Six months have passed since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a conflict that has forced millions of Ukrainians to flee their homes, and left an estimated tens of thousands of Russian soldiers dead or injured.
The soldier is waving a flag.
Russian forces were able to take control of the Luhansk province after failing to take the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv.
The U.S. is expected to announce another $3 billion in aid to Ukraine on Wednesday, bringing the total aid to the country to more than 10 billion dollars.
Russia's economy shrunk 4% in the second quarter compared to the year before, after growing 3.5% in the first.
In response to the war in Russia, dozens of major companies have left the country.
The six-month mark comes at a time when the U.S. is concerned that Russia could ramp up attacks this week.
The Ukrainian troops are riding on tanks.
White House officials estimate that 80,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or injured during the war. A Ukrainian official said this week that the country has lost thousands of soldiers in the war. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, at least 5,587 people have been killed and 7,890 injured in the conflict in Ukraine. More than 10,000 people have been killed in Russian attacks. The UN Refugee Agency said that most civilian casualties have been caused by shelling.
There are people in a shelter who fled the war.
A minimum of 12 million. As of July, the UN says that many Ukrainians had left their homes. According to the UN Refugee Agency, there are over 6 million Ukrainians refugees in Europe. Most have moved to Russia and Poland. Over 6 million people have been internally displaced in Ukraine since the war began, according to the UN.
A teddy bear is on a tree in front of a building that was bombed.
According to the latest estimates from the Kyiv School of Economics, the war has caused $113 billion in damage to the country. Researchers estimated that the infrastructure damage would cost $200 billion to fix. The war has caused over 50 billion dollars in damage to 131,300 residential buildings.
Russia launched a series of missile attacks on Ukraine on February 24 in order to demilitarize the country. The U.S. and allies rushed to condemn the invasion of Ukraine and place sanctions on Russia in order to punish Putin. An increase in oil purchases from countries like China and Turkey have helped offset the effects of the sanctions on Russia. After failing to capture the capital, Russia shifted its attention to the east. The war has stopped after six months, according to experts. Tensions have flared in recent weeks after Ukrainian officials suggested that they were behind several blasts at military bases in Kremlin-occupied Crimea. The daughter of a Putin ally died in a car bombing last week and Russia blamed Ukraine.
There has been a conflict for a long time. The war is far from over, according to experts with the Atlantic Council, an international affairs think tank. The think tank concluded that the conflict appeared to be settled into a long, attritional battle that would test Ukrainian and Western resolve.
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