Maps: Putin's invasion of Ukraine, explained day by day

• E. AMADE, J. AGUIRRE, A. HERNÁNDEZ, E. MARTÍN, Á.

  MATILLA, M. VAQUERO

  @elmundograficos

  Madrid

Updated Monday, March 7, 2022-13:02

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Thursday

will go down in the history books as the day peace in

was definitively broken .

After weeks on the edge of a knife, on the 24th the capital of Ukraine woke up between the bombings ordered by Vladimir Putin, determined to invade the neighboring country from Russia and from his satellite, Belarus.

The entry of Russian troops was also carried out from the east, especially through the separatist regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, recognized three days earlier as independent republics by the Kremlin;

and from

, to the south, the peninsula that the Russian president already annexed in 2014.

7/03 |

CIVILIAN DEATHS IN FAILED EVACUATIONS

After the frustrated

of the previous days, Russia announces that it will open new exit routes for civilians starting at 07:00 GMT in the Ukrainian cities of

, as reported by the Russian armed forces themselves to the Cross Red, the OSCE and the UN, Russian agencies report.

Ukraine, for its part, has rejected the humanitarian corridors to Belarus and Russia, proposed by Moscow, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereschuk announced.

"It's not an acceptable option."

These are the humanitarian corridors proposed by Russia:

The ceasefire that was planned this Sunday in the

to establish a humanitarian corridor failed.

Yesterday, a team of journalists from 'The New York Times' witnessed how a Russian bombardment hit members of a family trying to leave the city of

6/03 |

SECOND CEASE-FIRE FAILURE IN MARIUPOL

Russia and Ukraine

accuse each other of

and therefore making it impossible to

in the city of

According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Ukrainian authorities

In the northeast of the country, Russian troops continue to focus on attacking

with aerial fire.

On the Kiev front, progress has not been very significant.

Russian forces remain deployed in positions to the north and west of the capital, which they have occupied for several days but have not launched any major combat operations.

However, this Sunday they did attack

according to the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine.

5/03 |

FRUSTRATED THE POSSIBILITY OF EVACUATION OF THE CIVILIAN POPULATION IN MARIUPOL

The

during the six hours agreed to open two humanitarian corridors in the cities of

where the Russian army has blocked the port, and Volnovaja.

The evacuation of the civilian population was planned from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Spanish peninsular time.

For its part

On the

the Russian offensive continues in the main cities of the country such as

In

a city on the northern outskirts of the capital, there have been heavy clashes.

03/04 |

RUSSIA BOMBS THE ZAPORIJIA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

A Russian bombardment hit the Zaporizhia

the largest in Europe, early this Friday.

Rafael Mariano Grossi, director of

The target of the bombing was a building located at the entrance to the compound and that housed a training center and laboratories.

The

, located a few hundred meters away, would be intact.

In any case, almost all of them are standing still cooling down, so the risk in the event of an attack would be "much lower", according to Germán Orizaola, a researcher at the University of Oviedo.

Built in 1985 under the umbrella of the

, the Zaporizhia plant supplies much of the country's power.

Aside from Chernobyl, which is inactive, Ukraine has a total of

.

Of these,

is the one with the largest number of nuclear reactors (six), followed by

with four,

with three and

with two reactors.

After the capture of Kherson, Russia continues to advance in the south and is already about 25 kilometers from the

.

A little more than 300 kilometers from the

power plant , the military chiefs confirmed that the Russian

fleet has set sail from Crimea and is already in the vicinity of

the main Ukrainian coastal city, which is emerging as the next big target of the invasion of Moscow.

03/03 |

FIRST SHIPMENT OF SPANISH ARMS TO UKRAINE

The Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, announced that tomorrow

The Air Force planes will leave from the Los Llanos base in Albacete and will transport 1,370 anti-tank grenade launchers, 700,000 rifle cartridges and light machine guns.

Robles points out that this weaponry will allow it to be used by

The bombing continues to destroy Kharkov.

The Russian army is also attacking critical infrastructure in

with the intention of surrendering the city without having to enter it.

After taking Jersón yesterday, the invader tries to neutralize the pockets of resistance.

The convoy headed for Kiev, meanwhile, makes little headway.

On the eighth day of fighting,

, said the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi.

The vast majority have left for the west, especially to

, which is home to more than half.

2/03 |

RUSSIA MAKES ADVANCES IN THE SOUTH

On the seventh day of

the Russian army claims that it has taken the city of

"Russian divisions of the armed forces have taken full control of the

regional center, " Defense Ministry spokesman

in statements broadcast on television and collected by AFP.

Meanwhile, the port city of

is surrounded and without electricity after the Russian bombardment.

since the beginning of hostilities.

Although an undetermined number of warships are

through the Bosphorus Strait, the Russian army has had enough naval means in the first days of the war to bombard with missiles, from the Black Sea, positions such as the

In addition to having an offensive attitude, they are blocking and controlling the maritime traffic of supplies and war material that could reach the Ukrainian coast.

1/03 |

A HUGE CONVOY TO KIEV

Satellite images from the US company Maxar captured a column of more than 64 kilometers of vehicles and artillery about 30 kilometers northwest of the capital, the main objective of this offensive.

During the preceding days

near Ivankiv, Irpin or Stoyanka to hinder the advance of the enemy.

However, the US considers that

, due to fuel and food shortages.

According to the US government, Putin would still intend to surround Kiev, but Russian forces could be rethinking the strategy in the face of greater resistance than expected.

On the other hand, the center of

, the second largest city in Ukraine, has been shelled by the Russian army, regional governor Oleg Sinegoubov announced on Telegram.

Russia's assault on the city of

in southern

began last night, the State Service for Communications and Information Protection reported on its official Telegram account.

army

is setting up checkpoints at the entrances to

. It is difficult to say how the situation will develop," the mayor said on his Facebook page.

02/28 |

NEGOTIATIONS AT THE BORDER

The week begins with negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in the Belarusian city of Gomel.

Meanwhile, activity on the front continues with fighting in the cities of Chernigov and Kharkov, which remain under Ukrainian control.

26-27/02 |

Small advances towards the capital

In Kiev the bombings and fighting have continued, some of the clashes just nine kilometers from the well-known

square .

Russian troops continue to advance towards the capital but have so far failed to penetrate it.

02/25 |

The first days of the invasion

Putin is invading Ukraine from the south, the east and, via

, also from the north.

This is the front that worries him the most, since

and his government are less than 100 kilometers from the border.

Although there is already a Russian presence in the capital, the bulk of Moscow's army threatens at close range.

02/24/2022 |

imbalance of forces

The Russian attack on Ukraine begins, a pulse that Kiev tries to endure despite the devastating inferiority of its armed forces.

Russian strategists have planned a series of

such as weapons depots, runways, barracks, radars and bridges.

Then he has hit the Ukrainian rear columns.

Only the entrance of the armored columns remained, which have penetrated into enemy territory from many points after an artillery preparation.

2021 |

Putin's mistrust of NATO

The red lines drawn by Russia have to do with the old Cold War treaties on nuclear weapons.

Moscow, basing itself on a supposed commitment between Gorbachev and Reagan in 1987, alleges that

, precisely to give it time to react in the event of an atomic attack, and that fear of such action-reaction (which would mean the destruction of both contenders) ruled out any such attack.

2010 |

the first symptom

The results of the 2010 elections gave

in which, four years later, Ukraine would plunge and which has escalated to the current situation.

The pro-Russian candidate,

Vladimir Putin, nostalgic for the Soviet empire, does not want to give up any more ground and defends an ally like Lukashenko or threatens Ukrainian sovereignty so as not to lose influence in more border territories.

Despite the

, it has not been possible to end the fighting due to non-compliance by both parties.

now killing people daily

and has destroyed infrastructure across the region.

SOURCES

Satellite images:

Maxar Technologies, Google.

: The New York Times

Rochan Consulting, Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Militaryland, Black Sea News, Covert Shores, BBC, agencies and own calculations.

Electoral Geography.

EFE, AFP and own elaboration.

AFP and UNHCR.

Instalaza and Spanish Armada.

Bing Maps (image), @RALee85 , @BeMilInterests, IAEA .

INFOGRAPHIC:

Javier Aguirre, Emilio Amade, Alberto Hernández, Elsa Martín, Álvaro Matilla and Maite Vaquero.

ART DIRECTION:

María González Manteca and Josetxu Piñeiro.

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