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Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian War

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Russo-Ukrainian War
Part of post-Soviet conflicts

Zones of control in Ukraine as of 9 July 2025
       Controlled by Ukraine
       Occupied by Russia

For a more detailed map, see the Russo-Ukrainian War detailed map
Date20 February 2014 – present
(11 years, 4 months, 2 weeks and 5 days)
LocationUkraine
Status Ongoing
Commanders and leaders
  •  Ukraine
  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy
  • Petro Poroshenko
  • Oleksandr Turchynov
  • Oleksii Reznikov
  • Valerii Zaluzhnyi
  •  Russia
  •  Belarus



Below is a topical outline of articles which are significantly or meaningfully related to the Russo-Ukrainian War; it is not an outline of articles which are generally related to Russia–Ukraine relations. The Related outlines section contains links to other outlines which are related to the Russo-Ukrainian War.[lower-alpha 1] This outline is a topical organization of articles; for a chronological organization, please see the Timelines section below.

Overview of articles[]

Top level overview articles[]

Major overview subdivisions

Timelines[]

Years in Russia[]

  • 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

Years in Ukraine[]

  • 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

Subjects[]

An alphabetical list of subjects related to the war. Articles related to a subject are listed alphabetically under the main subject.

Participants[]

Historical background[]

Prelude to the war[]

An chronological list of articles about the period immediately prelude to war; for earlier articles see the Historical background section.

Civil Defense[]

Communications and the media[]

  • Look for Your Own
  • Never Ever Can We Be Brothers
  • I Want to Live (hotline)

Media[]

Slogans, visual expressions, and symbols[]

Propaganda, sham elections, and disinformation[]

Main articles: Russian disinformation in the post-Soviet era and Propaganda in Russia

Crimea[]

Economics and food[]

Effects within Russia[]

Elections and referendums[]

  • 2014 Donbas general elections
  • 2014 Donbas status referendums
  • 2014 Ukrainian presidential election

Energy[]

  • Russia–Ukraine gas disputes
  • Nord Stream, Nord Stream 2
  • Russia in the European energy sector

Gender[]

Human rights, war crimes, genocide[]

Human rights[]

War crimes[]

Sexual violence[]

See also: Wartime sexual violence

Genocide[]

Dislocation of the Ukrainian population[]

The following section includes forced movement (e.g. ethnic cleansing) and crisis movement (e.g. war refugees/evacuees).

  • Russian filtration camps for Ukrainians
  • 2022 evacuation of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic
  • 2022–2023 Ukrainian refugee crisis
  • Mobilization in Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics

Prosecution of war criminals[]

  • Trial of Vadim Shishimarin
  • Trial of Alexander Bobikin and Alexander Ivanov

Other subjects[]

  • Russian usage of mobile crematoriums in Ukraine
  • 2014 Russian sabotage activities in Ukraine

Public opinion and national morale[]

  • Be Brave Like Ukraine
  • Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra
  • United24
  • United News (telethon)
  • Destroyed Russian military equipment exhibition

Nationalism[]

  • Pan-Slavism

Russian[]

  • Russian nationalism
  • Novorossiya
  • Russian irredentism
  • Russian world
  • Ruscism
  • Putinism
  • Russian imperialism
  • Russification

Ukrainian[]

  • Ukrainian nationalism
  • Far-right politics in Ukraine
  • Ukrainian irredentism
  • Ukrainization
  • History of Ukrainian nationality

Occupations[]

Overviews

Areas

Peace issues[]

Prisoners of war[]

Psychological[]

  • I Want to Live (hotline)
  • Never Ever Can We Be Brothers
  • Ukrainian recognition of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

Geography[]

Geographic overview[]

  • Geography of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine, Western Ukraine, Southern Ukraine, Northern Ukraine, Central Ukraine
  • Crimea, Snake Island (Ukraine), Black Sea, Kerch Peninsula, Sea of Azov, Kerch Strait
  • Administrative divisions of Ukraine, Historical regions in present-day Ukraine
  • Historical regions in present-day Ukraine

Oblasts[]

An oblast (/ˈɒblæst/; also UK /ˈɒblɑːst/; Cyrillic (most commonly): область, Bulgarian: област) is a type of administrative division within the Russian empire and Soviet Union that continues to be used in Russia and some post-Imperial/Soviet states.[1][2]

Template:Oblasts of Ukraine
Oblasts
  • Cherkasy
  • Chernihiv
  • Chernivtsi
  • Dnipropetrovsk
  • Donetsk
  • Ivano-Frankivsk
  • Kharkiv
  • Kherson
  • Khmelnytskyi
  • Kyiv
  • Kirovohrad
  • Luhansk
  • Lviv
  • Mykolaiv
  • Odesa
  • Poltava
  • Rivne
  • Sumy
  • Ternopil
  • Vinnytsia
  • Volyn
  • Zakarpattia
  • Zaporizhzhia
  • Zhytomyr
Autonomous republic Cities with special status
  • Autonomous Republic of Crimea

Urban centers[]

Territorial changes[]

An alphabetical outline of territorial changes during the war.

Areas under Russian occupation[]

Events[]

A chronological outline of events. Articles related to particular events are listed alphabetically under the main article for the event they are related to.

Protests and unrest[]

Military operations and activities[]

A chronological outline of military operations. Articles related to particular battles are listed alphabetically under the main article for the operation they are related to.

Chronological[]

When a event or topic covers more than one year the article appears in the year the event started.

2014[]

Overviews

Events

2015[]
2016[]
2017[]
2018[]
2021[]
2022[]
See also: List of military engagements during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Overviews

Events

2023[]

Geographic[]

Articles organized by geographic region

Eastern Ukraine[]

Overviews

Events

Western Ukraine[]
Northeastern Ukraine[]

Overviews

Events

Southern Ukraine[]

Overviews

Events

Central Ukraine[]

Overviews

Events

Crimea and the Black Sea[]
Outside Ukraine[]

Attacks on civilians[]

  • Attacks on civilians in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

Cyberwarfare[]

See also: Cyberwarfare

Movement of the population[]

  • 2022 evacuation of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic

Illegal annexations[]

  • Annexation referendums
  • Annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts

Diplomatic[]

  • 2023 visit by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the United Kingdom
  • 2022 visit by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the United States

Individuals[]

An alphabetical list of individuals significantly related to the war. Individuals are listed under their nationality, not political alignment.

Russian figures[]

Political (pro-Russian)[]

Military (Russian aligned or controlled)[]

Other (pro-Russian)[]

Ukrainian figures[]

Political (pro-Ukrainian)[]

  • Vadym Chernysh
  • Vitali Klitschko
  • Oksana Koliada
  • Petro Poroshenko
  • Oleksii Reznikov
  • Oleksandr Turchynov
  • Iryna Vereshchuk
  • Viktor Yanukovych
  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Military (Ukrainian aligned and controlled)[]

Journalists (pro-Ukrainian)[]

  • Serhii Korovayny

Other (Ukrainian aligned and controlled)[]

  • Under construction

Other individuals[]

Political (other)[]

Military (other)[]

  • Under construction

Private (other)[]

  • Under construction

Military units, equipment, and bases[]

An alphabetical list of military units involved in a significant way the war.

Russian military units[]

See also: Russian Armed Forces

Command and organization

Units

This section contains articles about major formations or units with significance to the war. For a complete list see List of Russian units which invaded the territory of Ukraine

Ukrainian military units[]

Command and organization

Units

Military equipment[]

Russian equipment
Ukrainian equipment
NATO equipment
  • Under construction
International equipment
  • Under construction

Military bases and facilities[]

In Russia
In Ukraine

Military exercises[]

  • Union Resolve 2022 (February 10-20, 2022)

Entities[]

Pro Russian organizations[]

Political (pro-Russian)[]

  • Antifascist Committee of Ukraine
  • Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic
  • Special Coordinating Council
  • Donetsk People's Republic
  • Donetsk Republic (political party)
  • Eurasian Youth Union
  • Internet Research Agency
  • Luhansk People's Republic
  • New Russia Party
  • Peace to Luhanshchina
  • Peoples National Party
  • Russian Imperial Movement
  • Russian National Socialist Party
  • Russian National Union
  • Salvation Committee for Peace and Order
  • Slavic Union
  • Ukrainian Choice
  • United Russia
  • We Are Together with Russia

Military (Russian controlled and aligned)[]

  • Separate Special Purpose Battalion (Chechen)

Other (pro-Russian)[]

  • Under construction

Pro Ukrainian organizations[]

Political (pro-Ukrainian)[]

Military (Ukrainian controlled and aligned)[]

Other (Ukrainian controlled and aligned)[]

Other organizations[]

Political (3rd parties)[]

Military (3rd parties)[]

  • Under construction

Other (3rd parties)[]

  • Under construction

International involvement[]

Overviews[]

  • United States-Ukraine relations
  • EU-Ukraine relations

International events[]

  • 2014 G20 Brisbane summit (15–16 November 2014)
  • 2014 Wales Summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (4–5 September 2014)
  • 40th G7 summit (4–5 June 2014)
  • Eleventh emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly (opened on 28 February 2022)
  • 2021 Russia–United States summit (16 June 2021)

Reactions[]

Sanctions[]

Investigations[]

Other international involvement[]

Military cooperation with the Russian Federation[]

See also: Foreign fighters in the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Zapad 2021
  • Union Resolve 2022

Military cooperation with Ukraine[]

See also: Foreign fighters in the Russo-Ukrainian War

Resolutions and statements[]

Items are listed chronologically within individual sections.

International organizations

Belarus

  • Under construction

European Union

  • Under construction

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

  • Under construction

Russia

Ukraine

  • Ukrainian recognition of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (14 July 2022)

United States

Other

  • 2022 open letter from Nobel laureates in support of Ukraine(1st March 2022)

Books and publications[]

Books
Academic journals
  • Under construction
Other
  • Ami, it's time to go
Bibliographies
  • Under construction

Lists[]

Other topics[]

Related outlines[]

See also[]

  • Bibliography of Ukrainian history
  • Bibliography of Russian history (1991-present)

Notes[]

  1. ↑ Each topic or section is ordered alphabetically or chronologically as noted. Where dates or years for events are indicated, it is the beginning of the event as it is reported in the article.
  2. ↑ Russian occupied airport in Crimea used as a military airbase.

References[]

  1. ↑ "Oblast definition and meaning". https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/oblast. 
  2. ↑ "What Is An Oblast?". 2017. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-an-oblast.html. 
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