KEY ASPECTS AND STATISTICS OF THE YEAR-LONG REIGNITED WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE

?KEY ASPECTS AND STATISTICS OF THE YEAR-LONG REIGNITED WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE

On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, following weeks of military a gradual increase build-up along the border of its neighbor. The military outburst between Russia and Ukraine dates back to 2014 when the former annexed Crimea.?On February 22, 2023, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres empathically strongly condemned Russia’s actions in front of a 193-member UN General Assembly, which resumed the Emergency Special Session on Ukraine on Wednesday. Now, a year into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we look at some key aspects and statistics of the war that has had a devastating effect on the lives of many. “This senseless war has reverberated across the world. Higher costs of food and fuel as a result have deepened misery on a global scale, especially among those who were already the most vulnerable.?This war, which is a blatant affront to the UN Charter and the whole body of international law built to protect human beings everywhere, and its vast human toll must end now.” “Efforts to establish accountability and justice for violations of international law must intensify and deepen. It is equally vital that victims are able to access reparations and the practical assistance they desperately need, without first having to wait for the outcomes of formal legal proceedings,” the High Commissioner said.

Russia’s hold on Ukrainian territories

The map below shows the Ukrainian territories taken by Russia along with areas that were later reclaimed by Ukraine, as of February 20, 2023. Heavy fighting continued in Hrianykivka, Kreminna, and Bakhmut, along with other areas. The updates for the day (February 20) are marked from 1 to 6 in blue and are detailed at the bottom of the graphic. Right from Russia’s forces surrounding Kyiv in February 2022, where they met heavy resistance from the Ukrainians, up until what could indicate a new Russian offensive after February 24, 2023, the graphic below is a timeline of key events, of the past year.????

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Military Losses & Casualties

The ongoing conflict has been brutal and shows no signs of stopping any time soon. As of February 21, 2023, the deaths of Russian and Ukrainian military personnel amounted to 1,80,000 and 1,00,000, respectively. As of October 23, 2022, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) had reported that there were 16,150 civilian casualties in Ukraine, since February 24, 2022. The graphic below shows the scale of military losses of both countries as of February 21, 2023. The graphic below also showcases the civilian casualties in Ukraine, as of February 15, 2023. Since the conflict began, over 8000 civilians have lost their lives. The number of casualties is likely to be higher since there is a delay in receiving information and updating the count, as per OHCHR.

Refugees

As a result of the war, nearly one-third of the population of Ukraine remains forcibly displaced from their homes, making it one of the largest displacement crises in the world today, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Some key indicators on the scale of displacement are: Around?5.4 million people are internally displaced across Ukraine, according to the?‘Ukraine — Internal Displacement Report — General Population Survey Round 12 (16 - 23 January 2023) ‘conducted by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), UN Migration. “This represents a decrease compared to 5.9 million as of 5 December 2022. The estimated number of IDPs in Ukraine has been steadily declining since August 2022 (Round 8)“, the report states, where IDPs are an acronym for ‘Internally Displaced Persons’. 83% of current IDPs have been displaced for three months or longer. Over?8 million (8,087,952) refugees from Ukraine were recorded across Europe and beyond,?out of whom over 4.8 million?(4,863,513)?have registered for temporary protection or similar national protection schemes, according to?UNHCR’s report titled “Lives on Hold: Intentions and Perspectives of Refugees from Ukraine #3”?and?UNHCR’s Operational Data Portal on the Ukraine Refugee Situation. Additionally, there have been 18,843,973 border crossings from Ukraine (since 24 February 2022), according to?UNHCR.?But UNHCR specifies that this figure ‘reflects cross-border movements (and not individuals). An additional 105,000 people moved to the Russian Federation from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions between 18 and 23 February the graphic below shows the number of refugees under UNHCR’s mandate over the years. By July 2022, UNHCR had recorded over 5.4 million refugees already.

Foreign Aid to Ukraine

Between January 24, 2022 and January 15, 2023, several countries provided military, humanitarian, and finalities. The U.S. provided €73.17 billion of aid to Ukraine, €44.34 billion of which, was military aid. The E.U. (Commission and Council) provided almost €30 billion, most of which was financial. Germany, Canada, U.K., and Poland provided considerable aid as well, as shown in the graphic below, which also shows the amount of aid provided by other countries as well.

Sanctions on Russia

The U.S. became the first country to sanction Russia with asset freezes, bans on banks and individuals, and then deeper financial sanctions. These came over the existing sanctions that the U.S. and EU had placed on Russia in 2014 following Crimea’s annexation. Other countries followed with their own sanctions. These measures were wide-ranging and meant to isolate and cripple Russia’s economy. Four major Russian banks and around a dozen others could no longer be used by other countries for transactions. Asset freezes against Putin, Lavrov, members of the Russian parliament, or the Duma and the government was initiated. The sanctions made travel hard, too. Russian planes were banned from access to western airports and EU airspace. Suspending State-owned Russian media Russia Today and Sputnik, a U.S. ban on all oil and energy imports from Russia, the EU, and Germany abandoning the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project and major U.S. companies distancing themselves from Russia are some measures. Altogether, Russia became the world’s most sanctioned country, surpassing Iran, Syria, North Korea, and others with more than 5,300 sanctions against it. The graphic below maps where the sanctions come from and where they do not.

India abstains in six resolutions against the war

The 193-member United Nations General Assembly met six times to pass resolutions condemning Russia. India has consistently abstained in all the resolutions. India’s stand has been for peace, diplomacy, and dialogue. It has not sanctioned Russia either. At the same time, it has stressed the need to respect the U.N. Charter, international law, and the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states. Now, a year into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we look at some key aspects and statistics of the war that has had a devastating effect on the lives of many. Themselves from Russia are some measures. Altogether, Russia became the world’s most sanctioned country, surpassing Iran, Syria, North Korea, and others with more than 5,300 setbacks, Wagner and its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, contin /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////ued to gain influence within the Kremlin as commanders in Russia’s regular army struggled to produce the desired results for Putin’s “special mil.

Russia’s hold on Ukrainian territories

The map below shows the Ukrainian territories taken by Russia along with areas that were later reclaimed by Ukraine, as of February 20, 2023. Heavy fighting continued in Hrianykivka, Kreminna, and Bakhmut, along with other areas. The updates for the day (February 20) are marked from 1 to 6 in blue and are detailed at the bottom of the graphic.

Ukraine

Between January 24, 2022, and January 15, 2023, several countries provided military, humanitarian, and financial aid to Ukraine in different capacities. The U.S. provided €73.17 billion of aid to Ukraine, €44.34 billion of which, was military aid. The E.U. (Commission and Council) provided almost €30 billion, most of which was financial. Germany, Canada, U.K., and Poland provided considerable aid as well, as shown in the graphic below, which also shows the amount of aid provided by other countries as well. Altogether, Russia became the world’s most sanctioned country, surpassing Iran, Syria, North Korea and others with more than 5,300 sanctions against it.

The next leg of the Russia-Ukraine war?

Türk deplores human cost of Russia’s war against Ukraine as verified civilian casualties for last year pass 21,000. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today deplored the human cost of the war in Ukraine that has left at least 8,006 civilians dead and 13,287 injured over the past 12 months, in addition to the numerous lives previously lost in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.” These numbers, which we are publishing today, lay bare the loss and suffering inflicted on people since Russia’s armed attack began on 24 February last year; suffering he saw for his country ?Ukraine in December. And our data are only the tip of the iceberg. The toll on civilians is unbearable. Amid electricity and water shortages during the cold winter months, nearly 18 million people are in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Some 14 million people have been displaced from their homes,” Türk said.

“The very young to the very old have all been affected. Students have seen their education halted or disrupted by attacks on educational facilities, while older people and people with disabilities have faced immense challenges, in some cases unable to reach bomb shelters or having to spend prolonged periods in basements in conditions affecting their health,” the UN Human Rights Chief said. Most of those remaining in conflict-affected areas are older people, who are often reluctant or unable to leave dangerous areas. “Every day that violations of international human rights and humanitarian law continue, it becomes harder and harder to find a way forward through mounting suffering and destruction, towards peace,” Türk stressed. According to the UN Human Rights Office’s monitoring mission in Ukraine, of the adult civilian casualties whose sex was known, men accounted for 61.1 per cent of civilian casualties and women for 39.9 per cent. At least 487 children were killed and 954 injured. Some 90.3 per cent of civilian casualties were caused by explosive weapons with wide area effects, including artillery shells, cruise and ballistic missiles, and air strikes. Most occurred in populated areas. The Office has also recorded 632 civilian casualties – 219 killed and 413 injured – caused by mines and explosive remnants of war.

The Office’s presence on the ground, which has been monitoring civilian casualties in Ukraine since 2014, has stressed that the actual figures are likely substantially higher, as its numbers only reflect verified individual cases. The monitoring mission has received information regarding 21 civilian casualties – six killed and 15 injured – in the territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, occupied by the Russian Federation. Many reports of civilian casualties are still pending corroboration in other occupied areas of Ukraine, notably in locations such as Mariupol (Donetsk region) and Lysychansk, Powassan, and Sievierodonetsk (Luhansk region).In admire the devastating price civilians on both sides of the frontline have paid and continue to pay,” Türk said.

SOARING DEATH TOLL GIVES GRIM INSIGHT INTO RUSSIAN TACTICS

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Ukrainian medical evacuation team members await calls for wounded soldiers in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, which has been the scene of heavy fighting. Credit. The number of Russian troops killed and wounded in Ukraine is approaching 200,000, a stark symbol of just how badly President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion has gone, according to American and other Western officials. While the officials caution that casualties are notoriously difficult to estimate, particularly because Moscow is believed to routinely undercount its war dead and injured, they say the slaughter from fighting in and around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut and the town of Soledar has ballooned what was already a heavy toll. With Moscow desperate for a major battlefield victory and viewing Bakhmut as the key to seizing the entire eastern Donbas area., the Russian military has sent poorly trained recruits and former convicts to the front lines, straight into the path of Ukrainian shelling and machine guns. The result, American officials say, has been hundreds of troops killed or injured a day. Russia analysts say that the loss of life is unlikely to be a deterrent to Mr. Putin’s war aims. He has no political opposition at home and has framed the war as the kind of struggle the country faced in World War II, when more than 8 million Soviet troops died. U.S. officials have said that they believe that Mr. Putin can sustain hundreds of thousands of casualties in Ukraine, although higher numbers could cut into his political support.

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Ukraine’s casualty figures are also difficult to ascertain, given Kyiv’s reluctance to disclose its own wartime losses. But in Bakhmut, hundreds of Ukrainian troops have been wounded and killed daily at times as well, officials said. Better trained infantry formations are kept in reserve to safeguard them, while lesser prepared troops, such as those in the territorial defense units, are kept on the front line and bear the brunt of shelling. The last public Biden administration estimate of casualties came last November, when Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that more than 100,000 troops on each side had been killed and wounded since the war began. At the time, officials said privately that the numbers were closer to 120,000. At two meetings last month between senior military and defense officials from NATO and partner countries, officials said the fighting in the Donbas had turned into, as one of them put it, a meat grinder.

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Senior U.S. officials said this week that they believe the number for Russia is closer to 200,000. That toll, in just 11 months, is eight times higher than American casualties in two decades of war in Afghanistan. The figures for Ukraine and Russia are estimates based on satellite imagery, communication intercepts, social media and on-the-ground media reports, as well as official reporting from both governments. Establishing precise numbers is extremely difficult, and estimates vary, even within the U.S. government. A senior U.S. military official last month described the combat around Bakhmut as savage. The two sides exchanged several thousand rounds of artillery fire each day, while the Wagner private military company, which has been central to Russia’s efforts there, had essentially begun using recruited convicts as cannon fodder, the official told reporters. He spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational details. The convicts took the brunt of the Ukrainian response while the group’s more seasoned fighters moved in behind them to claim ground, the official said. Wagner has recruited some 50,000 troops to fight in Ukraine, according to senior American military and defense officials. Defense Ministry estimates that?more than 200,000?Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded since the start of the invasion. Russia has likely lost?more than 2,000?tanks in its war in Ukraine, more than half of its operational tank fleet

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?Loss to Ukraine ?

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Personnel

~663.440?+2800

killed~165.610

wounded~496.830

prisoner of war~1.000

In percent

100

%

190.000ended for invasion

73.7

%

900.000

Russian armed forces

Armored combat vehicles

6869?+16

In percent

100

%

2.900

intended for invasion

49.9

%

13.758

Russian armed forces

Tanks

3537?+5

In percent

100

%

1.200

intended for invasion

100

%

3.300

Russian armed forces

Artillery

2577?+9

In percent

100

%

1.600

intended for invasion

45.3

%

5.689

Russian armed forces

Aircrafts

305

In percent

92.4

%

330

intended for invasion

22.1

%

1.379

Russian armed forces

Helicopters

290

In percent

100

%

240

intended for invasion

30.2 %%

961

Russian armed forces

Ships and boats

18

In percent

24%

75

intended for invasion

3.5 %

519

Russian armed forces

Ukraine war updates: ‘Significant’ losses inflicted on Russia

Ukrainian service members ride on a military vehicle with a ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft cannon in the front-line city of Vuhledar, Ukraine [Yevhen Titov/Reuters]. Ukraine’s military is inflicting “extraordinarily significant” losses on Russian forces near the town of Vuhledar in the eastern Donbas region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says. “The situation is very complicated … We are breaking down the invaders and inflicting extraordinarily significant losses on Russia,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address. He referred to several towns in Donbas, where fighting has been focused for months, saying “the more losses Russia suffers there in Donbas – in Bakhmut, Vuhledar, Marinka, Kreminna – the faster we will be able to end this war”.

How will the Russian war on Ukraine unfold?

It has been almost a year since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, sowing death and destruction across the country. The toll of the war is grim: thousands of Ukrainian civilians dead, tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides killed, millions displaced, and whole Ukrainian towns and villages razed to the ground. As we move into the second year, both sides are preparing large-scale offensives, with tens of thousands of new recruits and new sophisticated hardware being sent to the front line. A wide range of scenarios that are viable to a different extent may unfold this year. The only thing we can predict with a high degree of confidence is that we are going to se, but warned it would not solve Kyiv’s urgent need for more ammunition now.

Borrell was responding to an Estonian proposal for the EU to place large ammunition orders on behalf of multiple member states to speed up procurement and encourage European arms firms to invest in increasing their production capacities. EU officials and diplomats say they are urgently exploring the possibility of joint procurement of 155-millimeter artillery shells to help Kyiv defend itself against Russia. EU foreign ministers are expected to discuss the Estonian plan in Brussels on Monday. In a panel discussion with Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas in Munich on Sunday, Borrell said: “I completely agree with the Estonian prime minister’s proposal, we are working on that and it will work. “But in a speech before the discussion, Borrell said joint procurement could only bear fruit in the medium term. Right now, Ukraine’s supporters must quickly send supplies from existing stocks, he said. “This [shortage] cannot be solved by going into joint procurement … because any procurement that comes to the market will come at the end of a queue of a long list of orders already passed by the member states. “A Ukrainian service member checks Russian artillery shells captured during a counteroffensive operation

US plans fresh round of sanctions on Russia: Report

The administration of United States President imposed The new sanctions will target Russia’s defense and energy sectors, financial institutions and several individuals, the report said.?Top of Form

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Russian shelling has killed three adult membtheers of a family in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, regional authorities have said. Four others – including two children – were injured in the Sunday attack when a shell flew into the yard of a house in the village of Burgunka, officials said. “The Russian occupiers killed a family in the region of Kherson,” the regional administration said in a statement. “Three people died at the scene of the tragedy – the father, mother and uncle. “Separately, an eight-year-old boy was injured by the shelling in the same village, the regional authorities said September, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the annexation of four Ukrainian regions including Kherson. In November, Moscow ordered its troops to withdraw from the city of Kherson in a humiliating defeat for the Russian army.

Russia says Ukraine is planning to stage nuclear incident

Russia says Ukraine is planning to stage a nuclear incident on its territory to pin the blame on Moscow ahead of a UN meeting. It did not provide evidence for the accusation. Since the start of its invasion of Ukraine nearly a year ago, Russia has repeatedly accused Kyiv of planning “false flag” operations with non-conventional weapons, using biological or radioactive materials. No such attack has materialized. Russia’s Ministry of Defense said in a statement that radioactive substances had been transported to Ukraine from a European country and Kyiv was preparing a large-scale “provocation”. He aim of the provocation is to accuse Russia’s army of allegedly carrying out indiscriminate strikes on hazardous radioactive facilities in Ukraine, leading to the leakage of radioactive substances and contamination of the area,” it said. Ukraine and its allies have dismissed such accusations as cynical attempts to spread disinformation and has accused Moscow of planning such incidents itself in a bid to blame Ukraine.

CONCLUSION

Both countries have been increasing live and livelihoods, employers and employees must be prepared. Everyday seems that ?war is just started today.???????????????