From the day of February 24 to April 24, the main lines of the war are seen in this flow. The Ukrainian army forced the Russian army to retreat. The Russian army began evacuating the Kyiv, Sumy and Chernihiv regions between 25 March and 5 April. He considered this (April 6-12) necessary for reorganization and concentrating on the targets he had clarified. After that he headed for Donbass and Mariupol. He took Mariupol, the last settlement in the Sea of Azov, on April 21. He wants to control the Dnieper watershed by moving north from Kherson. In this sense, the operation continues in the Zaporizhzhia region, albeit to a limited extent. It is increasing its measures in order not to lose Kherson to Ukraine again. It is not yet possible for the operation to progress towards the west, to the north of Odessa.