| Another high-ranking Russian officer defects | Article 5 triggered | Large-scale encirclement and surrender of Russian forces | Entire Russian regiments routed | Nuclear power plant siege |
| T-34s sent into battle | Ukraine finally destroys the Crimean bridge | Observation balloons are used | T-14 destroyed or captured | Mass evacuation from Crimea |
| Ukrainians reach the Azov sea | Crimea liberated | FREE SPACE | Putin assassinated | New mass graves discovered |
| Hostilities spread to neighboring countries | China stops trading with Russia | China invades Taiwan | Tactical nuclear weapons used | Russian propagandist gets murdered |
| US military action against Cuba | War between Germany and Poland | Israel-Hamas ceasefire over | Putin arrested when traveling abroad | Russian civil war |