Open
27 OctGeneral Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's General Staff put Russian personnel losses since 24 February 2022 at 1,581,840. Ukrainian outlets describe the daily figure as killed and wounded together.
What each side said.
178 statements, each attributed to who said it and to whom, and never counted as an event. Where one makes a claim that evidence can settle, it carries the verdict from the claims ledger.
Government of Bulgaria Government of Denmark Government of France Government of Hungary Government of Kazakhstan Government of Poland, including the Polish Armed Forces Government of Romania Government of Russia Government of South Korea Government of the United Kingdom Government of the United States Government of Ukraine NATO United Nations Wagner Group
October 2026
Said
15 OctGovernment of Ukraine: Zelensky said on 15 October that Ukraine's three-day pause in strikes on Russian refineries, held to accommodate Trump's announced energy ceasefire, was over, telling reporters "We're done", the Kyiv Independent reported. Trump said the refinery strikes were driving up world fuel prices. Moscow airports were then repeatedly closed as Ukrainian drone attacks resumed.
September 2026
Open
23 SepGovernment of Ukraine: At the UN General Assembly, Zelensky said Putin is the only driving force of the war, that nearly 249,000 Russian troops were reportedly killed or seriously wounded in the first eight months of 2026, and called for stronger sanctions and joint air defence. He also announced the handover of two captured North Korean soldiers to South Korea.
Said
23 SepGovernment of Ukraine: Speaking at the UN General Assembly general debate, President Zelensky said the Russian army lost 248,964 people from January through August 2026, describing them as dead and severely wounded.
Said
1 SepGovernment of Ukraine: Zelensky said Russian airspace was becoming completely dangerous because of Ukrainian drones and would be de facto closed, urging airlines, insurers and ambassadors to factor in the risk to flights to Moscow, St Petersburg and other hubs, while saying Ukraine does not threaten civil aviation. He said Ukraine would clear Russian skies for set periods when partners asked, as for CIA Director John Ratcliffe's 25 August trip to Moscow.
August 2026
Said
30 AugMinistry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry said it was preparing massive strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure in retaliation for Ukrainian drone attacks on the Wildberries and Ozon retailers and on Russia's oil and gas sector, AP reported. The UN monitoring mission later cited the announcement as the start of an intensified campaign against Ukrainian energy facilities.
Said
12 AugGovernment of Russia: Overseeing Pacific Fleet drills, President Putin said that if European states began seizing Russian merchant vessels and selling their cargo, Russia would be forced to respond in kind, Reuters reported. European states had boarded and detained shadow fleet tankers under expanded sanctions.
July 2026
Open
31 JulGovernment of Ukraine: President Zelensky said about 700,000 Russian soldiers had been killed, within about 1.6 million Russian casualties, in an interview with Fox News.
Said
31 JulGovernment of Ukraine: In an interview with Fox News, President Zelensky said Ukraine had about 50,000 soldiers killed and about 400,000 wounded, and claimed Russia had about 1.6 million losses including around 700,000 dead. Ukrainska Pravda noted he had given a figure of 55,000 killed in February 2026.
June 2026
Said
29 JunUnited Nations: HRMMU head Danielle Bell said the mission's findings highlighted deeply worrying trends, including energy attacks, rising civilian casualties and torture of prisoners, and that people would face the same challenges next winter, even more so if attacks resumed.
Open
18 JunGovernment of Ukraine: Zelensky called the strike on the Moscow Oil Refinery an entirely justified response to Russian strikes, saying 'If Ukraine burns, so will Moscow'.
Said
9 JunGovernment of Bulgaria: Bulgarian Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov said it was time to sit at the negotiating table and seek a just peace determined by both sides, arguing more arms would cost lives without changing a positional war.
Open
7 JunGovernment of Ukraine: Zelensky called the drone strike on the Chornobyl spent fuel storage site an exceptionally cowardly Russian attack carried out with a Shahed-type drone and said radiation safety limits were not exceeded.
Said
3 JunGovernment of Russia: After Ukrainian strikes on St Petersburg during the economic forum, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia's response would be systematic.
May 2026
Open
29 MayGovernment of Romania: Romanian President Nicusor Dan called the drone strike on a Galati apartment block the most serious event affecting Romanian territory since 2022 and said Romania would order proportionate measures against Russia.
Open
Said
14 MayMinistry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry described the 14 May attack on Kyiv as a massive retaliatory strike in response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian civilian objects.
Said
8 MayGovernment of Ukraine: Zelensky said Ukraine agreed to the three-day ceasefire partly to free prisoners, writing that Red Square mattered less than the lives of Ukrainian prisoners of war, and decreed the Victory Day parade off-limits to Ukrainian strikes.
Said
8 MayGovernment of the United States: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said US mediation had not yet produced a fruitful outcome and had stagnated, but that the US stood ready if circumstances changed.
April 2026
Open
16 AprUnited Nations: UN Humanitarian Coordinator Matthias Schmale condemned the overnight Russian attack on Dnipro, Kyiv and Odesa, saying the world should not be forced to count the civilian toll every day and that the cycle of violence must stop.
Said
16 AprGovernment of Ukraine: Zelensky urged partners to fulfil every promise of aid on time, having said earlier in April that the shortage of air defence missiles could not be any worse.
Said
9 AprGovernment of Russia: Announcing the Easter pause, the Kremlin said it expected Ukraine to follow the example of the Russian Federation; it did not mention Zelensky's earlier proposal.
Said
3 AprGovernment of Russia: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow wanted a lasting peace settlement rather than a temporary truce, in response to Ukraine's Easter ceasefire proposal.
March 2026
Said
22 MarGovernment of Ukraine: After the Miami talks, Zelensky said signals suggested prisoner exchanges could continue and stressed that the aggressor should not be rewarded.
Open
20 MarUnited Nations: UN Humanitarian Coordinator a.i. Richard Ragan condemned a first-person-view drone strike on an evacuation van of the Ukrainian NGO Proliska in Oleksiievo-Druzhkivka, Donetsk Oblast, which killed two women and injured two evacuees, citing Russian forces' increasing and illegal use of such drones against civilians and aid workers.
Open
15 MarGovernment of Romania: Romanian Foreign Minister Oana Toiu said Bucharest would help Moldova with the Dniester pollution and that Russia had full responsibility.
February 2026
Open
20 FebMinistry of Defence of Russia: Sergei Rudskoy, first deputy chief of Russia's General Staff, told the defence ministry newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda that Ukrainian forces' losses since the start of the operation exceeded 1.5 million people, including more than 520,000 in 2025.
Said
18 FebGovernment of Russia: Russia's chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky called the Geneva talks difficult but businesslike and said the next meeting would take place soon.
Said
16 FebGovernment of the United States: President Trump said Ukraine had better come to the table fast, after telling Zelensky on 13 February that he was going to have to get moving.
Open
14 FebGovernment of Ukraine: At the Munich Security Conference, Zelensky said territorial concessions would not bring peace, comparing them to the 1938 Munich Agreement. He said the US had offered a 15-year security guarantee while Kyiv wanted at least 20 years, and that Ukraine could hold elections after a ceasefire.
Said
4 FebGovernment of Russia: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the door to a peaceful settlement remained open but Russia would continue the war until Ukraine adopted the relevant decisions.
Said
3 FebNATO: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, visiting Kyiv, said direct talks were important progress but Russia's overnight attack did not show Moscow was serious about peace. He said some European allies planned to deploy troops after a deal with a US backstop, and urged allies to send air defence quickly.
January 2026
Partly supported
29 JanGovernment of the United States: President Trump said he had personally asked Putin not to fire on Kyiv and other cities for a week because of extreme cold, and that Putin agreed.
Open
23 JanGovernment of Ukraine: President Zelensky called the Donbas a key issue in the Abu Dhabi talks and said Russia must also show it wants peace. He said he and Trump had agreed on post-war security guarantees at Davos.
Said
23 JanGovernment of Russia: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from the Donbas was a very important condition for a settlement. Putin aide Yuri Ushakov said Moscow wanted a diplomatic outcome but would pursue its goals on the battlefield until then.
Said
20 JanUnited Nations: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said he was outraged by repeated large-scale Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy system, called them cruel and a clear breach of the rules of war, and urged Russian authorities to stop them immediately.
December 2025
Open
29 DecGovernment of Russia: Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Ukraine had attacked Putin's Valdai residence with 91 drones, that such reckless actions would not go unanswered, and that Russia would revise its position in the talks while not withdrawing from negotiations with the US.
Said
15 DecGovernment of Ukraine: President Zelensky said after the Berlin talks that any format of Donbas under Russian control was unacceptable to him and that the sides still had different positions on territory.
Open
2 DecGeneral Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's General Staff called the Russian flag-raising video in Pokrovsk another attempt by the Kremlin to use a videotaped flag operation for propaganda, and said Ukrainian forces held the northern part of the city along the railway.
November 2025
Said
29 NovGovernment of Kazakhstan: Kazakhstan lodged an official protest over the naval drone strike on the Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal at Novorossiysk, saying it harmed bilateral relations with Ukraine; Ukraine's foreign ministry replied that its strikes target Russia's military-industrial potential, not Kazakhstan.
Said
23 NovGovernment of the United States: Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social before the Geneva talks that Ukraine's leadership had expressed zero gratitude for US efforts, and pointed to European purchases of Russian oil.
Open
22 NovGovernment of the United States: Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote that the peace proposal was authored by the US and later said any final agreement would have to be signed off by the presidents.
Open
19 NovUnited Nations: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said he was particularly appalled by the high number of civilian casualties in Ternopil, said civilians and civilian infrastructure are protected under the laws of war, and called on Russia to stop its attack and withdraw its forces from Ukraine.
October 2025
Open
31 OctGeneral Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said there was no encirclement or blockade of Pokrovsk or Myrnohrad and that troops, weapons and drones were being sent to reinforce Pokrovsk.
Said
22 OctGovernment of the United States: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, announcing sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil, said now was the time to stop the killing and for an immediate ceasefire, and that Treasury was prepared to take further action.
Said
16 OctGovernment of Russia: Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump that supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine would not change the situation on the battlefield but would significantly harm relations between the two countries and the prospects for a settlement.
September 2025
Said
23 SepGovernment of the United States: Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, after meeting President Zelensky at the UN General Assembly, that Ukraine with EU support was in a position to fight and win all of Ukraine back in its original form, and called Russia a paper tiger. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected both points.
Said
23 SepGovernment of Denmark: Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called the drone flights over Copenhagen airport the most serious attack on Danish critical infrastructure so far, linked them to other drone incursions, airspace violations and cyberattacks in Europe, and said she could not rule out that Russia was behind them.
Said
10 SepMinistry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry acknowledged strikes on Ukrainian targets on the night drones entered Poland but said it had no intention of targeting anything on Polish territory.
August 2025
Said
22 AugGovernment of Hungary: Hungarian foreign minister Peter Szijjarto called the Ukrainian strike on the Druzhba pipeline an attack on Hungary's sovereignty that endangered its energy security and nearly forced use of strategic reserves.
Unresolvable
20 AugGovernment of Poland, including the Polish Armed Forces: Polish defence minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said the drone that exploded near Osiny was Russian and called it another provocation by the Russian Federation.
Unresolvable
18 AugGovernment of the United States: Donald Trump said at the White House that Vladimir Putin had agreed Russia would accept security guarantees for Ukraine, calling it a very significant step, and that the US would give Ukraine very good protection.
Said
15 AugGovernment of Russia: Vladimir Putin, speaking after the Alaska summit, said he had reached an understanding with Donald Trump, hoped Kyiv and European capitals would not torpedo it, and said a lasting settlement required eliminating the root causes of the conflict.
July 2025
Said
29 JulGovernment of the United States: President Donald Trump, aboard Air Force One, said Russia had ten days from 29 July to agree a ceasefire, shortening the 50-day window he set earlier in July, after which he had threatened secondary tariffs of up to 100 percent on buyers of Russian goods. He said he was very disappointed in Vladimir Putin.
Said
23 JulGovernment of Russia: Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky, after the Istanbul talks, said a meeting between Putin and Zelensky should be used only to sign a finished settlement, not to hold discussions, and that the two sides' positions remained quite far apart.
June 2025
Said
4 JunGovernment of the United States: Trump said after a call of more than an hour with Putin that it would not lead to immediate peace and that Putin had said "very strongly" Russia would have to respond to the attack on its airfields.
Partly supported
1 JunGovernment of Ukraine: Ukraine's SBU said its drone operation had hit 41 Russian military aircraft used against Ukraine, worth a combined $7bn.
May 2025
Said
25 MayGovernment of the United States: Trump wrote on Truth Social that Putin had "gone absolutely CRAZY" and that Zelensky was "doing his Country no favors by talking the way he does"; asked whether he was considering more sanctions on Russia, he said "Absolutely".
Said
16 MayGovernment of Russia: Kremlin negotiator Vladimir Medinsky said Moscow was satisfied with the Istanbul talks and ready to continue contacts, and cited the 21-year Great Northern War with Sweden as a sign Russia was ready to fight as long as it took.
Said
11 MayGovernment of Ukraine: Zelensky said he would be waiting for Putin in Turkey on Thursday "personally", while Ukraine and its European allies maintained that a 30-day ceasefire should come first.
April 2025
Unresolvable
26 AprMinistry of Defence of Russia: Gerasimov told Putin the Kursk region had been fully liberated, said the main area of the incursion covered 1,260 square kilometres, and praised North Korean servicemen for helping defeat the Ukrainian force.
Said
24 AprGovernment of the United States: After the Kyiv attack, Trump posted "Vladimir, STOP!" and told reporters he had his own deadline for a ceasefire, describing Russia's agreement not to take over the whole of Ukraine as a "pretty big concession".
Said
18 AprGovernment of the United States: Rubio said the US was ready to abandon its Ukraine peace efforts within days if there was no sign of progress, and Trump said the US would "take a pass" unless a deal came quickly.
Said
6 AprGovernment of Ukraine: Energoatom chief executive Petro Kotin said it would be unsafe for Russia to restart the occupied Zaporizhzhia plant because of insufficient cooling water, personnel and incoming power, and that Ukraine would need up to two years in peacetime to restart it if it regained control.
March 2025
Said
28 MarGovernment of Russia: Putin suggested Ukraine could be placed under a temporary administration under UN auspices to hold new elections; a US spokesperson rejected the idea and the Kremlin later said it was one of several options and had not been raised with Trump.
Said
19 MarGovernment of Ukraine: After a call with Trump, Zelensky said they had discussed only one power plant, the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, after Trump suggested the US could own and run Ukrainian nuclear plants as part of a ceasefire.
Said
13 MarGovernment of Russia: At a Kremlin news conference with Alexander Lukashenko, Putin said the idea of a 30-day ceasefire was "the right one" and that Russia supported it, but that there were questions to discuss with the Americans before it could proceed.
Supported
11 MarGovernment of the United States: Rubio said in Jeddah that Ukraine was ready to stop the fighting and get to the table, that the ball was now in Russia's court, and that if Russia said no the impediment to peace would be known.
February 2025
Said
23 FebGovernment of Ukraine: Zelensky told a news conference he was ready to give up the presidency if that achieved peace, and could trade it for Nato membership, responding days after Trump called him a dictator.
Unresolvable
19 FebGovernment of the United States: Trump wrote on Truth Social that Zelensky was "a Dictator without Elections" who "better move fast" or would not have a country left, after earlier suggesting Ukraine was to blame for the war; Zelensky had said Trump was living in a Russian "disinformation bubble" and that a claim his approval stood at 4 per cent was false.
Said
12 FebGovernment of the United States: Defence secretary Pete Hegseth told the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels that Europe must provide the overwhelming share of future aid to Ukraine, that a return to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders was unrealistic, and that the US could not be primarily focused on European security.
January 2025
Said
24 JanGovernment of Russia: Putin told a Russian state television journalist that Russia was open to and ready for negotiations with Trump on Ukraine and that it would be better for them to meet "based on the realities of today".
Said
22 JanGovernment of the United States: Trump wrote on Truth Social that Russia's economy was failing, urged Putin to "settle now and stop this ridiculous war", and said that without a deal he would impose high taxes, tariffs and sanctions on Russian goods sold to the US and other countries.
December 2024
Unresolvable
19 DecGovernment of South Korea: South Korea's National Intelligence Service told lawmakers at least 100 North Korean soldiers had been killed and over 1,000 injured in Kursk, and that Pyongyang might send more troops.
Unresolvable
18 DecGovernment of Russia: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the killing of General Kirillov showed that Ukraine does not shy away from terrorist methods.
Unresolvable
18 DecMinistry of Defence of Russia: Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov said the Ukrainian army had lost about one million dead and wounded since the start of the operation, along with about 20,000 tanks and armoured vehicles.
Unresolvable
16 DecMinistry of Defence of Russia: At an expanded meeting of the Russian defence ministry board attended by President Putin, Defence Minister Andrei Belousov said Ukraine's armed forces had lost almost one million people since the start of what Russia calls its special military operation.
Unresolvable
13 DecGovernment of Ukraine: President Zelensky said Russia launched 93 missiles, including at least one North Korean-made missile, and almost 200 drones at Ukraine's energy system, with 81 missiles shot down.
November 2024
Unresolvable
21 NovGovernment of Russia: In a televised address, President Putin said Russia had used a new medium-range missile, Oreshnik, in combat against a target in Dnipro in response to Ukraine's use of US and British long-range weapons, said the conflict had taken on a global character, and said Russia considered it had the right to strike military facilities of countries whose weapons were used against it.
Unresolvable
21 NovGeneral Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile from Astrakhan Oblast at Dnipro; President Zelensky said its speed and altitude matched an ICBM.
Said
19 NovGovernment of Russia: President Putin signed a decree updating Russia's nuclear doctrine: aggression by a non-nuclear state with a nuclear power's support is treated as a joint attack, nuclear use is considered on reliable information of a massive attack with missiles crossing the border, and the threshold is a critical threat to sovereignty or territorial integrity, including of Belarus. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said a conventional Ukrainian attack with US missiles could potentially trigger a nuclear response.
Said
18 NovGovernment of Russia: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said reports that Washington had allowed Ukraine to fire US missiles deeper into Russia signalled a new round of tensions and a new situation regarding US involvement in the conflict.
October 2024
Unresolvable
Unresolvable
18 OctGovernment of Ukraine: Ukraine's military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov told The War Zone that about 11,000 North Korean infantry were training in eastern Russia, would be ready to fight by 1 November, and that a first group of 2,600 was due to go to Kursk Oblast.
Said
2 OctGeneral Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's Khortytsia operational group said higher command allowed units to withdraw from Vuhledar to preserve personnel and equipment, saying Russian forces had suffered heavy losses and used reserves for flanking attacks that threatened encirclement.
September 2024
Said
25 SepGovernment of Russia: At a Security Council meeting, President Putin announced planned changes to Russia's nuclear doctrine: aggression by a non-nuclear state with the support of a nuclear state would be treated as a joint attack on Russia, and nuclear use would be considered on reliable information of an incoming aerospace attack or a conventional attack posing a critical threat to Russia or Belarus.
Unresolvable
12 SepGovernment of Russia: President Putin told journalists in St Petersburg that allowing Ukraine to use Western long-range missiles against targets deep in Russia would mean NATO countries were at war with Russia, arguing that only NATO personnel could programme such strikes, and said Russia would respond to the threats.
August 2024
Unresolvable
15 AugGeneral Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said Ukrainian forces had advanced up to 35 km into Kursk Oblast and controlled 1,150 square km and 82 settlements.
Unresolvable
7 AugMinistry of Defence of Russia: Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov told President Putin that Ukrainian troops aimed to seize Sudzha district but that their advance toward Kursk had been halted.
July 2024
Said
11 JulGovernment of Russia: Former president and Security Council deputy chair Dmitry Medvedev wrote on Telegram that Ukraine's irreversible path to NATO should end with the disappearance of Ukraine or NATO, or both.
Said
10 JulGovernment of the United Kingdom: UK prime minister Keir Starmer, travelling to the NATO summit, told Bloomberg it was for Ukraine to decide how to use British Storm Shadow missiles for defensive purposes, within international humanitarian law.
Unresolvable
9 JulUnited Nations: HRMMU head Danielle Bell said analysis of video and an on-site assessment showed a high likelihood that Okhmatdyt hospital suffered a direct hit, pointing to a Kh-101 missile, while saying the mission could not be 100 percent certain.
Unresolvable
9 JulGovernment of Russia: Russia's UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told the Security Council that photos and videos showed the Okhmatdyt hospital was hit by a Ukrainian air defence missile, not a Russian strike.
June 2024
Said
24 JunGovernment of Russia: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the Sevastopol strike barbaric, accused the US of killing Russian children and said US involvement could not go without consequences.
Said
14 JunGovernment of Russia: Speaking at the foreign ministry on the eve of the Swiss summit, Putin said Russia would cease fire and start talks immediately if Ukraine withdrew from all of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions within their administrative borders, gave up NATO membership, adopted neutral non-nuclear status and sanctions were lifted.
Unresolvable
14 JunGovernment of Russia: Putin said almost 700,000 Russian troops were fighting in Ukraine, up from the 617,000 he cited in December 2023; Ukraine's military intelligence said the true figure was about 450,000.
Said
14 JunGovernment of Ukraine: President Zelensky rejected Putin's conditions as ultimatums, and adviser Mykhailo Podolyak called the proposal a complete sham.
May 2024
Unresolvable
12 MayMinistry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry said air defences shot down Tochka-U missiles and rockets over Belgorod region and that a missile fragment damaged the apartment building that collapsed.
April 2024
Unresolvable
16 AprGovernment of Ukraine: President Zelensky told PBS NewsHour that Russia destroyed the Trypilska power plant because Ukraine had run out of air defence missiles, saying 11 missiles were fired, 7 were shot down and 4 hit the plant.
March 2024
Unresolvable
28 MarGovernment of Russia: Russia's Investigative Committee said it had verifiable information that the Crocus City Hall attackers received significant sums of money and cryptocurrency from Ukraine.
Unresolvable
17 MarGeneral Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's General Staff put Russian personnel losses since 24 February 2022 at 430,740. Ukrainian outlets describe the daily figure as killed and wounded together.
February 2024
Said
29 FebGovernment of Russia: In his address to the Federal Assembly Putin warned that Western support for Kyiv risked a nuclear conflict, said Russia's strategic nuclear forces were in full readiness, and called fears of a Russian attack on a NATO country nonsense.
Unresolvable
27 FebMinistry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence minister Sergei Shoigu said Ukraine had lost 444,000 soldiers since February 2022. He did not say whether the figure counted deaths only.
Said
26 FebGovernment of France: French President Emmanuel Macron said there was no consensus to send troops to Ukraine in an official manner, but that nothing could be ruled out.
Said
25 FebGovernment of Ukraine: President Zelensky said about 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been officially recorded as killed, and claimed 180,000 Russian soldiers were killed and 500,000 killed or wounded; he declined to give a figure for Ukrainian wounded.
Said
20 FebGovernment of Russia: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Yulia Navalnaya's accusation that Putin was behind her husband's death absolutely unfounded and vulgar.
Said
16 FebGovernment of the United States: US President Joe Biden said Putin was responsible for Alexei Navalny's death.
Unresolvable
9 FebGovernment of Ukraine: National Security and Defence Council secretary Oleksii Danilov said there were no Ukrainian prisoners of war on the Il-76 and that Russia's claim was fabricated, arguing Russia would have filmed the site if prisoners had died there.
January 2024
Unresolvable
31 JanGovernment of Russia: President Putin said it was obvious that Ukraine shot down the Il-76 transport over Belgorod region on 24 January and claimed a US-made Patriot system was used.
Unresolvable
25 JanGovernment of Ukraine: Ukraine's human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said crash-site images showed no sign of a large number of people aboard the Il-76 and that some prisoners Russian sources listed as dead had already been exchanged.
December 2023
Unresolvable
30 DecGovernment of Russia: At the UN Security Council, Russian ambassador Vasily Nebenzya called the Belgorod strike a terrorist attack by Kyiv on a sports centre, an ice rink and a university, and said Russia's 29 December strikes targeted only military infrastructure.
Unresolvable
20 DecGeneral Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Oleksandr Shtupun, spokesman for Ukraine's Tavria group of forces, said Russian forces had advanced 1.5 to 2 kilometres in places around Avdiivka since 10 October, at a cost of almost 25,000 killed and wounded across the group's sector, about 80 percent of them in the Avdiivka direction.
November 2023
Unresolvable
30 NovGovernment of Ukraine: Ukraine's human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said prisoner exchanges were not taking place because Russia did not want them, and accused Moscow of telling its public that Ukraine was doing nothing to bring its soldiers home.
Said
1 NovGeneral Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: In an interview and essay in The Economist, commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi described the war as a stalemate entering a positional phase of static, attritional fighting that would let Russia rebuild, and listed air power, electronic warfare, counter-battery fire, mine breaching and reserves as needs. Deputy head of the presidential office Ihor Zhovkva said the military should not disclose the front-line situation, and on 4 November President Zelensky rejected the stalemate description.
October 2023
Said
31 OctGovernment of Russia: Russia's representative to the UN Security Council described the gathering hit at Hroza as a legitimate military target, without explicitly accepting responsibility. The UN monitoring mission said it found no military personnel or target at or near the event.
Unresolvable
5 OctGovernment of Russia: At the Valdai forum in Sochi, President Putin said the head of the Investigative Committee had told him fragments of hand grenades were found in the bodies of those killed in the Prigozhin crash and that there had been no external impact on the plane; he gave no detail on how grenades could have detonated on board.
September 2023
Unresolvable
26 SepMinistry of Defence of Russia: At a defence ministry meeting shown on video, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said more than 17,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed in September.
Unresolvable
25 SepGeneral Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's Special Operations Forces said 34 Russian officers, including the Black Sea Fleet commander, were killed and 105 wounded in the 22 September strike on the fleet headquarters. The next day Russia's defence ministry released video it said showed Admiral Viktor Sokolov at a meeting that day.
August 2023
Unresolvable
25 AugGovernment of Russia: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Western suggestions that the Kremlin ordered the crash that killed Prigozhin an absolute lie, and said test results on the victims would be published when ready.
Said
24 AugUnited States Armed Forces: Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said the initial US assessment was that Prigozhin was likely killed, and that there was no information to corroborate reports that a surface-to-air missile brought down the plane.
Said
24 AugGovernment of Russia: After nearly a day of silence, President Putin offered condolences to the families of all the victims of the crash and described Prigozhin as a man who made serious mistakes in his life but achieved the right results.
July 2023
Said
18 JulGovernment of Russia: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the overnight missile strikes on Odesa as retaliation for the 17 July attack on the Crimean Bridge.
Said
17 JulGovernment of Russia: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Black Sea agreements had ceased to be in force because the part concerning Russia had not been implemented, that Russia would return immediately once its conditions were met, and that the decision was not linked to the Crimean Bridge attack.
Unresolvable
17 JulUnited Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he deeply regretted Russia's decision, that the Black Sea Initiative had moved over 32 million tonnes of food from Ukrainian ports and helped cut food prices by over 23 percent since March 2022, and that he had sent President Putin a new proposal that went unheeded.
Said
11 JulGovernment of Ukraine: President Zelensky wrote that it was unprecedented and absurd for NATO to set no timeframe either for an invitation or for Ukraine's membership.
June 2023
Unresolvable
26 JunWagner Group: Prigozhin said the march aimed to prevent the destruction of Wagner and hold those responsible for mistakes to account, not to overthrow the government, and that no soldier on the ground was killed during it.
Said
26 JunGovernment of Russia: Putin said Russia's enemies, including what he called neo-Nazis in Kyiv, their Western backers and national traitors, wanted Russian soldiers to kill each other during the mutiny.
Said
24 JunGovernment of Russia: In a televised address Putin called the Wagner rebellion betrayal and treason and said all who prepared it would suffer inevitable punishment.
Unresolvable
23 JunWagner Group: Prigozhin said the defence ministry had deceived the public and the president, rejecting the claim that Ukraine planned to attack Russian-held eastern Ukraine in February 2022, and said a strike ordered by Shoigu killed about 2,000 Wagner fighters.
Said
16 JunGovernment of Ukraine: Foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said the missile attack on Kyiv during the African leaders' visit was timed to it and showed Russia wanted more war, not peace.
Unresolvable
13 JunGovernment of Russia: Putin said Ukraine's counteroffensive had suffered catastrophic losses, including 160 tanks and more than 360 other armoured vehicles, against 54 Russian tanks, that Kyiv's casualties were ten times Moscow's, and that Russia might create a sanitary zone inside Ukraine if attacks on border regions continued.
Unresolvable
9 JunGovernment of Ukraine: Ukraine's Security Service said it had intercepted a phone call showing a Russian sabotage group was responsible for destroying the dam; NBC said it could not verify the recording.
Unresolvable
6 JunMinistry of Defence of Russia: Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Russian forces repelled all Ukrainian attacks in a large-scale offensive and killed 3,175 Ukrainian soldiers in three days.
Unresolvable
6 JunGovernment of Ukraine: Zelenskyy blamed Russian terrorists for destroying the Kakhovka dam; adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said Russia did it in a panic to slow Ukraine's counteroffensive.
Unresolvable
6 JunGovernment of Russia: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected the accusations and called the dam's destruction deliberate sabotage by Ukraine ordered from Kyiv, aimed partly at depriving Crimea of water.
May 2023
Unresolvable
23 MayGovernment of Ukraine: Deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar denied Ukrainian involvement in the Belgorod raid, saying Ukraine was not waging war on foreign territories.
Said
21 MayGovernment of Ukraine: At the G7 summit in Hiroshima Zelenskyy said Russian forces had destroyed everything in Bakhmut, that for today it was only in our hearts and there was nothing left; his spokesman said he had not confirmed the city's capture.
Said
20 MayWagner Group: Announcing the capture of Bakhmut, Prigozhin blamed Defence Minister Shoigu and Chief of Staff Gerasimov for heavy losses and said five times more men died than should have.
Unresolvable
3 MayGovernment of Russia: The Kremlin said drones used against the Kremlin overnight were a planned terrorist act and an attempt on the president's life.
Unresolvable
3 MayGovernment of Ukraine: Zelenskyy, speaking in Helsinki, denied the Kremlin claim and said Ukraine did not attack Putin or Moscow and fought on its own territory.
April 2023
Said
26 AprGovernment of Ukraine: After his call with Xi Jinping, Zelenskyy said there could be no peace at the expense of territorial compromises.
March 2023
Said
25 MarGovernment of Russia: Putin said stationing tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus would not breach non-proliferation commitments because the US had long kept nuclear weapons in allied European states, and that Russia would keep control of them.
Said
20 MarGovernment of Russia: Former president and Security Council deputy chair Dmitry Medvedev said it was possible to imagine a hypersonic missile fired from a Russian ship in the North Sea at the ICC building in The Hague.
Unresolvable
9 MarGovernment of Ukraine: Ukrainian security council secretary Oleksiy Danilov claimed Ukraine lost one soldier for every seven Russians in Bakhmut.
Unresolvable
6 MarWagner Group: Prigozhin said he had written about the urgent need for ammunition at Bakhmut, that his representative's pass to the operational headquarters had been cancelled, and accused the defence ministry of withholding shells.
February 2023
Unresolvable
21 FebGovernment of Russia: In his address to parliament Putin announced Russia was suspending participation in New START and accused the West of direct involvement in attempts to attack Russian strategic air bases.
January 2023
Said
5 JanGovernment of Ukraine: Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said a truce would be possible only if Russia left the occupied territories, and called the Russian church's truce call a propaganda trap; Zelenskyy said Russia wanted a pause to bring in more equipment.
Unresolvable
4 JanMinistry of Defence of Russia: Lieutenant General Sergey Sevryukov said the Makiivka toll had risen to 89 and that soldiers' unauthorised mobile phone use let Ukraine track and target them.
December 2022
Said
26 DecGovernment of Russia: Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia's proposals for the demilitarisation and denazification of territory controlled by Kyiv, and the removal of threats from what he called Russia's new lands, were well known, and that Kyiv should fulfil them for its own good or the Russian army would decide the matter.
Unresolvable
22 DecWagner Group: Wagner owner Yevgeny Prigozhin dismissed a US statement that North Korea had delivered rockets and missiles paid for by Wagner as gossip and speculation; North Korea's foreign ministry called the report false.
Said
15 DecGovernment of Russia: Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia's Security Council, said Patriot systems deployed with NATO personnel would become a legitimate target for Russia's armed forces, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov backed the threat; foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said delivery would be another provocative move by a US that had effectively become a party to the war.
Unresolvable
10 DecGovernment of Ukraine: Zelenskyy said the occupiers had destroyed Bakhmut, another Donbas city that the Russian army had turned into burned ruins, and that the situation in front-line cities in Donetsk and Luhansk remained very difficult.
November 2022
Contradicted
16 NovGovernment of Ukraine: Zelenskyy said he was sure the missile that hit Przewodow was Russian and that Ukraine's air defences had been firing, and on 17 November said Ukrainian experts would join the investigation and the crater's size suggested it was not caused by parts of an interceptor.
Supported
15 NovMinistry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry denied that Russian missiles hit Polish territory and called the reports a deliberate provocation; the Kremlin said it had no information about the explosion.
October 2022
Unresolvable
23 OctMinistry of Defence of Russia: In calls with his US, British, French and Turkish counterparts, Defence Minister Shoigu said Ukraine was preparing a provocation with a dirty bomb. Britain, France and the US rejected the claim as transparently false, and the IAEA said on 3 November its inspections at three Ukrainian sites found no sign of undeclared nuclear activity or material.
Partly supported
10 OctGovernment of Russia: Putin told his Security Council that the strikes on Ukraine's energy, military and communications facilities were a response to the Crimean Bridge blast and other attacks he called terrorism, and warned of severe responses to further attacks.
Unresolvable
9 OctGovernment of Russia: Putin called the Crimean Bridge explosion an act of terrorism devised, carried out and ordered by Ukrainian special services.
September 2022
Said
30 SepGovernment of Russia: At the annexation ceremony Putin said residents of the four regions had made their choice and would be Russian citizens forever, said Russia would defend them by all means available, and cast the war as a confrontation with the United States and the West.
Said
29 SepUnited Nations: Secretary-General Guterres said any annexation of a state's territory by another state through threat or use of force violated the UN Charter, and that annexing the four regions would have no legal value.
Said
27 SepGovernment of Russia: Former president Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia's Security Council, said Russia had the right to use nuclear weapons to defend itself and that this was certainly not a bluff.
Said
21 SepGovernment of Russia: Announcing partial mobilisation, Putin accused the West of nuclear blackmail and said that if Russia's territorial integrity were threatened it would use all means at its disposal, adding that this was not a bluff.
August 2022
Unresolvable
22 AugGovernment of Russia: Russia's Federal Security Service said Ukrainian special services prepared and carried out the killing of Darya Dugina, named a Ukrainian woman as the perpetrator and said she had fled to Estonia.
Unresolvable
22 AugGovernment of Ukraine: Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak dismissed the FSB account as Russian propaganda, and National Security Council secretary Oleksiy Danilov said Ukraine's special services had nothing to do with the killing.
July 2022
Said
7 JulGovernment of Russia: Meeting parliamentary leaders in Moscow, Putin said Russia had not yet started anything in earnest in Ukraine, dared the West to try to defeat Russia on the battlefield, and said Russia did not reject peace talks but that negotiations would get harder the longer they were delayed.
Unresolvable
3 JulMinistry of Defence of Russia: Defence Minister Shoigu reported to Putin that Russian and Luhansk forces had established full control of Lysychansk and that the Luhansk People's Republic had been liberated.
June 2022
Said
30 JunMinistry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry said that as a gesture of goodwill its forces had completed their tasks on Snake Island and withdrawn the garrison, to show Russia was not obstructing UN efforts to organise grain exports from Ukraine.
Unresolvable
28 JunMinistry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry said its aerospace forces struck hangars holding Western-made weapons and munitions at the Kremenchuk road machinery plant, and that the detonation caused a fire in a non-functioning shopping centre next to the plant.
May 2022
Unresolvable
20 MayMinistry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry said the last 531 fighters at Azovstal had surrendered, that 2,439 had laid down arms since 16 May, and that the plant was completely under Russian control.
April 2022
Unresolvable
18 AprGovernment of Ukraine: President Zelensky said Russian troops had begun the battle for Donbas, which they had been preparing for a long time, and that no matter how many Russian troops were sent there, Ukraine would fight.
Unresolvable
14 AprMinistry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry said ammunition on the cruiser Moskva detonated as a result of a fire and that the ship lost stability and sank in a storm while being towed to port. It did not say a missile had hit the ship.
Contradicted
8 AprMinistry of Defence of Russia: Russia denied attacking Kramatorsk railway station and said its forces no longer used the Tochka-U missile system.
Contradicted
3 AprMinistry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry said its units had withdrawn completely from Bucha as early as 30 March, and Russian officials described the images of bodies in the town as staged.
March 2022
Said
29 MarMinistry of Defence of Russia: After the Istanbul talks, Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin said Russia would drastically reduce military activity in the Kyiv and Chernihiv directions to increase trust, and that talks on Ukraine's neutrality and non-nuclear status had moved into a practical phase.
Said
25 MarMinistry of Defence of Russia: Colonel General Sergei Rudskoy of the General Staff said the main objectives of the first stage of the operation had generally been accomplished and that Russia would now focus its main efforts on what he called the liberation of Donbas.
Unresolvable
13 MarMinistry of Defence of Russia: Russia's defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said strikes on the Yavoriv training centre killed up to 180 foreign mercenaries and destroyed a large amount of foreign-supplied weapons.
Unresolvable
10 MarGovernment of Russia: Speaking in Antalya, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the Mariupol maternity hospital had long been seized by the Azov battalion and other radicals and that mothers and staff had been moved out before the strike.
February 2022
Said
28 FebGeneral Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: Ukraine's navy said all of the Snake Island border guards were alive and held by the Russian navy, reversing President Zelensky's earlier statement that the 13 guards had been killed.
Said
24 FebGovernment of Russia: In a televised address announcing the invasion, President Putin said the goal was to protect people who had been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv government for eight years, and that Russia would seek the demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine.