- Title: TIMELINE: Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters sixth month
- Date: 21st August 2022
- Summary: MARIUPOL, UKRAINE (FILE - MARCH 24, 2022) (REUTERS) (MUTE) DRONE VIDEO SHOWING PEOPLE WAITING IN QUEUE TO GET HUMANITARIAN AID, BURNT OUT RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS SEEN IN BACKGROUND DRONE VIDEO SHOWING PEOPLE IN QUEUE IN PARKING LOT Ukrainians from the besieged southern port of Mariupol arrived in Taganrog in Russia's Rostov region on March 52. The evacuees were given temporary accommodation at a sports hall turned into a refugee shelter. TAGANROG, RUSSIA (FILE - MARCH 17, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF EVACUEES AT TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION CENTRE BUILT FROM LOCAL SPORT SCHOOL CHILD SITTING WITH TOY A Russian missile attack on a large Ukrainian military facility near the border with NATO member Poland on March 13 killed 35 people and wounded 134, a Ukrainian official said. NOVOYAVORIVSK, UKRAINE (FILE - MARCH 13, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF WOUNDED UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS BEING TRANSPORTED ON STRETCHERS
- 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: LVA00M480927072022RP1
- 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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