100 days of war: 100 observations from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

FRIDAY, June 3 marked day 100 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, “the illegal and unprovoked war” launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Here we take a look at 100 key moments, observations and lessons learned from the first hundred days of the war.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, the day that many people woke up to war for the first time in their lives and which has now continued for 100 days, and counting.

100 headlines and observations from the war in Ukraine

1. Nightly addresses from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
2. Messaging app Telegram becomes the go-to for obtaining information about individual regions in Ukraine
3. Increasing reports of the deteriorating health of Russian President Vladimir Putin
4. Daily updates of Russian combat losses supplied by Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence
5. The sinking of the Russian flagship missile cruiser Moskva – dubbed “a significant loss”
6. Fire in Russia (1) – Russian defence research facility burned in Tver
7. Vladimir Putin orders the arrest of military chief, General Roman Gavrilov, by the FSB security service
8. Roman Abramovich sensationally walks away from Chelsea ahead of multiple sanctions
9. Belarus joined Russia in the invasion of Ukraine
10. Finland and Sweden applied for NATO membership
11. The US has provided huge amounts of weaponry and funds to Ukraine
12. Boris Johnson visited Ukraine
13. Spain’s Pedro Sanchez visited Kyiv
14. Zelensky addressed UK parliament
15. War or ‘Special Military Operation‘?
16. Russian Navy warship Admiral Makarov was on fire, sunk or neither
17. Russian soldiers accused of horrific war crimes
18. First Russian soldiers sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to war crimes
19. Ukrainian official sacked for accusations made against Russian soldiers
20. Brits housing Ukrainian refugees
21. Multiple Russian generals killed in Ukraine or simply fired by Putin
22. Taliban called on Russia and Ukraine to end the crisis through “peaceful means”
23. Gas supplies have been cut by Russia for countries refusing to pay in rubles
24. Russia’s threat of unleashing SATAN 2 intercontinental ballistic missile
25. Battle for Chernobyl
26. Moskva commander Anton Valerievich Kuprin – dead or alive
27. Russia’s Nationalist Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky dead and then dead again
28. Faltering peace talks
29. Mia, the miracle baby born in the Kyiv metro during the Russian bombings
30. Ghost of Kyiv – real or not real
31. British MoD Defence intelligence updates on the invasion of Ukraine
32. Russia has suffered its worst ‘massacre’ of military leadership since World War II
33. One of the deadliest snipers in the world – dead or alive
34. Russia was alleged to have bombed Belarus in a false flag attack
35. Torture claims against Russian soldiers ‘proven’ after calls were intercepted between a soldier and his mother
36. Iconic Ukrainian artist who opposed KGB starves to death following Russian occupation
37. Jack Russell terrier – the hero explosives sniffer dog of the Ukrainian military
38. Putin warned Bosnia “what happened to Ukraine could happen to you”
39. The Commander of Russia’s most elite fighting force was killed in Ukraine
40. Battle for Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s largest nuclear plant
41. Brits to Ukraine (1) – Ex-pats travelled from Spain to help Ukrainian refugees
42. Battle for Snake Island and the infamous “go f*** yourself” war cry
43. Kharkiv zoo was relentlessly attacked
44. Chechen kill squads entered Ukraine under orders from Putin
45. Mass graves found in Bucha
46. Eurovision 2022 was won by Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra with their song “Stefania”
47. Radio Liberty journalist and producer Vira Hyrych was killed in Kyiv
48. Popular Ukrainian journalist Oleksandr Makhov was killed in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine
49. Anonymous dumped details of 120K Russian Soldiers
50. Google denied unblurring Russia’s military installations on their maps
51. Ukraine looked at forming a “super-alliance” outside of NATO after Zelensky decided against membership application
52. Ukrainian teenage girls shaved their heads to ‘look unattractive’ after rape claims against Russian soldiers
53. Fire in Russia (2) – Fire broke out in the centre of Irkutsk Russia
54. Russian attacks on Severodonetsk have been the focal point in days/weeks prior to day 100
55. Russia has considered leaving WHO and WTO among other World organisations
56. The body of Russian model Gretta Vedler was found in a suitcase one month calling Putin a psychopath
57. Putin’s daughters revealed
58. The southeastern port city of Mariupol was conquered by Russian soldiers following weeks of intense attacks
59. Azovstal steelworks plant, one of the largest metallurgical plants in Europe, was the focal point of Russian attacks for weeks
60. A Russian missile strike destroyed a historical building in Lozova, Kharkiv
61. The largest refugee crisis in Europe since the Second World War with over 3.4 million Ukrainians fleeing the country.
62. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a major escalation of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict that started back in 2014
63. Humanitarian corridors, set up and then broken
64. Zelensky’s wardrobe
65. Z pattern – From Russian gymnasts to dead bodies and etched on Snake Island
66. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
67. People burned Russian passports
68. Turkey and Croatia against Finland and Sweden’s NATO bid
69. Putin said ‘war is being waged against Russia with real aggression’ online
70. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was called ‘the most active anti-Russia’ leader by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov
71. Zelensky or Zelenskyy?
72. Pantsir and Tor-M2 air defence missile systems were deployed to Snake Island after Russian logistics ship was hit by Ukrainian forces
73. Ukraine mocked Russia over the sunken Moskva warship by posting an edited picture of the coat of arms of Murmansk
74. Britain deployed Stormer armoured missile launchers to Ukraine
75. £97 million property complex owned by Alexei Mordashov, Russia’s alleged richest man, was seized by authorities in Sardinia
76. Valery Gerasimov, Putin’s top military commander, was evacuated from Ukraine after suffering shrapnel wounds
77. Putin was rumoured to own a mysterious £532million superyacht moored in Italy
78. Roman Abramovich was involved in a suspected poisoning attack following peace talks between Russia and Ukraine
79. Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas region called the invasion a mistake
80. Russian oligarchs have fallen off Forbes Rich List following sanctions
81. Russia Today (RT) was shut down in the UK following sanctions imposed on Russia
82. Russia threatened to abandon NASA astronauts on the ISS
83. Fire in Russia (3) – Suspicious fire broke out at a Russian aerospace institute
84. Russia abscond with $10bn worth of aircraft
85. Russia withdrew from the Council of Europe
86. Fire in Russia (4) – Several buildings burned and landscapes blazed after a fire raged at a shopping centre in Ishim, Russia
87. Complaints of ‘poor quality war footage’ on social media 
88. Russian oligarchs Vladislav Avayev and Sergey Protosenya both died under suspicious circumstances less than a day apart
89. The 77-year-old face of Russia’s Anti-War Movement
90. Ukrainian musician Svyatoslav Vakarchuk performed a concert at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
91. Russian soldiers have been left to eat dogs due to poor Russian military logistics
92. Brits to Ukraine (2) – Ex-pat travelled from Spain to help Ukrainian refugees
93. High-ranking Russian officers were killed by partisans in occupied Melitopol
94. NATO has been reluctant to send troops in order to avoid an escalation of the war
95. Fire in Russia (5) – Fire broke out in the centre of Irkutsk Russia
96. Russian soldiers turned their weapons on Chechen fighters
97. Fire in Russia (6) – Huge fire engulfed a business centre in Moscow, Russia
98. Fears war could last until the end of the year
99. Ukraine accused NATO of “doing literally nothing” to stop Russia
100. Senior Russian commanders were punished for the Moskva sinking and the failures in Kharkiv

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