A year of the Ukraine-Russia war, as it happened

When Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24 2022, the world we lived in changed. Vladimir Putin’s ‘special military operation’ was met with fierce opposition from the Ukrainian people – many of whom resent Russia for their earlier annexation of Crimea in 2014.

Led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who stayed in the bombarded capital Kyiv to defend his nation, Ukraine has retaken cities seized by Russia in recent months as they look to end the war. This is the story, month by month, of a past year of war in Ukraine.