Europe & Central Asia
Ukraine Crisis: 23 April-6 May 2022
12 May 2022
Heavy fighting continued in eastern and southern Ukraine over the past two weeks, with violence concentrated in the eastern regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv. The city of Mariupol in the Donetsk region remains under siege, with Ukrainian soldiers and civilians trapped in the Azovstal plant. Russian troops continued their daily bombardment of the plant…
Read MoreUkraine Crisis: 16-22 April 2022
28 April 2022
Russian forces focused operations on the Donbas region last week, where Russia has been supporting separatist armed formations since 2014 (Hromadske 18 April 2022). More than half of all political violence events in Ukraine last week were recorded in Donbas, where the city of Mariupol remains under siege. In Mariupol, Ukrainian forces continued to fight…
Read MoreUkraine Crisis: 9-15 April 2022
21 April 2022
Heavy fighting continued in the eastern and southern parts of the country last week, though Russian forces made no major territorial gains. The besieged city of Mariupol continues to see intense fighting around the last pockets of Ukrainian forces. Russian forces escalated missile attacks across Ukraine, targeting railways, airports, and civilian buildings. In the Black…
Read MoreUkraine Crisis: 2-8 April 2022
14 April 2022
Ukrainian forces continued operations in the north of the country last week amid the withdrawal of Russian forces. By 8 April, Russian troops had fully pulled out of the Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Sumy regions (Kyiv Independent, 6 April 2022; Ukrinform, 9 April 2022). Heavy fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces continued in eastern and southern…
Read MoreUkraine Crisis: 19-25 March 2022
1 April 2022
Last week marked one month since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with fighting reported in the country’s northern, eastern, and southern regions. Russian forces continued to shell civilian infrastructure across the country. Civilians bore the burden of the ongoing siege of Mariupol in the Donetsk region, with cuts to electricity, heating, phone…
Read MoreUkraine Crisis: 12-18 March 2022
24 March 2022
Last week, the Russian invasion of Ukraine entered its fourth week. Fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces continued in the northern, eastern, and southern regions of Ukraine. Since the start of the invasion, Russian forces have failed to capture any regional centers other than Kherson, but have continued advances against Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, and…
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