Timeline: Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters 100th day

Record ID: 1675472

  • Title: Timeline: Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters 100th day
  • Date: 1st March 2022
  • Summary: Ukraine defied a Russian demand that its forces lay down arms before dawn on Monday in Mariupol, where hundreds of thousands of civilians have been trapped in a city under siege and already laid to waste by Russian bombardment. Russia's military had ordered Ukrainians inside the city in the country's southeast to surrender by 5 a.m., saying those who did so would be permitted to leave, while those who stayed would be turned over to tribunals run by Russian-backed separatists. Russia has pounded residential areas, causing massive destruction. Nowhere has suffered worse than Mariupol, a port on the Sea of Azov, home to 400,000 people before the war. It has been under siege and constant bombardment, with no food, medicine, power or fresh water, since the invasion's early days. Some people have been allowed out in private cars since last week, but Russian forces have not permitted aid convoys to reach the city. MARIUPOL, UKRAINE (MARCH 17, 2022) (REUTERS) CHILD'S TOY IN DEBRIS IN FRONT OF HEAVILY DAMAGED BUILDING, BURNED TREES IN BACKGROUND HEAVILY DAMAGED AND BURNED APARTMENT BUILDING PEOPLE WITH BELONGINGS ON ROADSIDE, MAN WALKING DOWN STREET STOPPING CAR, HEAVILY DAMAGED BUILDING IN BACKGROUND MAN WITH BELONGINGS WALKING OLD MAN STANDING NEAR BONFIRE, DEBRIS ON GROUND PEOPLE WALKING INTO DAMAGED BUILDING DAMAGED BUILDING PEOPLE PULLING PACKED BOXES, DAMAGED BUILDING WITH BROKEN WINDOWS IN BACKGROUND Long queues of cars were seen leaving the northern suburbs of Mariupol on Thursday (March 17) as civilians headed out of the port city heavily damaged in the Russian offensive in Ukraine. The port city is encircled by Russian forces and has seen some of the fiercest bombardment of the conflict. MARIUPOL, UKRAINE (MARCH 17, 2022) (REUTERS) (MUTE) CARS IN QUEUES ON ROAD, ARMED MEN IN MILITARY UNIFORM STANDING ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ROAD, CIVILIANS WAKLING ALONG ROAD Ukrainians from the besieged southern port of Mariupol arrived in Taganrog in Russia's Rostov region on Thursday (March 17). The evacuees were given temporary accommodation sports hall turned into a refugee shelter. The port city of Mariupol is encircled by Russian forces and has seen fierce bombardment. A statement from the city council said that about 30,000 residents had managed to escape so far, but more than 350,000 remained stuck there. TAGANROG, RUSSIA (MARCH 17, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF EVACUEES AT TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION CENTRE BUILD FROM LOCAL SPORT SCHOOL IN TAGANROG CHILD SITTING WITH TOY MARIUPOL RESIDENTS LYUDMILA AND VIKTOR SLIVKA SPEAKING TO WORKER AT REFUGEE SHELTER (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) MARIUPOL RESIDENT, VIKTOR SLIVKA, 77, SAYING: “The whole of Mariupol. There's nothing left alive in there. I heard that there is no theatre left there now, (it was) bombed. Everything bombed. (CRYING) Where can we return?”
  • Embargoed: 15th March 2022 00:10
  • Keywords: Russia Russian invasion of Ukraine Ukraine key moments timeline
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  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Military Conflicts,Editors' Choice
  • Reuters ID: LVA01K077128022022RP1
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  • Story Text: EDITORS NOTE: FOR PART 2 OF THE TIMELINE PLEASE SEE EDIT 2195-UKRAINE-CRISIS/INVASION TIMELINE 2
    EDITORS NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGE IN SHOT 120
    Russia is heading into the 100th day of its invasion of Ukraine on Saturday (June 4) with no end in sight to the fighting that has killed thousands, uprooted millions and reduced cities to rubble.
    After abandoning its assault on the capital, Kyiv, Russia is pressing on in the east and south in the face of mounting sanctions and a fierce Ukrainian counter-offensive bolstered by Western arms.
    Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th, calling its action a special military operation to demilitarise Ukraine and eradicate what it calls dangerous nationalists backed by an expansionist NATO military alliance. The West and Kyiv accuse Russian President Vladimir Putin of unprovoked aggression.
    On May 20th, the last of the Ukrainian fighters holding out at Mariupol's Azovstal steelworks surrendered to Russian forces, Russia's defence ministry said.
    On May 28th, Ukraine said its forces may need to retreat from their last pocket of resistance in Luhansk to avoid being captured by Russian troops pressing a rapid advance in the east that has shifted the momentum of the three-month-old war.
    (Production: Iona Serrapica, Paul Warren, Vanessa Romeo, Sophia Wang)
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