Russian invasion of Ukraine

Quality:

Russian invasion of Ukraine - ongoing military conflict in Eastern Europe since 2022. This event is the 10^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 52^nd most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Russian invasion of Ukraine” in Simple English Wikipedia has 95 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1418 references and 84 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5 points.

This article has the best quality in Russian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2474^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 616^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 52^nd most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 229^th most popular in all topics.

The 317^th most popular in AI.

The 10^th most popular in events.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1787^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 205^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 132^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 114^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Russian invasion of Ukraine” was edited by 6 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (205^th place) and written by 182 authors in all languages (114^th place).

Since the creation of article “Russian invasion of Ukraine”, its content was written by 104 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (616^th place) and edited by 9219 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (317^th place).

Russian invasion of Ukraine is on the 52^nd place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 10^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 350 times in Simple English Wikipedia (8031^st place) and cited 93854 times in all languages (1488^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1 in February 2025
• Global: #1 in April 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #22 in April 2025
• Global: #1 in April 2022

There are 54 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Russian (ru) Вторжение России на Украину (с 2022)		100
2	German (de) Russischer Überfall auf die Ukraine seit 2022		100
3	Ukrainian (uk) Російське вторгнення в Україну (з 2022)		100
4	Hebrew (he) מלחמת אוקראינה–רוסיה		100
5	Dutch (nl) Russische invasie van Oekraïne sinds 2022		100
6	Slovak (sk) Ruská invázia na Ukrajinu		100
7	Slovenian (sl) Ruska invazija na Ukrajino		100
8	Norwegian (no) Russlands invasjon av Ukraina 2022		100
9	Croatian (hr) Invazija Rusije na Ukrajinu 2022.		100
10	Malay (ms) Pencerobohan Rusia ke atas Ukraine 2022		100

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Russian invasion of Ukraine		78 229 457
2	Russian (ru) Вторжение России на Украину (с 2022)		45 803 688
3	German (de) Russischer Überfall auf die Ukraine seit 2022		7 059 594
4	Ukrainian (uk) Російське вторгнення в Україну (з 2022)		5 399 519
5	Spanish (es) Invasión rusa a Ucrania		5 153 309
6	Chinese (zh) 俄羅斯入侵烏克蘭		4 683 630
7	French (fr) Invasion de l'Ukraine par la Russie		4 546 924
8	Polish (pl) Inwazja Rosji na Ukrainę		4 046 420
9	Japanese (ja) ロシアのウクライナ侵攻		3 648 083
10	Italian (it) Invasione russa dell'Ucraina del 2022		1 399 729

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Russian invasion of Ukraine		560 676
2	Russian (ru) Вторжение России на Украину (с 2022)		249 211
3	Spanish (es) Invasión rusa a Ucrania		57 244
4	German (de) Russischer Überfall auf die Ukraine seit 2022		43 454
5	Chinese (zh) 俄羅斯入侵烏克蘭		42 788
6	Japanese (ja) ロシアのウクライナ侵攻		36 106
7	French (fr) Invasion de l'Ukraine par la Russie		31 130
8	Polish (pl) Inwazja Rosji na Ukrainę		25 834
9	Ukrainian (uk) Російське вторгнення в Україну (з 2022)		19 715
10	Turkish (tr) Rusya'nın Ukrayna'yı işgali		16 053

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Russian invasion of Ukraine		1 804
2	Russian (ru) Вторжение России на Украину (с 2022)		1 472
3	French (fr) Invasion de l'Ukraine par la Russie		638
4	German (de) Russischer Überfall auf die Ukraine seit 2022		520
5	Spanish (es) Invasión rusa a Ucrania		474
6	Chinese (zh) 俄羅斯入侵烏克蘭		408
7	Ukrainian (uk) Російське вторгнення в Україну (з 2022)		396
8	Japanese (ja) ロシアのウクライナ侵攻		379
9	Polish (pl) Inwazja Rosji na Ukrainę		278
10	Hebrew (he) מלחמת אוקראינה–רוסיה		233

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Russian invasion of Ukraine		32
2	Spanish (es) Invasión rusa a Ucrania		14
3	Russian (ru) Вторжение России на Украину (с 2022)		14
4	Japanese (ja) ロシアのウクライナ侵攻		12
5	Polish (pl) Inwazja Rosji na Ukrainę		12
6	German (de) Russischer Überfall auf die Ukraine seit 2022		11
7	Dutch (nl) Russische invasie van Oekraïne sinds 2022		11
8	Hebrew (he) מלחמת אוקראינה–רוסיה		7
9	Simple English (simple) Russian invasion of Ukraine		6
10	Bulgarian (bg) Руско нападение над Украйна		5

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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