- Title: TIMELINE: Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters sixth month
- Date: 21st August 2022
- Summary: SEVASTOPOL, CRIMEA (FILE - APRIL 15, 2022) (REUTERS) RESERVE CAPTAIN SERGEI GORBACHEV SPEAKING IN FRONT OF CEREMONY PARTICIPANTS / PEOPLE AT CEREMONY PERSON LAYING FLOWERS PEOPLE NEAR RUSSIAN FLEET MEMORIAL Though Russian soldiers seized control of Chornobyl soon after the Feb. 24 invasion, the plant's Ukrainian staff continued to oversee the safe storage of spent nuclear fuel and supervise the concrete-encased remains of the reactor that exploded in 1986, which caused the world's worst nuclear accident. The Ukrainian state nuclear company said on March 31 that all of the Russian forces occupying the Chornobyl nuclear power station had withdrawn from the territory of the defunct plant. CHORNOBYL EXCLUSION ZONE, UKRAINE (FILE - APRIL 16, 2022) (REUTERS) (MUTE) DRONE FOOTAGE OF TRENCHES SAID TO BE DUG BY RUSSIAN SOLDIERS IN AN AREA WITH HIGH LEVEL OF RADIATION CALLED "THE RED FOREST" NEAR CHORNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
- Embargoed: 5th September 2022 00:29
- Keywords: Donbas Kyiv Luhansk Mariupol Moscow Poland Russia Russian invasion Ukraine Vladimir Putin Volodymyr Zelenskiy bombing evacuation explosion refugees shelling six months war
- Location: VARIOUS
- City: VARIOUS
- Country: Ukraine
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA013480927072022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: THIS EDIT CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES AND PROFANE LANGUAGE / THIS IS A WRAP AND CONTAINS NO NEW MATERIAL
EDITORS NOTE: PLEASE SEE THE FOLLOWING PROFILES AND TIMELINES THAT HAVE BEEN SENT TO COINCIDE WITH THE SIX MONTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CONFLICT: 4205-UKRAINE-CRISIS/GRAIN-TIMELINE; 0008-UKRAINE-CRISIS/MARIUPOL-TIMELINE; 4306 UKRAINE-CRISIS/PUTIN-TIMELINE; 8206-UKRAINE-CRISIS/ZELENSKIY-PROFILE
Wednesday (August 24) marks six months since the start of the war in Ukraine.
Thousands of people have been killed and millions forced to flee since Russia launched its invasion on February 24, saying it aimed to demilitarise Ukraine and protect Russian speakers on what Russian President Vladimir Putin called historical Russian land.
Ukraine and Western countries view it as a war of conquest aimed at wiping out Ukraine's national identity.
More than 10.5 million people have crossed the border from Ukraine since Russia's invasion, the United Nations Refugee agency UNHCR said on its website on August 9.
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