Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
This animated map shows the daily progress of the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine from February 24th, 2022 through September 23rd, 2025.
For more information, please see our article at historyandheadlines.com/animated-map-of-the-2022-russian-invasion-of-ukraine
Author, Narrator, and Video Editor: Dr. Zar
Music: “Buccaneer’s March” and “Dance of the U-boat” by Aakash Gandhi and “Drums of Apocalypse” by The Mini Vandals from the YouTube Audio Library
The textual breakdown of the war into five phases is based on the timeline available at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine written by various Wikipedia contributors and which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
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To learn more about Ukrainian history, please see historyandheadlines.com/project-ukraine
The logo for the #ProjectUkraine collaboration was shared with myself (Dr. Zar) and the other participants in Project Ukraine by Kings and Generals (youtube.com/c/KingsandGenerals) for use in our videos and for promoting the project. It is therefore used here to that end. The image’s copyright is otherwise presumed to belong to Kings and Generals and so any other use of this image may require that channel’s permission.
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This animated map shows the daily progress of the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine from February 24th, 2022 through September 23rd, 2025.
For more information, please see our article at historyandheadlines.com/animated-map-of-the-2022-russian-invasion-of-ukraine
Author, Narrator, and Video Editor: Dr. Zar
Music: “Buccaneer’s March” and “Dance of the U-boat” by Aakash Gandhi and “Drums of Apocalypse” by The Mini Vandals from the YouTube Audio Library
The textual breakdown of the war into five phases is based on the timeline available at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine written by various Wikipedia contributors and which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
The image by Lencer available at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Ukraine_with_Cities.png is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
The image by Viewsridge available at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine.svg is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
The image by Edurs34 available at pixabay.com/illustrations/board-chalk-chalkboard-education-5585922 is licensed under the Pixabay License: pixabay.com/service/license
Images used in this video are believed to be (based on their file descriptions at the time of access by us) either in the public domain or available per a Creative Commons license or per “fair use”. No copyright infringement is intended. If you are the originator of any image used in this video and would like us to name you and/or include a link to the original source in this video’s description, we will gladly do so.
Please support this channel on Patreon at patreon.com/historyandheadlines
To learn more about Ukrainian history, please see historyandheadlines.com/project-ukraine
The logo for the #ProjectUkraine collaboration was shared with myself (Dr. Zar) and the other participants in Project Ukraine by Kings and Generals (youtube.com/c/KingsandGenerals) for use in our videos and for promoting the project. It is therefore used here to that end. The image’s copyright is otherwise presumed to belong to Kings and Generals and so any other use of this image may require that channel’s permission.
Thank you for watching this video!
