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UKRAINE IN MAPS: TRACKING THE WAR WITH RUSSIA

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By The Visual Journalism Team
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Ukraine has been widening the breach in Russia's defences in the southern
Zaporizhzhia region as its counter-offensive continues to make slow progress
against Moscow's forces.

Here are the latest developments:

 * Ukraine has brought heavy equipment beyond Russia's first line of defences in
   the Zaporizhzhia region for the first time, analysts say
 * It has also made advances around Bakhmut after Russia moved some of its most
   experienced troops from the city to the Zaporizhzhia region
 * Meanwhile, Russia has maintained drone attacks on Ukraine's River Danube
   ports, damaging the country's grain export infrastructure




UKRAINE'S ARMOURED VEHICLES ADVANCE

Ukrainian forces have been widening their breach of Russian defensive lines near
the village of Robotyne for several weeks and analysts say they may be preparing
for a new push.

The tiny village, some 56km (35 miles) south-east of the city of Zaporizhzhia,
has been a focal point since Ukraine's counter-offensive began at the start of
June.

Progress has been slow but analysts at the US-based Institute for the Study of
War (ISW) say they have confirmed that Ukrainian forces are operating armoured
vehicles beyond the Russian anti-tank ditch and dragon's teeth obstacles in the
area for the first time - just to the west of nearby Verbove.



War in maps: Ukraine widening Russia defences breach

The ISW describes this as an "important sign of progress" but adds it is not
prepared to say that Ukraine has broken through as its forces have not breached
the last visible defensive positions.

BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner says this is the most strategically
important part of the Ukrainian counter-offensive and, if it is successful,
could cut off Russia's supply lines that connect the Russian city of
Rostov-on-Don to Crimea.

Doing so would make it all but impossible for Russia to maintain its huge
garrison in Crimea, which it annexed in 2014, he adds.

 * Has Ukraine broken through the dragon's teeth?

However, the advance so far has been restricted to the area around Robotyne and
Ukrainian forces have a long way to go if they are to achieve this aim by
reaching the Sea of Azov.




THE BATTLE FOR BAKHMUT

As Ukraine has been trying to widen the breach near Robotyne, Russia has been
bringing reinforcements into the region - including some of its best trained
soldiers that had previously been deployed elsewhere.

The UK Ministry of Defence says the redeployments of Russia's paratroop
formations, known as the VDV, have probably weakened its defences around the
city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, which has endured some of the heaviest
fighting of the war.

It has been under Russian control for several months but Ukraine has gained some
ground in the surrounding areas and the MoD says Ukraine has now secured the
villages of Klishchiivka and Andriivka, about 8km (five miles) south of the
city.




ATTACKS ON CRIMEA

Ukraine has also stepped up attacks on the Crimean peninsula in the past month -
including a missile attack on the port of Sevastopol on 22 September which it
says killed Russian 34 officers.

It initially claimed they included the commander of Russia's Black Sea Fleet,
but Moscow later released a video of Viktor Sokolov, which it said was filmed
several days later.

That attack came just over a week after a major attack on the same city, which
is the headquarters of the fleet, using cruise missiles supplied by the UK and
France that is thought to have destroyed a ship and a submarine.

It also caused significant damage to the dry docks, which are vital for
maintenance of the entire Black Sea fleet.

The next day Ukraine said it had succeeded in destroying a sophisticated Russian
air defence system - the S-400 - on the peninsular.

Attacks in late August destroyed another S-400 and others knocked out Russian
radar positions on offshore gas platforms.



Russia's Black Sea fleet is an important target for Kyiv - it is seen as the
flagship unit of Russia's navy and its ships have launched missiles at Ukraine
causing devastating damage.

It has also been threatening to block the Black Sea shipping routes that Ukraine
has been using to export grain - which is a particular sticking point for Kyiv
currently.



Moscow pulled out of the internationally brokered Black Sea Grain Initiative in
mid-July - guaranteeing safe passage of non-military vessels - arguing that
Russia's own agricultural exporters were being disadvantaged.

 * Is Ukraine trying to retake Crimea?

Since Russia pulled out, only a handful of vessels, have been able to sail from
Ukraine's Black Sea ports such as Odesa, with the first large grain shipment
leaving Chornomorsk, just south of Odesa, this week and reaching Turkey on
Friday.


DRONE ATTACKS ON DANUBE PORTS

The UK's Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) says 65% of
Ukraine's grain exports are now going from the ports of Izmail and Reni, on the
Danube. The grain is then transported by river and canals into the Black Sea,
via the Romanian seaports of Sulina and Constanta.

In theory it is safer to go this way, as vessels entering the Black Sea from the
mouth of the river immediately enter Romanian territorial waters.



But Russia has also been attacking Ukraine's Danube ports using drones.

Since the River Danube forms part of Ukraine's border with Nato, Russia's
attacks have an added geopolitical dimension - at least one Russian drone has
been filmed exploding across the river from Izmail, inside Romania.

 * Russian drones threaten Ukraine's economic lifeline


MORE THAN A YEAR OF FIGHTING

Russia's invasion began with dozens of missile strikes on cities all over
Ukraine before dawn on 24 February 2022.

Russian ground troops moved in quickly and within a few weeks were in control of
large areas of Ukraine and had advanced to the suburbs of Kyiv.

Russian forces were bombarding Kharkiv, and they had taken territory in the east
and south as far as Kherson, and surrounded the port city of Mariupol.



But they hit very strong Ukrainian resistance almost everywhere and faced
serious logistical problems with poorly motivated Russian troops suffering
shortages of food, water and ammunition.

Ukrainian forces were also quick to deploy Western supplied arms such as the
Nlaw anti-tank system, which proved highly effective against the Russian
advance.

By October the picture had changed dramatically and having failed to take Kyiv,
Russia withdrew completely from the north.

More than a year since the invasion, Ukraine is now hoping its latest
counter-offensive can turn the war in its favour.

By David Brown, Bella Hurrell, Dominic Bailey, Mike Hills, Lucy Rodgers, Paul
Sargeant, Alison Trowsdale, Tural Ahmedzade, Chris Clayton, Kady Wardell, Mark
Bryson, Zoe Bartholomew, Sean Willmott, Sana Dionysiou, Joy Roxas, Gerry
Fletcher, Jana Tauschinsk, Debie Loizou, Simon Martin and Prina Shah.




ABOUT THESE MAPS

To indicate which parts of Ukraine are under control by Russian troops we are
using daily assessments published by the Institute for the Study of War with the
American Enterprise Institute's Critical Threats Project. To show key areas
where advances are taking place we are also using updates from the UK Ministry
of Defence and BBC research.

The situation in Ukraine is often fast moving and it is likely there will be
times when there have been changes not reflected in the maps.


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