Southern Ukraine campaign

Southern Ukraine campaign
	Part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
	; A map of the Russian-occupied territory and military advances in Kherson Oblast at their maximum extent in March 2022
Date	24 February 2022 – present; (1 year, 11 months, 3 weeks and 2 days)
Location	Southern Ukraine (Donetsk Oblast, Kherson Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast, Zaporizhzhia Oblast)
Status	Ongoing Russian forces capture Kherson, Mariupol, Melitopol, Nova Kakhovka, Oleshky, Berdyansk, Snihurivka, and Enerhodar.; The Russian army advances to Mykolaiv and attempts to encircle the city, but is pushed back.; Russian forces reach Mariupol from the west and assist troops participating in the eastern Ukraine offensive for the takeover of the city.; An occupation regime in Kherson Oblast is installed by Russia.; Ukrainian forces recapture all of Mykolaiv Oblast (except the Kinburn Peninsula) and all of right-bank Kherson Oblast including Kherson City during a counter-offensive in the south;
Belligerents
Russia Donetsk PR; Luhansk PR;	Ukraine
Commanders and leaders
Vladimir Putin; Mikhail Mishustin; Valery Gerasimov; Gennady Zhidko; Oleg Salyukov; Nikolai Yevmenov; Sergey Dronov; Zaur Dimayev † (4th Battalion of the Akhmat Kadyrov special forces regiment); Andrey Mordvichev (killed per Ukrainian claim); Yakov Rezantsev (killed per Ukrainian claim)	Volodymyr Zelenskyy; Denys Shmyhal; Valerii Zaluzhnyi; Oleksandr Syrskyi; Serhiy Kotenko †; Vitaliy Nevinsky; Vyacheslav Dimov †
Units involved
See order of battle	See order of battle
Strength
c. 13,000 (March 2022); 20,000–25,000 (August 2022); 40,000 (October 2022); 152,000 (May 2023)	Unknown

The southern Ukraine campaign is an ongoing theatre of operation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on 24 February 2022. From their base in Russian-occupied Crimea, the Russian Armed Forces attacked Kherson Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast, and Zaporizhzhia Oblast in southern Ukraine, battling the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Elements from the southern Russian offensive joined forces with elements from the eastern Ukraine offensive to jointly surround and bombard the city of Mariupol in Donetsk Oblast, which fell after months of siege.

Kherson was captured in March, after which Russian forces advanced quickly to the outskirts of Mykolaiv, where the front stabilised until a Ukrainian offensive in August. Ukrainian forces retook all of the territory west and north of the Dnieper river, and the front stabilised again just south of Kherson in November 2022. Kherson, the only oblast capital captured by Russia after its 2022 invasion, was liberated on 11 November.

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