Russian forces have superior 278 sq. kilometres of their week-old offensive in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv area and within the south, their greatest positive factors in a year-and-a-half, AFP has calculated utilizing information from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
Between May 9 and 15, Moscow’s navy gained 257 sq. kilometres (99 sq. miles) of territory within the Kharkiv space and 21 sq. kilometres in different areas, together with the prized southern village of Robotyne which Ukraine had recaptured final 12 months.
They characterize Russia’s greatest positive factors since mid-December 2022 when it superior within the Lugansk area after main setbacks round Kharkiv and within the south.
Since the beginning of 2024, Russian forces have taken round 800 sq. kilometres of Ukrainian territory — greater than the round 600 sq. kilometres gained in all of 2023.
The modifications to the entrance line, which had barely budged in over a 12 months, stay restricted nevertheless, with Russia’s positive factors accounting for lower than one % of the Ukrainian territory beneath Moscow’s management.
But Russia’s new push on two fronts marks the largest change to the entrance line since mid-December 2022, when Russian forces superior greater than 350 sq. kilometres within the Lugansk area after being routed from the southern metropolis of Kherson and from the approaches to Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-biggest metropolis.
Since the beginning of the battle on February 24, 2022, Russia has captured 65,336 sq. kilometres of Ukrainian territory, representing practically 12 % of Ukraine’s floor space, excluding the Crimean peninsula which Moscow annexed in 2014.
AFP’s calculations are primarily based on information revealed each day by the US-based ISW, which produces information primarily based on info revealed by each events to the battle in addition to on satellite tv for pc photographs of Ukraine.
Source: www.thehindu.com
