Southern Ukraine Campaign
The southern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is an ongoing Theater (warfare)#Theatre of operation, theatre of operation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on 24 February 2022. The Russian Armed Forces, Russian military invaded Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine from Russian occupation of Crimea, Russian-occupied Crimea, quickly entering Mykolaiv Oblast and Zaporizhzhia Oblast amid battles with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Elements from the southern Russian offensive joined forces with elements eastern Ukraine offensive, advancing from the Donbas to jointly Siege of Mariupol, surround and bombard the city of Mariupol in Donetsk Oblast, which fell after months of siege. Kherson was Battle of Kherson, surrounded two days into the war, after which Russian forces advanced to the outskirts of Mykolaiv, Battle of Mykolaiv, which they failed to capture. The front then stabilised until a Ukrainian offensive in August. Ukrainian forces retook all of the territory we ...
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