Ukrainian resistance in Russian-occupied Ukraine

Ukrainian resistance in Russian-occupied Ukraine
Part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Date1 March 2022 – present (2022-03-01 – present)
(3 years, 3 months, 2 weeks and 3 days)
Location
Status Ongoing
Belligerents

 Ukraine

 Russia

Commanders and leaders
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Oleksii Reznikov
Rustem Umerov
Valerii Zaluzhnyi
Oleksandr Syrskyi
Mustafa Dzhemilev
Tamila Tasheva
Vadym Filashkin
Oleksii Kharchenko
Oleksandr Prokudin
Ivan Fedorov
Oleh Syniehubov
Vitaliy Kim
Vladimir Putin
Sergei Shoigu
Andrey Belousov
Valery Gerasimov
Sergey Aksyonov
Mikhail Razvozhayev
Denis Pushilin
Leonid Pasechnik
Volodymyr Saldo
Yevhen Balytskyi
Vitaly Ganchev
Units involved
Popular Resistance of Ukraine
Berdiansk Partisan Army
Yellow Ribbon
Atesh
SBU
Rukh Oporu
S.R.O.K
«Ї» group
Zla Mavka

Russian Armed Forces
Rosgvardiya
OMON
FSB
Russian Border Guards
Police of Russia
Ukrainian collaborators

    When Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, it occupied vast portions of the country, having already occupied parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as well as the entirety of Crimea since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2014. Partisan groups began to be organized in mid-2022. These groups have been involved in intelligence-gathering, sabotage, and assassinations. Much of their activity has taken place in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts of southern Ukraine.