Russia claimed that Kyiv's artillery was behind the breach, which experts called impossible. The international community accused Russia of detonating the structure to halt the Ukrainian counteroffensive. On 6 June, a huge dam collapsed, unleashing a vast amount of water into Kherson and ripping thousands of homes from their foundations. It was of little strategic importance, but became a symbol for Ukrainian defiance, forcing Russia to take heavy casualties if it wanted to advance westward. īakhmut, though barely recognisable, continues to be the target of the bloodiest and longest battle of the war. What the Red Cross called a "humanitarian crisis of catastrophic proportions" came to a climax at the Azovstal steelworks, where Ukrainians made their last stand until. Pushed back from the capital, Russia embarked on the siege of Mariupol, opening the world's eyes to the lengths Vladimir Putin was willing to go to take Ukraine. While Russia tried to take Kyiv, a rallying cry heard on the opposite side of the country would go on to encapsulate Ukraine's unrelenting resistance in the face of the Russian war machine.įrom the tiny Snake Island in the Black Sea, Roman Hrybov shouted "Russian war ship go f*** yourself" as his group of 13 soldiers refused to surrender to Russia's bombs. Marking this date, we look back at five moments that will go down in the history books. "For 500 days, Moscow has brought death and destruction to the heart of Europe," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday.
War industries have been brought back to life across the globe and continue to churn out tanks, artillery and drones - with no end to the conflict in sight. The violence has levelled cities, caused at least 23,000 civilian casualties and left swathes of the country covered in mines. As we've been reporting, today marks 500 days of war since Russia invaded Ukraine.
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