Russia’s war in Ukraine has stalled over the past year, with neither side making any huge gains along the hundreds-of-miles-long front line. Attacks including missile strikes, drone strikes and shelling from both Ukrainian and Russian forces remain concentrated in the same general areas they were mired in at the end of 2022.
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Five maps show where the war in Ukraine stands after two years
Strikes in the 1st year of war
2nd year of war
BELARUS
Kyiv
RUSSIA
POLAND
UKRAINE
Donetsk
MOL.
ROMANIA
Sea of Azov
CRIMEA
Black Sea
Illegally annexed
by Russia in 2014
Note: Drone strikes, shelling, artillery, missile attacks, remote explosive, landmines and IED. Data available from Feb. 24, 2022 to Feb. 16, 2024.
Source: ACLED
1st year of war
2nd year of war
RUSSIA
Strikes
Kyiv
Kyiv
Kharkiv
Kharkiv
Lviv
Lviv
UKRAINE
Luhansk
Luhansk
Dnipro
Dnipro
Donetsk
Donetsk
Mykolaiv
Mykolaiv
Area held by
Russian-backed
separatists
since 2014
CRIMEA
Illegally annexed
by Russia in 2014
Note: Drone strikes, shelling, artillery, missile attacks, remote explosive, landmines and IED. Data available from Feb. 24, 2022 to Feb. 16, 2024.
Source: ACLED
2ND YEAR OF WAR
STRIKES IN THE 1ST YEAR OF WAR
BELARUS
POLAND
Kyiv
RUSSIA
Kharkiv
Lviv
UKRAINE
Dnipro
Luhansk
Donetsk
MOL.
Mykolaiv
Area held by
Russian-backed
separatists
since 2014
ROMANIA
Sea of Azov
CRIMEA
Illegally annexed
by Russia
in 2014
Black Sea
Note: Drone strikes, shelling, artillery, missile attacks, remote explosive, landmines and IED.
Data available from Feb. 24, 2022 to Feb. 16, 2024.
Source: ACLED
STRIKES IN THE 1ST YEAR OF WAR
2ND YEAR OF WAR
BELARUS
POLAND
Kyiv
RUSSIA
Kharkiv
Kharkiv
Lviv
UKRAINE
SLOVAK.
Dnipro
Luhansk
Donetsk
Donetsk
HUN.
Area held by
Russian-backed
separatists
since 2014
MOL.
Mykolaiv
ROMANIA
Sea of Azov
CRIMEA
Illegally annexed
by Russia
in 2014
Black Sea
Note: Drone strikes, shelling, artillery, missile attacks, remote explosive, landmines and IED. Data available from Feb. 24, 2022 to Feb. 16, 2024.
Source: ACLED
But the fighting has intensified, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, which has been tracking such incidents throughout the war. The organization recorded 9,700 battle events — armed clashes, or the takeover or recovery of territory — in the second year of the war, a 32 percent increase compared with the first year. It said the increase was mainly due to increased fighting in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, both of which Ukraine focused on in its failed counteroffensive.
The group recorded 22 territorial gains by Ukraine and 31 by Russia this past year, compared with 600 total in the first year of fighting.
The second anniversary of the war comes at a critical time, when fighting has morphed into a battle of attrition and Kyiv may run out of Western-provided ammunition as aid stalls.
“When you start running out of artillery, you need more troops,” said Max Bergmann, director of the Europe, Russia and Eurasia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “You start putting more men on the front line and then start losing those men.”
March 2022
In the early stages of the war, the focus of the
fighting was around Kyiv and in eastern Ukraine.
RUSSIA
Kyiv
Kharkiv
UKRAINE
Donetsk
Kherson
Russia captured the
city of Kherson on March 2.
July 2022
There was intense fighting on the banks of the
Donets River and near Kharkiv.
RUSSIA
Kyiv
Kharkiv
UKRAINE
Donetsk
Mykolaiv
Kherson
150 MILES
Fighting
in the Mykolaiv region
north of Kherson.
December 2022
In early September 2022, Ukraine retook
several settlements in the Kharkiv region.
Kyiv
Kharkiv
UKRAINE
Donetsk
Kherson
Ukraine launched its Kherson
counteroffensive in August 2022.
Its forces retook settlements in the Mykolaiv
region and the city of Kherson, pushing the
front line to the Dnieper River.
January 2024
The front line has remained without significant
changes since late 2022, with several small
towns near Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia becoming
the main battlegrounds.
RUSSIA
Kyiv
Kharkiv
UKRAINE
Bakhmut
Avdiivka
Zaporizhzhia
Donetsk
Orikhiv
March 2022
In the early stages of the war, the focus of the
fighting was around Kyiv and in eastern Ukraine.
RUSSIA
Kyiv
Kharkiv
UKRAINE
Donetsk
Kherson
Russia captured the
city of Kherson on March 2.
July 2022
There was intense fighting on the banks of the
Donets River and near Kharkiv.
RUSSIA
Kyiv
Kharkiv
UKRAINE
Donetsk
Mykolaiv
Kherson
150 MILES
Fighting
in the Mykolaiv region
north of Kherson.
December 2022
In early September 2022, Ukraine retook
several settlements in the Kharkiv region.
Kyiv
Kharkiv
UKRAINE
Donetsk
Kherson
Ukraine launched its Kherson counteroffensive
in August 2022. Its forces retook settlements
in the Mykolaiv region and the city of Kherson,
pushing the front line to the Dnieper River.
January 2024
The front line has remained without
significant changes since late 2022, with several
small towns near Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia
becoming the main battlegrounds.
RUSSIA
Kyiv
Kharkiv
UKRAINE
Bakhmut
Avdiivka
Zaporizhzhia
Donetsk
Orikhiv
640
MANDATORY SIZE
March 2022
In the early stages of the war,
the focus of the fighting was around
Kyiv and in eastern Ukraine.
July 2022
There was intense fighting
on the banks of the Donets
River and near Kharkiv
RUSSIA
Kyiv
Kharkiv
RUSSIA
Kyiv
UKRAINE
Donetsk
Kharkiv
UKRAINE
Donetsk
Kherson
Mykolaiv
Russia captured the
city of Kherson on March 2.
Kherson
150 MILES
Fighting
in the Mykolaiv region
north of Kherson.
December 2022
In early September 2022, Ukraine retook
several settlements in the Kharkiv region.
January 2024
RUSSIA
Kyiv
Kharkiv
RUSSIA
UKRAINE
Kyiv
Kharkiv
Donetsk
UKRAINE
Bakhmut
Avdiivka
Zaporizhzhia
Kherson
Donetsk
Orikhiv
Ukraine launched its Kherson counteroffensive
in August 2022. Its forces retook settlements
in the Mykolaiv region and the city of Kherson,
pushing the front line to the Dnieper River.
The front line has remained without
significant changes since late 2022,
with several small towns near Donetsk
and Zaporizhzhia becoming
the main battlegrounds.
March 2022
In the early stages of the war, the focus of the
fighting was around Kyiv and in eastern Ukraine.
July 2022
There was intense fighting on the banks of the
Donets River and near Kharkiv.
RUSSIA
Kyiv
Kharkiv
RUSSIA
Kyiv
UKRAINE
Donetsk
Kharkiv
UKRAINE
Donetsk
Kherson
Mykolaiv
Russia captured the
city of Kherson on March 2.
Kherson
150 MILES
Fighting
in the Mykolaiv region
north of Kherson.
December 2022
In early September 2022, Ukraine retook
settlements in the Kharkiv region.
January 2024
Kyiv
Kharkiv
RUSSIA
UKRAINE
Kyiv
POLAND
Kharkiv
UKRAINE
Donetsk
Bakhmut
Avdiivka
Zaporizhzhia
Kherson
Donetsk
MOL.
Orikhiv
ROMANIA
Ukraine launched its Kherson
counteroffensive in August 2022. Its forces
retook settlements in the Mykolaiv region and
the city of Kherson, pushing the front line
to the Dnieper River.
The front line has remained
without significant changes
since late 2022, with several small towns
near Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia becoming
the main battlegrounds.
Russia has built heavy fortifications, including razor wire and trenches, hardening the front line.
It’s one of the reasons Ukrainian forces tried and failed to make progress during the summer counteroffensive.
Bergmann said that in the third year of the war, Ukraine would focus on rebuilding its infantry and replenishing ammunition stocks with the goal to “potentially to go on the offensive in 2025.” But that may be hard to achieve as the West’s desire to send more aid to the country wanes.
Moscow has already made incremental gains this year, seizing the eastern city of Avdiivka in mid-February.
“Ukraine didn’t do as much hardening of its line [in the second year] because it was hoping to break through.” Now, Bergmann said, after a year of focusing on fortifications, Russia appears to be pushing to gain more ground.