Russian troops are advancing in Ukraine at the fastest pace since the initial 2022 invasion, seizing an area equivalent to half the size of London in the past month, according to analysts and war bloggers. The Russian army has captured nearly 235 square kilometres over the past week, marking a new weekly record for 2024.
Russian forces are advancing in Ukraine at the fastest rate since the early days of the 2022 invasion, taking an area half the size of London over the past month, analysts and war bloggers said.
Russian Army snipers walk changing their position while fighting with Ukrainian Armed forces at an undisclosed location in Ukraine.“Russia has set new weekly and monthly records for the size of the occupied territory in Ukraine,” it said. And Ukrainian media quoted Nazar Voloshyn, a spokesperson for the Khortytsya group of troops, as saying Kyiv’s forces had repelled a Russian advance on the logistical centre of Kupiansk, also in Kharkiv region. It was the second time this month that the Ukrainian military reported rebuffing an attack on Kupiansk.
A source on Ukraine’s General Staff, said on Sunday that Ukraine now held around 800 of the 1376 sq km of Kursk that they held initially and would hold it “for as long as is militarily appropriate”. A Ukrainian unit prepares to mine territory between Ukrainian and Russian positions with remotely controlled mines at the Pokrovsk front line, Ukraine, last week.Neither side publishes accurate data on their own losses though Western intelligence estimates casualties to number hundreds of thousands killed or injured, while swathes of eastern and southern Ukraine have turned into wastelands.
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