What are the results of the first month of the Russian special operation in Ukraine

During the first month of the special operation in Ukraine RUSSIAgradually expanded the use of various military systems, continuing to use the tactics of blocking large cities.There was no turning point in NATO support for Kyiv

How the combat map has changed

By the morning of March 24, a month after the start of a special military operation in Ukraine, the Russian military reported that they had taken control of the city of regional significance in the Kharkiv region - Izyum. The city with a population of about 50 thousand people is a regional transport hub - the Kharkiv-Krasny Lyman line passes through the Izyum railway station, and the M-03 and T-2109 highways also pass through the city. Izyum is the second city in the Kharkiv region that the Russian military managed to take under their control: on March 3, the neighboring city of Balakleya (population about 30,000) was taken, where there are a cement and repair plants, as well as an ammunition base.

Since March 15, under the control of the Russian Armed Forces - Kherson region, located on the Azov coast, which has administrative borders with Crimea. According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine for 2020, the population of the region exceeds one million people. Of these, about 300 thousand live in the industrial and cultural center of the Kherson region. This is a major railway junction, a sea and river port, an international airport; There are several shipbuilding and ship repair enterprises in the city. Kherson Shipbuilding Plant is one of the largest such enterprises in Ukraine and Europe.

What places in Ukraine were taken under control by the Russian military. Map Politics

According to the reports of the Russian Ministry of Defense, part of the Zaporozhye region is also under the control of the Russian military, including the cities of Energodar, where the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is located, Tokmak with a population of over 35 thousand people (one of the oldest plants in Ukraine, Yuzhdizelmash, is located in the city), the second largest the largest city of the Melitopol region (more than 150 thousand people), the small city of Vasilyevka (13 thousand people), through which the Pridneprovskaya railway passes, and the settlements of Blagoveshchenka, Sinya Gora, Petrovskoe, Shevchenkovskoe, Sladkaya Balka, Ilchenkovo, Ocherevataya, Novoprokopovka, Dorozhnyanka, Zagornoe and Charivnoe.