Ukraine in maps: Tracking the war with Russia

Ukraine in maps: Tracking the war with Russia

Subject :International Relations

Section: Mapping

Context:

• Russia has been targeting Ukraine’s port and grain infrastructure as the Ukrainian counter-offensive to retake territory from Russia’s occupying forces continues.

Details:

• A key bridge linking Russia to Crimea was damaged.
• Ukraine’s counter-offensive is continuing with advances around the city of Bakhmut, as well as slow progress in the eastern Donetsk and south-eastern Zaporizhzhia regions.
• Russia has pulled out of a deal that ensured safe passage for grain shipments crossing the Black Sea.

About Black Sea Grain Initiative:

• It was set up to resume vital food and fertilizer exports from Ukraine to the rest of the world.
• It was brokered between Russia and Ukraine by the United Nations and Turkey.
• The Initiative allowed exports of grain, other foodstuffs, and fertilizer, including ammonia, to resume through a safe maritime humanitarian corridor from three key Ukrainian ports: Chornomorsk, Odesa, and Yuzhny/Pivdennyi, to the rest of the world.

• Russia’s decision to end the grain deal came after the Kerch Bridge, which allows travel between Russia and Crimea – Ukrainian territory annexed by Russia in 2014 – was damaged.