HISTORY

deliveries – 21 decommissioned Mig-29 fighters

for the spare parts and 14 Su-25 combat aircraft.

The deliveries were made through the mediating

parties.

June 2022

In their advance in Donbas the Russians took

advantage especially of their overwhelmingly

superior artillery. Therefore, the Ukrainians started

to receive the new 155 mm howitzers from the Allies

and above all HIMARS rocket launchers which are

crucial for destroying the Russian ammunition

dumpsters, bridges and command posts. In June the

Czech Mi-24 and Slovak Mi-17 helicopters arrived

in Ukraine. In the end of the month, after another

series of successful Ukrainian attacks, the Russian

troops had to flee from the Snake Island. On the

other side, after a long-lasting effort the Russians

managed to capture the city of Severodonetsk in

the Luhansk area.

July 2022

The front line practically stalled. In the beginning

of month, the Russians captured Lysychansk but

did not advance any further. The fiercest battles

were fought for the town of Bakhmut and have been

going on until the present time. The Ukrainians

started to successfully deploy HIMARS rocket

launchers to destroy the Russian ammunition and

fuel dumpsters. The Russians retaliated by bombing

the civilian targets.

The memorial with the MiG-17 aircraft in Bachmut underwent

renovation shortly before the war.

A Ukrainian soldier takes a picture in

front of the memorial in Bachmut during

the fighting.

August 2022

The Ukrainians received the anti-radar HARM

missiles a started to use them successfully to

blind the Russian AA defense. During this month

the large-scale attacks were launched against

the Russian military airports on the occupied

Crimea. On August 29 the long-awaited Ukrainian

counterattack was launched in the Kherson area.

September 2022

While the Russians focused on the defense of

the Kherson area the Ukrainian troops launched

a surprise attack on the other side of the front

line. In a couple of days, they liberated Balakliya,

Kupyansk and Izyum and by the end of the month

Lyman and practically the whole Kharkov area.

Putin reacted by declaring partial mobilization even

though only in March he promised that there would

not be any. The hastily organized referendums about

the annexation to Russia took place on the occupied

territories. The Russians started to use the Iranian

kamikaze drones to bomb the Ukrainian cities.

Belarusian volunteers from the Kastuś Kalinoŭski regiment in Bachmut.

October 2022

The counterattack towards Kherson continued.

On October 6, in the vee hours, the explosion took

place on the Kerch bridge connecting the occupied

Crimea with Russia, one road lane was destroyed,

and the railway section was seriously damaged. On

October 29 in Sevastopol the attack of the remotecontrolled boats against the Russian warships

at anchor took place. The Russians launched the

bombing campaign against the Ukrainian energy

infrastructure.

The MiG-17 at the memorial was eventually destroyed like most of the town of Bakhmut.

April 2023

INFO Eduard

31