Areas where Ukraine has regained control

Potential route of counteroffensive

Russian-controlled territory and most recent

Russian advances*

Russian fortifications

Bakhmut

Dnipro

Ukraine

Dnipro River

Zaporizhzhia

nuclear plant

Donetsk

Zaporizhzhia

M14

Melitopol

Mariupol

Berdiansk

E105

Attack from Zaporizhzhia region

to first take Melitopol and break

the land bridge to Crimea,

then to Berdiansk

Dzhankoi

Russia

Crimea

Kerch strait bridge

Kyiv

50 km

50 miles

Areas where Ukraine has regained control

Potential route of counteroffensive

Russian-controlled territory and most recent Russian advances*

Russian fortifications

Bakhmut

Luhansk

Ukraine

Dnipro

Dnipro River

Donetsk

Zaporizhzhia

nuclear power plant

Zaporizhzhia

Taganrog

Rostov-on-Don

M14

Melitopol

Kherson

Mariupol

Russia

Berdiansk

E105

Attack from Zaporizhzhia region

to first take Melitopol and break

the land bridge to Crimea, then

to Berdiansk

Dzhankoi

Crimea

Kyiv

Kerch strait bridge

50 km

50 miles

Guardian graphic. Source: the Institute for the Study of War with AEI’s Critical Threats Project. *Areas ISW assesses Russian forces have operated in or launched attacks against but do not control. 10pm local time, 9 May 2023. Brady Africk, analysis of satellite imagery from Copernicus. Shows defences constructed or expanded since Russia’s invasion last year, not an exhaustive list