Conflict coverage · Eastern Europe

Full-scale invasion

24 Feb 2022Key eventEssentialKyiv axis

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Military & security

Effects & resilience

MilitaryTerritorial changeThe eastern front

Russia invades on multiple axes expecting rapid collapse. The drive on Kyiv fails within six weeks.

Why it mattersThe largest interstate war in Europe since 1945 begins; the failure at Kyiv converts a planned regime change into a long attritional conflict.

Confidence: HighSources: Established historical recordMethodology Corrections

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6 records that this event names, or that name it. Every one is an explicit reference in a published record — nothing here is inferred from subject matter.

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Campaigns whose record places this event inside them.

Force generationMass volunteering and territorial expansion
Black SeaBlockade and the loss of seaborne export
Invasion 2022Opening strikes and the four axes

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Actor records this event names.

Russia

Participants

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4th Guards Tank Division · atlasParticipantmoderate confidence

Also named

Bayraktar TB2 · equipment

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