The largest number of missiles flew from Belarus and attacked Ukraine at the first stage of a full-scale war - in March, when the Russians managed to occupy part of the Ukrainian North, where they entered right from the territory of Belarus after the "Allied Resolve" exercise.

At the same time, a number of Ukrainian officials, including in the President's Office, did not believe in such a possibility, and, as military experts testified, they did not prepare a reaction to such a scenario.

On February 24, Chernihiv region and southwestern Ukraine were bombed

On the very first day of the war, on February 24, the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (USU) said that missile attacks on the territory of Ukraine are taking place from Belarus.

"Four ballistic missiles were fired from the territory of the Republic of Belarus in a south-western direction," said the message of the Commander-in-Chief of the

Ukrainian Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny

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On February 27, Volyn was shelled

On February 27, rockets were fired at a military unit near the city of Vladimir (located west of Lutsk, 15 km from the Polish border) from Belarusian territory. On March 3, a representative of the Pentagon confirmed that the rocket fire in Ukraine was also conducted from Belarusian territory.

On March 3, there were 70 rocket launches from Belarus

On the 10th day of the war, the American military department counted about 70 rocket launches from Belarus on the territory of Ukraine.

The peak of rocket launches was on March 9

On May 4, the "Belarusian Gayun" telegram channel reported that the first peak of launches was recorded on March 9, and at least 35 rocket launches were made that day.

"Until the beginning of April, the launches were increasing day by day, and Ukraine experienced the largest bombardment from Belarus on April 1, on that day rockets were launched literally every 10 minutes, in total at least 56 warheads, which covered the retreat of the Russian Armed Forces from the territory of Ukraine".

On March 10, aircraft bombs from Belarus killed 2 Belarusians

In March, two Belarusian truck drivers were killed after shelling in the city of Koroscien, Times.zt reported its version of events.

It claimed that the Russian planes that bombed Korosten took off from the Belarusian airfield - presumably in Baranavichy.

The Su-25SM pilot completed his task, but did not return to Baranavichy.

The plane was shot down by the Ukrainian military.

Later, giving an interview to the France-Presse agency, Lukashenka said that "a group of 20,000 Russian troops" entered Ukraine from Belarus.

By supporting the Russians, Lukashenko grossly violated his own military doctrine.

On March 27, they destroyed an oil depot in Lutsk

On March 27, the head of the Volyn regional state administration

Yurii Pagulyaika

said that the cruise missile that hit the oil depot in Lutsk on March 27 came from Belarus.

The Ukrainian side then claimed that the missile did not cause serious damage or casualties.

On March 29, they attacked Lviv

On March 29, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced the shooting down of 2 Russian X-type missiles launched from fighter jets at Lviv from Belarus late in the evening of March 28.

But anti-aircraft missile forces of Ukraine eliminated the threat 30 km away from the city.

Pause in April and May

There were few launches in April and May, but they did happen.

At that time, Ukrainian and Belarusian military experts discussed the likelihood of the Belarusian army joining the war, analyzed the maneuvers of the military and the deployment of equipment to the border with Ukraine.

On April 8, Svaboda wrote in detail why Russia lies, stating that it does not use Tochka-U missiles, after which more than 40 people were killed at the station in Kramatorsk: such missiles were used in joint Belarusian-Russian exercises.

However, it is not known where the shelling of the Kramatorsk railway station came from.

Nuclear threat on April 16

On April 16, rockets were fired from the territory of Belarus in the direction of the South Ukrainian nuclear power plant in the Mykolaiv region.

The flight of the rockets was recorded by the station's surveillance cameras, and Ukraine's "Energaatom" called the firing "another act of Russian nuclear terrorism."

The company said that the threat of missiles hitting the nuclear reactor with possible consequences — a nuclear disaster — "was high."

In May, it became known that the Russians had deployed the Iskander-M missile complex in the Brest region, in particular in the Luninets region.

More than 1,200 sorties and 61 Iskander launches

On June 12, the representative of the General Staff of Ukraine

, Oleksiy Gromov

, gave the statistics of "arrivals":

"There were 1,211 aircraft sorties from the territory of Belarus - more than 20% of the total number - and 61 launches of Iskander-type cruise missiles aimed at hitting critical infrastructure facilities in Ukraine."

On June 9, Zhytomyr region was attacked

In the first three weeks of June, nothing was known about the launch of missiles from Belarusian territory on Ukrainian cities.

But the planes took off.

On the night of June 9, 3 Russian planes took off from Belarus to shell Zhytomyr region: "1:15 am, Zhytomyr region, missile strike, cruise missile X59.

Two planes were attached from the Mazyr district of the Gomel region and the "Baranovichi" airfield.

Two Su-34 aircraft and one Su-30."

But the Ukrainian side did not report on the consequences of those sorties.

On June 25, Chernihiv region was targeted

On June 25 and 26, as reported by Ukrainian sources, 20 rockets were fired from the territory of Belarus in the Chernihiv region, from where 20 rockets arrived from the ground and from airplanes, as well as in the Zhytomyr region.

As Zhytomyr Mayor

Siarhei

Sukhamlin said , the region was bombed by planes that took off from the territory of Belarus.

By July 15, 689 rockets were launched from Belarus

On July 15, the Ukrainian project UA War Inforgaphics reported at least 689 missiles launched from the territory of Belarus.

The same statistics were then given by some Ukrainian media.

A large-scale attack on July 28 in Kyiv region and Chernihiv region

The next large-scale shelling took place in the morning of July 28.

For security reasons, the Ukrainian authorities have not yet named the objects hit by Russian missiles from Belarus.

It is known that this is the Honcharov community in the Chernihiv region, as well as the Vyshgorodsky and Buchansky districts in the Kyiv region.

In the Vyshgorod region, rockets were fired at an infrastructure facility.

But the authorities have not specified it yet.

It is also known that several missiles launched from Belarus were shot down by air defense forces near Kiev.

Previously, no one was injured in the Kyiv region.

In addition, during more than 150 days of full-scale war, various sources, including Ukrainian telegram channels, disseminated other information about the shelling of Ukrainian territory by the Belarusian side, but some information was not confirmed, or the shelling was conducted by the Russians from other positions.

Russia's war against Ukraine

  • At 5 o'clock in the morning on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a military operation against Ukraine in the Donbass at the request of the "DPR" and "LPR" groups.

    On February 21, during a televised address to Russians, Putin called the so-called "DPR" and "LPR" independent states within the regions.

    On February 22, the Council of the Federation ratified this decision.

  • All days of the war, Ukrainian cities were bombarded with rockets, aircraft flew over them.

    Russian troops are attacking, including from the territory of Belarus, using airfields, bases and roads.

    Representatives of the Lukashenka regime justify the war, the opposition considers the territory of Belarus to be occupied and calls for resistance to the Russian invaders.

  • On February 27, the International Territorial Defense Legion was created in Ukraine, and foreign volunteers were invited to join it.

    Belarusians also entered there.

    During the three and a half months of war, six Belarusian volunteers and soldiers of the USU died at the front: Alyaksei "Tur" Skoblya, Ilya "Litvin" Hrenau, Zmytser "Terror" Apanasovich, Zmytser "Hans" Rubashevsky, Konstantin "Phoenix" Dubail, Pavel "Volat" , Ivan "Brest" Marchuk.

    In the battle where Marchuk was killed, another six Belarusian fighters disappeared without a trace.

  • On June 17, the fighters of the Kalinovsky regiment received the state Ukrainian awards "For combat merits" and "Ukraine above all".

  • On March 30, the UN approved the composition of an independent commission that will investigate Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

    It included people who worked in the analysis of the genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

  • Contrary to Putin's statements about attacks only on military facilities, the Russians are bombing schools, kindergartens and residential areas of Ukrainian cities.

    The Russians are using banned weapons, including cluster bombs, against civilians.

  • On April 1, Lithuania became the first country in the European Union to completely abandon Russian gas.

    Latvia and Estonia followed her example.

    Germany has promised to completely stop using Russian oil by the end of 2022.

  • On April 2, after the liberation of the town of Bucha near Kyiv, photojournalists published dozens of photographs showing hundreds of dead people, victims of mass murders committed by Russian troops.

    Many are buried in spontaneous mass graves.

    The Russian occupation also brought great destruction to the people of Barodyan.

    It is also known about a number of rapes, including babies.

  • In April, missile attacks on Ukraine and airstrikes from the territory of Belarus decreased, Russian troops began to leave Belarus.

  • On May 9, the US President signed the Land Leasing Law.

    This law restores the program from the Second World War, which will speed up the supply of weapons to Ukraine and increase the amount of such assistance.

  • On the night of May 17, the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Anna Malyar, confirmed the beginning of the operation to rescue the Ukrainian soldiers, who were trapped in the territory of "Azovstal".

    According to her, 53 seriously wounded were evacuated from there to the medical facility of occupied Novoazovsk.

    Another 211 people were brought to Alenivka through the humanitarian corridor.

    The Ministry of Defense of Russia states that almost 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers at the plant "surrendered" as of May 18.

    The International Red Cross officially registered these fighters as prisoners of war.

  • Since its inception, thousands of volunteers from 55 countries have joined the Foreign Legion, including Canada, the Baltic States, Poland, Australia, the Netherlands, the USA, the Czech Republic, Finland and other countries.

    Several foreigners who fought for Ukraine were captured and died.

  • In June, the so-called "DPR" sentenced two volunteers from Great Britain and one from Morocco to death.

  • Since the beginning of the war, 34 journalists have died.

    Some did not perform professional functions, but were mobilized into the Ukrainian army.

  • On June 25, Ukrainian troops retreated from the city of Severodanetsk to fortified positions.

    The city was captured by the Russian military.

  • Independent verification of information about military actions provided by officials of various parties is still impossible.