine’s defending forces in the Donbas appears to have failed. A smaller-scale encirclement of Severodonetsk also failed last week after Russian forces were defeated with heavy losses in What do we know about Russia’s deployments? Scores of battalion tactical groups – the smallest operational unit in Russia’s army, consisting of about 800-1,000 troops – were put in place near the borders of Ukraine in Russia and Belarus before the invasion. As of 18 February, the US estimated t...

• • Nine months of war in Ukraine in one map: How much territory did Russia invade and then cede? By Published on November 25, 2022, at 7:00 pm (Paris), updated on November 28, 2022, at 9:34 am Lire en français • Share Share • Share on Twitter • Share on Messenger • Share on Facebook • Share by email • Share on Whatsapp • Share on Linkedin • Copy link NewsAccording to estimates, Moscow controlled 25% of Ukrainian territory in March, compared to about 15% currently. On February 24, 2022, after months of tension between Moscow and Kyiv, the Russian army crossed the border of its Ukrainian neighbor to the south, east and north. After a failed offensive on the capital, Russian troops withdrew from the north of the country in early April to focus on its offensive in southern and eastern Ukraine. Meanwhile, Moscow shifted its war aims from talking about "regime change in Kyiv" to "liberation" of the entire Donbas – home to two self-proclaimed pro-Russian republics.

Note: The Crimean peninsula was annexed by Russia in 2014, but the region is not internationally recognised as part of Russia. Source: Natural Earth; United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA); Worldpop.org; Ukrainian officials; Janes; Institute for the Study of War with AEI’s Critical Threats Project (Russian-occupied territory data as of 3 p.m. EST, May 30); UK Ministry of Defence; Reuters Supporting effort southern axis — Russian objective to defend Kherson and Zaporizhzhia against Ukrainian counterattacks. Note: The Crimean peninsula was annexed by Russia in 2014, but the region is not internationally recognised as part of Russia. Source: Natural Earth; United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA); Worldpop.org; Ukrainian officials; Janes; Institute for the Study of War with AEI’s Critical Threats Project (Russian-occupied territory data as of 3 p.m. EST, May 30); UK Ministry of Defence; Reuters Russian forces seize nuclear plant Updated March 4, 2022, 3:45 p.m. CUT Russian forces seized the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in eastern Ukraine, the largest nuclear plant in Europe, after a building at the complex was set ablaze during intense fighting with Ukrainian defenders. Fears of a potential nuclear disaster at the plant had spread alarm across world capitals before authorities said the fire in a building identified as a training centre had been extinguished. The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine called the Russian ...

September has seen dramatic reversals for In the north, Russian troops have been forced into headlong retreat, in some cases An interactive map produced by Newsweek, based on data from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), shows just how dramatically fortunes have changed since Russia launched its invasion on February 24. The initial Russian offensive took place on three main axes. In the north, troops moved down from Russia's ally Belarus in a bid to capture Kyiv and decapitate Ukraine's leadership. In the north-east they made a bid to seize Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city. In this combination image, a timelapse map video shows how much Russians have retreated in Ukraine and Timelapse Map Video Shows How Much Russians Have Retreated Ukrainian soldiers (Main image) sit atop a tank in Izium in eastern Ukraine on September 14, 2022, following a successful counter-offensive. Getty/Newsweek To the south, Russian troops exploded out of Crimea—which Putin annexed in 2014—into southern Ukraine, initially making big gains. Further east, Russian forces attacked in the Donbas region, partly controlled by allied proxy states since 2014, but made slow progress in the teeth of entrenched Ukrainian positions. According to the Washington D.C. based ISW, the initial Russian attack was relatively successful, approaching Kyiv from both the north-east and north-west and seizing a good chunk of Ukraine opposite Crimea, including the cities of Kherson and Melitopol. Mariupol, a key ...

As Russia advances and falters in Ukraine, Yet maps have always been projections of power. When looking at maps, we should focus more on seeing them as narratives, particular versions of a story reflecting a specific interpretation and angle. Maps are more novels than photos and need to be read carefully. In a war like Ukraine, closely tied to misrepresentations of history, in which Russia sends a nationalist Numerous news outlets and analysts produce maps of the war in Ukraine. These maps tend to follow a similar pattern. Areas of Russian advances get colored in red, sometimes augmented with arrows signifying the direction of Russian movements. Those areas are variously described as “ We know that Russians do not control (in a sense of at least trying to establish their own military occupation) most of these areas. While they have made some attempts in This is all rather confusing when it comes to maps. We are used to clear lines in the sand, borders, and blotches of colors. Fronts are supposed to be lines, states are meant to control all their territory—at worst, with some contested areas checkered or painted in a less intensive color. We project this into the past, showing neat borders of medieval or ancient states in epochs when such concepts had little traction. Borders, historically, were permeable and flexible, not lines but zones. Their depiction as lines is little more than a convention and frankly reinforces a misleading picture of how those states administered t...