RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR: A FOUR YEAR- LONG HOSTILITY

The present Russia- Ukraine War is causing tremendous loss of properties and lives of people and creating economic, social, environmental and human problems throughout the world. Russia’s full-scale invasion on Ukraine, its south-west neighbour started on February, 24, 2022, when Putin, the President of Russia announced ‘a special military operation for the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine’ (1). He claimed that Russia had no plans to occupy Ukraine, but within a few minutes’ missiles and airstrikes hit across Ukraine, including its capital Kyiv. Then happened a large ground-invasion on Ukraine by Russia from multiple directions. Russian attacks were initially launched on a northern front from Belarus towards Kyiv, a southern front from Crimea and a south- eastern front from Donesk and Luhansk. On April 9, 2022 a renewed Russian attack happened on the Donbas region. Russian forces continued to bomb both military and civilian targets. Ukraine, in response, enacted martial law, ordered general mobilization, retaliated back with counter- offensives and severed diplomatic relations with Russia. This war has not ended even in March, 2026; it is still going on.