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Rescue efforts were still underway after two missiles hit a Ukrainian city on Tuesday, the latest attack of a yearslong war.
Tuesday’s Russian missile strike on a military academy and nearby hospital in eastern Ukraine, which killed more than 50 people, underscored the unrelenting dangers that Ukrainians have faced since Russia’s 2022 invasion.
Two ballistic missiles hit the city of Poltava and rescue efforts were still underway, the Ukrainian prosecutor general's office said.
At least 11,520 civilians have been killed in the war between February 2022 to July 2024, according to a United Nations report, which added that the actual tally may be even higher. The number of military troops killed is harder to pin down. U.S. officials said in August that nearly 500,000 soldiers had been killed or wounded on both sides, though they cautioned that Moscow likely undercounts its casualties, and Kyiv does not disclose official figures.
Here is a timeline of some of the war’s deadliest days.
2024
Jan. 21, 2024: Artillery shells hit a market in Russian-occupied Donetsk, killing at least 25 people, pro-Moscow officials said in blaming Ukraine for the strike. Ukraine denied responsibility.
Jan. 24, 2024: A Russian military plane crashed near the border with Ukraine, killing 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, Russian officials said. They accused Ukraine of striking the aircraft with missiles. Russia’s claims could not be independently verified.
July 8, 2024: A Russian missile destroyed Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital, in Kyiv, part of a barrage of bombings across the country that killed at least 38 people.
