As of 4 p.m., February 22, 54 combat engagements took place at the front since the beginning of the day. Almost half of them took place in the Pokrovsk direction alone, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.

President Donald Trump this week falsely blamed Ukraine for starting the war that has cost tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives.

Monday marks the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The war — which the Kremlin once characterized as a “special military operation” to discipline an insubordinate neighbor — has sprawled across hundreds of miles of front lines,