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Last Updated: August 24, 2023, 10:20 AM EDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin's "special military operation" into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, to the east. Ukrainian troops have offered "stiff resistance," according to U.S. officials.

The Russian military has since launched a full-scale ground offensive in eastern Ukraine's disputed Donbas region, capturing the strategic port city of Mariupol and securing a coastal corridor to the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula.

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Jun 27, 2022, 4:58 PM EDT

13 dead in mall strike

At least 13 people were killed and more than 40 were hurt when a shopping mall was hit by missile strikes in the city of Kremenchuk in Ukraine's central Poltava region, according to the governor of the Poltava Oblast, Dmytro Lunin.

Rescuers work at a site of a shopping mall hit by a Russian missile strike in Kremenchuk, in Poltava region, Ukraine, June 27, 2022.
Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine via Reuters

Rescuers work at a site of a shopping mall hit by a Russian missile strike in Kremenchuk, in Poltava region, Ukraine, June 27, 2022.
Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine via Reuters

PHOTO: escuers work at a site of a shopping mall hit by a Russian missile strike, ain Kremenchuk, in Poltava region, Ukraine, June 27, 2022.
Rescuers work at a site of a shopping mall hit by a Russian missile strike, ain Kremenchuk, in Poltava region, Ukraine, June 27, 2022.
Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine via Reuters

Over 1,000 civilians were there at the time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Authorities have deployed forensic experts from Kyiv and war crimes investigators, National Police Chief Ihor Klymenko said.

Rescuers work at a site of a shopping mall hit by a Russian missile strike, in Kremenchuk, in Poltava region, Ukraine, June 27, 2022.
Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine via Reuters

A shopping mall hit by a Russian missile strike in Kremenchuk, in Poltava region, Ukraine, June 27, 2022.
Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine via Reuters

Rescuers work at a site of a shopping mall hit by a Russian missile strike, in Kremenchuk, in Poltava region, Ukraine, June 27, 2022.
Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine via Reuters

Jun 27, 2022, 3:46 PM EDT

Lysychansk hit by rocket artillery, 8 dead

Russians fired multiple rocket launchers on the city of Lysychansk in Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region, striking civilians who were collecting drinking water, according to Luhansk region governor Serhiy Haidai.

Eight have been killed and more than 20 are injured, Haidai said.

Jun 27, 2022, 11:55 AM EDT

3 killed in Kharkiv shelling

Three people were killed and at least 15 were wounded in shelling in Kharkiv, according to Natalia Popova, adviser to the head of the Kharkiv Regional Council.

Children were among the victims, Popova said.

Jun 26, 2022, 3:32 PM EDT

Ukrainian forces attack Russian controlled oil-drilling platform

A Russian controlled oil drilling platform in the Black Sea was targeted by Ukrainian shelling on Sunday, the second attack in a week, Russia's state-run media outlet TASS reported.

A spokesperson for Crimea's emergency services reported that no one was injured in the attack on the platform operated by the Chernomorneftegaz oil and gas company.

Russia-backed officials seized Chernomorneftegaz's oil-drilling platforms from Ukraine's national gas operator Naftogaz as part of Moscow's annexation of the Crimea peninsula in 2014, according to Reuters.

This is the second attack in a week on the same Chernomorneftegaz oil-drilling platform.

On June 20, Ukrainian forces shelled the platform in the Black Sea, injuring three of the 109 people on the drilling rig at the time, according to Crimea officials. Seven people remain missing, the officials said.

More than 90 people were evacuated from the platform after the previous attack and 15 people had stayed behind to guard operations, Sergey Aksyonov, the governor of Russian-controlled Crimea.

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