On 24 February 2022, the Russian military
invaded
An invasion is a military offensive of combatants of one geopolitical entity, usually in large numbers, entering territory controlled by another similar entity, often involving acts of aggression.
Generally, invasions have objectives of co ...
Ukraine, crossing the
Russia-Ukraine and
Belarus–Ukraine borders at several points in
Chernihiv Oblast
Chernihiv Oblast (), also referred to as Chernihivshchyna (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in northern Ukraine. The capital city, administrative center of the oblast is the city of Chernihiv. There are 1,511 sett ...
. Russian troops
unsuccessfully attempted to capture the capital city of the oblast,
Chernihiv
Chernihiv (, ; , ) is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of Chernihiv Oblast and Chernihiv Raion within the oblast. Chernihiv's population is
The city was designated as a Hero City of Ukraine ...
, as part of a strategy to reach the Ukraine's capital
Kyiv
Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...
from the east.
By 3 April, all Russian forces had reportedly left Chernihiv Oblast.
Occupation
Horodnia
Horodnia was occupied on 24 February 2022, the first day of the invasion.
Russian forces left Horodnia on 1 April, blowing up a bridge as they withdrew. According to Ukrainian officials, the situation in the town was "under control" by the next day.
Russian withdrawal
In late March 2022, Russian officials said that their forces would "drastically" reduce military operations around Kyiv and Chernihiv,
and announced on 29 March that they would withdraw from the areas.
On 30 March, Russia began withdrawing troops from
northern Ukraine
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* Over-Dnieper ...
, including Chernihiv Oblast. By 31 March, the Chernihiv Oblast governor
Vyacheslav Chaus
Vyacheslav Anatoliyovych Chaus (; born on 28 August 1977) is a Ukrainian politician who is currently the governor of Chernihiv Oblast since 4 August 2021.
Biography
Vyacheslav Chaus was born in Chernihiv on 28 August 1977.
In 1995, he graduat ...
said that Russian forces had begun withdrawing from the region.
[
Ukrainian forces started recapturing many towns and settlements and by 3 April, Ukrainian officials and ]the Pentagon
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claimed Russian forces left Chernihiv Oblast for redeployment in Donbas
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and South Ukraine
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.
Aftermath
After Russian forces withdrew, Ukrainian forces began demining operations in Chernihiv Oblast.
Russian forces still shell small towns and villages near the border with Russia.
On 15 November 2024, a likely Russian reconnaissance and sabotage unit conducted a cross-border incursion into the Chernihiv Oblast. According to Russian military bloggers, the Russian force entered and/or seized the villages of Hremiach
Hremiach () is a village in Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, northern Ukraine. The village is the northernmost point of Ukraine. It belongs to Novhorod-Siverskyi urban hromada, one of the hromada
In Ukraine, a hromada () is the ...
, , and , though the Institute for the Study of War
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) is an American nonprofit research group and advocacy think tank founded in 2007 by military historian Kimberly Kagan and headquartered in Washington, D.C. ISW provides research and analysis of modern arm ...
was unable to confirm that the Russian forces were maintaining positions in the area; Ukrainian officials claimed that Russian forces only briefly crossed into the region as part of an "information operation."
Control of cities
See also
* Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...
* Russo-Ukrainian War
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* Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian War
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Russo-Ukrainian War – ongoing international conflict between Russia, alongside Russian-backed separatists, and Ukraine, which ...
* Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine
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** Russian occupation of Crimea
On 27 February 2014, Little green men (Russo-Ukrainian War), unmarked Russian soldiers were deployed to the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula in order to wrest control of it from Ukraine, starting the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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** Russian occupation of Donetsk Oblast
The Donetsk People's Republic (DPR; , ) is occupied territory in Ukraine that the Russian Federation has claimed to annex and declared as a republic of Russia, comprising parts of eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast, with its capital in Done ...
** Russian occupation of Kharkiv Oblast
The Russian occupation of Kharkiv Oblast, officially the Kharkov Military–Civilian Administration, is an ongoing military occupation that began on 24 February 2022, after Russian forces invaded Ukraine and began capturing and occupying part ...
** Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast
The ongoing military occupation of Ukraine's Kherson Oblast () by Russian forces began on 24February 2022, when Russian forces Russian invasion of Ukraine, invaded Ukraine from Crimea. It was administrated under a Russian-controlled military-ci ...
** Russian occupation of Kyiv Oblast
The Russian occupation of Kyiv Oblast was a military occupation that began on the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The capital, Kyiv, was extensively bombed during the invasion, but was never captured. However, ma ...
** Russian occupation of Luhansk Oblast
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** Russian occupation of Mykolaiv Oblast
Parts of Ukraine's Mykolaiv Oblast came under military occupation by Russian forces as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
By March 2022, after Battle of Voznesensk, unsuccessfully attempting to take Voznesensk and Battle of Mykolaiv, capt ...
** Russian occupation of Sumy Oblast
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** Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
The ongoing military occupation of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Oblast () began after Russian forces launched southern Ukraine campaign, an invasion of mainland Ukraine out of Crimea on 24 February 2022. Russian-controlled parts of the oblast wer ...
** Russian occupation of Zhytomyr Oblast
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** Snake Island during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
* Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
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* 2022 protests in Russian-occupied Ukraine
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* Ukrainian resistance during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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* War crimes in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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* Russian war crimes
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* War crime
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Chernihiv
Chernihiv (, ; , ) is a city and municipality in northern Ukraine, which serves as the administrative center of Chernihiv Oblast and Chernihiv Raion within the oblast. Chernihiv's population is
The city was designated as a Hero City of Ukraine ...
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