The war in Ukraine deciphered in four infographics

• This Friday, Ukraine and Russia begin their 16th day of war.

  A conflict that has already killed hundreds of civilians, according to UN figures, and made more than 2.5 million Ukrainian refugees.

• On Thursday, the Russian army bombarded a maternity hospital in Mariupol.

  The attack caused a tidal wave of international condemnation.

  The EU called for a "thorough investigation" while Moscow claimed it was "staged".

• 20 Minutes invites

  you to come back in infographics on the evolution of the conflict.

On the sixteenth day of conflict, the armed standoff between Ukraine and Russia is not weakening.

After the attack on a maternity hospital in the besieged city of Mariupol, everything seems to show that Vladimir Putin has no limits to achieve his desire to besiege the country of Volodymyr Zelensky.

This Friday, the Kremlin also indicated that Syrian nationals could volunteer to go and fight the Ukrainian forces.

To better understand the strategy of the head of the Kremlin and the narrow room for maneuver of the Ukrainians,

offers you these four infographics.

The Advance of Vladimir Putin's Troops

On this map dating from March 11, we can see the advance of Russian soldiers in Ukraine on the sixteenth day of war.

Strategically, the fighting is mainly concentrated around the major cities of Kiev, the capital, and Kharkiv, the country's second strategic point.

However, clashes are also raging in Mariupol, the last Ukrainian bastion on the Sea of ​​Azov, besieged for a week.

Western Ukraine has so far been largely spared from the fighting.

Its largest city, Lviv, has become a hub for diplomatic missions, journalists and Ukrainians seeking safety or fleeing to a neighboring country.

However, the Russian army targeted two military airports there and struck, for the first time, the city of Dnipro, an industrial center located on the Dnieper, a river that marks the separation between the partly pro-Russian East and the rest of the country. .

In the Odessa region, residents are preparing to see Russian troops land on the beaches and say they are ready to take up arms.

With access to the Black Sea, Odessa is a strategic point in Ukraine.

The Bilogorodka Bridge, the last rampart

Bilogorodka is located 25 kilometers west of Kiev.

It is here that stands the last bridge that still separates the Russian forces and the Ukrainian capital.

Since Monday, the Ukrainian soldiers through the voice of a certain sergeant "Casper" claim to be ready to blow up the latter.

Fully mined, this last rampart that connects Kiev to its hinterland, as seen in the infographic above, could slow the advance of Russian forces.

Troops which are, according to the Pentagon, now more than 15 km from Kiev.

Humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians

Russia said on Thursday that it would open humanitarian corridors every day to allow Ukrainians fleeing the fighting to reach its territory.

“We officially announce that for the Russian Federation will now be opened unilaterally, without coordination, every day from 10 a.m.,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Volodymyr Zelensky, however, accused the Russian army on Friday of preventing the evacuation of civilians from the encircled towns of Mariupol and Volnovakha (southeast) and of having carried out an attack on the planned route of a humanitarian corridor.

More than 80,000 people have been evacuated in the past two days from Sumy, a city in northeastern Ukraine, and around Kiev, the Ukrainian government announced on Thursday.

Earlier in the day, the Ukrainian president had mentioned 60,000 Ukrainians evacuated the day before from the besieged cities, in a video on his Telegram channel.

Still more Ukrainian refugees

These images have been going around the world for a few days.

Women, children, old people dragging suitcases and what little they were able to keep of their personal belongings.

They are all fleeing towards the Polish, Moldavian or even Slovak borders as this map shows.

Some of them are even on their way to Russia.

In total, more than 2.5 million people have fled Ukraine, 116,000 of whom are third-country nationals, since the launch of the Russian invasion on February 24, according to the United Nations.

According to the UN, this figure could be increased to four million, if the conflict continues, out of a population of more than 37 million people in the territories controlled by Kiev (the latter do not include Crimea, nor the areas under control of pro-Russian separatists).

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