Earlier this week, the 1,000th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 — the largest European conflict since World War II — was surpassed.
Nearly three years on, major missile and drone attacks continue to target key Ukrainian energy infrastructure and claim civilian lives.
Moscow’s continued war of aggression is expending vast amounts of weaponry and human life to make small but steady territorial gains around the nearly one-fifth of Ukraine it already controls.
In its first year, Kyiv lost significant territory but achieved key victories, resisting a larger adversary and reclaiming land through counteroffensives. Ukrainian forces pushed Russian troops back across the Dnipro River and even launched an incursion into Russia’s Kursk region by mid-2024.
Despite these efforts, Russia retains control of swaths of eastern Ukraine, including Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Crimea. After two years of stagnant frontlines, the war has settled into a grinding stalemate.
The war in Ukraine has displaced millions, triggering a refugee crisis across Europe.
On the 1,000th day of the conflict, UN Humanitarian Coordinator Matthias Schmale highlighted the severe toll on civilians, with over 2,000 attacks on healthcare facilities and two million homes damaged.
Nearly 40% of Ukraine’s population now relies on humanitarian aid, underscoring the impact of the prolonged war on infrastructure and human lives.
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