Part of the southern campaign of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
A map showing the Kherson/Mykolaiv frontline
Date
29 August – 11 November 2022 (2 months, 1 week and 6 days)
Location
Southern Ukraine (Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts)
Result
Ukrainian victory[3][4][5][6]
Belligerents
Ukraine
Russia
Donetsk PR[1][2]
Luhansk PR[2]
Commanders and leaders
Andriy Kovalchuk[7] Roman Kostenko[8]
Vladimir Putin[9]
Units involved
Ukrainian Armed Forces
"Kakhovka" operational group[10]
1st Special Operations Brigade[11]
17th Tank Brigade[12]
35th Marine Brigade[12][13]
42nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade[11]
54th Motorized Brigade[11]
60th Infantry Brigade[12]
128th Mountain Assault Brigade[12]
103rd Territorial Defense Brigade[11]
129th Territorial Defense Brigade[14]
Ukrainian Volunteer Army[15]
Ukrainian partisans[16] Separate Special Purpose Battalion[17]
Russian Armed Forces
49th Combined Arms Army[12]
76th Guards Air Assault Division[18]
83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade[11]
126th Coastal Defence Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet[19]
DPR People's Militia
109th Regiment[1]
LPR People's Militia[1]
Strength
20,000 (start of the offensive)[20]
20,000–25,000[21] 40,000 (October, per Ukraine)[22]
Casualties and losses
Per Russia: 9,500 killed and wounded[23]
Per Russia: 1,200–1,360 killed and wounded[23] Per Ukraine: 2,500 killed, 5,000 wounded (29 Aug.–29 Sept.)[24]
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Russian invasion of Ukraine
Northern Ukraine campaign
Antonov Airport
Chernobyl
Hostomel
Ivankiv
Kyiv
Kyiv strikes
shopping centre bombing
Russian Kyiv convoy
Bucha
massacre
Irpin
refugee column shelling
Makariv
Moshchun
Brovary
Slavutych
Borodianka
Hlukhiv
Konotop
Sumy
ammonia leak
Trostianets
Chernihiv
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3 March 2022 bombing
16 March 2022 breadline attack
August 2023 missile strike
April 2024 missile strike
Okhtyrka
Lebedyn
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Desna
Eastern Ukraine campaign
Marinka
Avdiivka
Mariupol
hospital airstrike
theatre airstrike
art school bombing
Kharkiv
Kharkiv strikes
February cluster bombing
government building airstrike
March cluster bombing
April cluster bombing
dormitories missile strike
Chuhuiv Air Base
Volnovakha
massacre
Izium
massacre
Stara Krasnianka
Donetsk
March 2022 attack
June 2022 attack
September 2022 attack
2024 attack
Rubizhne
Popasna
Kramatorsk
railway station attack
restaurant attack
Battle of Donbas
Kreminna
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school bombing
Sievierodonetsk
Toshkivka
1st Lyman
Sviatohirsk
Lysychansk
2024 missile strike
Chasiv Yar strike
Pisky
Olenivka massacre
Bakhmut
Soledar
Vuhledar
Makiivka
Kharkiv counteroffensive
Balakliia
Kupiansk
civilian convoy shelling
2nd Lyman
Luhansk Oblast campaign
Lyman cluster bombing
Kostiantynivka
Hroza
Chasiv Yar
Krasnohorivka
Southern Ukraine campaign
Kherson
Kherson strikes
Melitopol
Mykolaiv
bombing
7 March 2022 military quarters attack
cluster bombing
18 March 2022 military quarters attack
government building airstrike
Chornobaivka
Enerhodar
Zaporizhzhia NPP
1st and 2nd Voznesensk
Huliaipole
Orikhiv
Davydiv Brid
Crimea
Novofedorivka
1st Crimean Bridge
1st Sevastopol Naval Base
2nd Crimean Bridge
2nd Sevastopol Naval Base
Kherson counteroffensive
Prelude
Nova Kakhovka
Liberation of Kherson
Dnieper
Kakhovka Dam
2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
Zarichne
Other regions
Zaporizhzhia
civilian convoy attack
residential building airstrike
Ivano-Frankivsk
Kryvyi Rih
Lviv
Odesa
6 March 2024 strike
Zhytomyr
Rivne
Vinnytsia
Dnipro
2023 residential building airstrike
Yavoriv
Khmelnytskyi
Kremenchuk
Serhiivka
Chaplyne
Strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
Sloviansk
Uman
Pokrovsk
2023 missile strike
2024 missile strike
29 December 2023 strikes
22 March 2024 strikes
Naval operations
Snake Island
Berdiansk
Moskva
Tendra Spit
Spillover and cross-border incidents
Western Russia
Millerovo
Dyagilevo and Engels air bases
Bryansk Oblast
Belgorod Oblast incursion
30 December 2023 Belgorod shelling
February 2024 Belgorod missile strike
2024 western Russia incursion
Moscow
Kremlin drone attack
May 2023 drone strikes
Transnistria
Poland
Przewodów
Belarus
Machulishchy
Resistance
Ukrainian resistance
Belarusian–Russian anti-war resistance
rail war in Belarus
rail war in Russia
Russian commissariat attacks
Ust-Ilimsk shooting
St. Petersburg cafe bombing
General topics
War crimes
Economic impact
Peace negotiations
Collaboration with Russia
Russian emigration
Attacks on civilians
Nuclear risk
Humanitarian impacts
Russian annexation
Treatment of prisoners of war
Timeline
24 Feb – 7 Apr 2022
8 Apr – 28 Aug 2022
29 Aug – 11 Nov 2022
12 Nov 2022 – 7 Jun 2023
8 Jun 2023 – 31 Aug 2023
1 Sep – 30 Nov 2023
1 Dec 2023 – present
Related
Zagreb Tu-141 crash
Russian mystery fires
Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
Soloti training ground shooting
2022 Russian mobilization
2022 Russian martial law
2022 protests in Russian-occupied Ukraine
2022 Russian Far East protests
Zeitenwende speech
Lady R incident
Brovary helicopter crash
Black Sea drone incident
Belgorod accidental bombing
Wagner Group rebellion
Wagner Group plane crash
Synytsia
Korochansky Ilyushin Il-76 crash
Skadovsk polling center bombing
June 2024 Ukraine peace conference
A military counteroffensive was launched by Ukraine on 29 August 2022 to expel Russian forces occupying the southern regions of Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts.
Military analysts consider the counteroffensive to be the third strategic phase of the war in Ukraine, along with the concurrent eastern counteroffensive, after the initial invasion and the battle of Donbas.[25]
After many strikes against Russian military targets, Ukraine announced the start of a full-scale counteroffensive on 29 August 2022.[26] On 9 October, Ukraine said it recaptured 1,170 square kilometers of land.[27] On 9 November, Russian troops were ordered to withdraw from Kherson, the only regional capital captured since the start of the invasion.[28] Ukrainian forces liberated the city of Kherson two days later, on 11 November.[29]
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