100 days of Russia’s Ukraine invasion: A recap

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Russia War Ukraine Live, Mariapol fell to Russia: a hundred days ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special operation for “Denazify” Ukraine. Since then, the war did not show signs of subside with Ukraine and Russian troops who claimed victory in various parts of the country.

While most of the Ukraine troops managed to protect the Kremlin army from the urban section of the country, several parts of the Ukraine rural area saw Russian troops occupying their homes and offices, often leaving mass graves with hundreds of bodies marked with torture.

Russian troops now control about 20% of Ukraine, Zelenskyy said Thursday. This includes 7% of Ukraine that already existed in the hands of Russia after the 2014 Crimea anexation. According to the AP estimate, this amounts to 58,000 additional square kilometers under Russian control, the total area is slightly greater than Croatia.

Since then, while Russian troops were mostly expelled from two major cities of Kyiv and Kharkiv, several other main areas – including Marieupol and Kherson, among others – had fallen into the hands of Putin’s troops.

At present, Moscow has focused its energy in the Donbas region, including the Oblast and Donetsk Oblast area, which has a significant pro-Russian movement before the invasion.

Russian troops continue the operation to capture Severodonetsk and further operations to capture Lysychansk. Russian military leadership is likely to use arrests from these two cities to claim that they have “released” all Luhanansk obligations before switching to the Donetsk Oblast but Russian troops are not possible Around Severodonetsk, “according to the report by the Institue of Study of War.

While Russia has said that they have created administrative units in several occupied areas, an ISW report, quoting the center of Ukraine resistance, observing that some of these units are “made [only] on paper ‘and unable to control local local populations, uphold the use of rubles Russia, or carry out bureaucratic processes. “

The report added that in the Zaporizhia region, Russia’s supported authorities announced the nationalization of state property, including the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which showed that Putin could find “economically exploiting the newly occupied territory with or without direct appliances”. The Kremlin pursuit of inconsistent work steps in several parts of South Ukraine that he arrested suggested “doubts” on the Russian side about how to integrate occupied territory, concluding the report.