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| Ukraine takes back more than 230 square miles from Russia in first months of 2026, military chief says |
| 2026-06-09 |
| [NY Post] Ukraine’s army has recaptured more than 230 square miles of territory so far this year, Kyiv’s military chief confirmed Monday as momentum continues to shift against Russia’s more than four-year-old invasion. Oleksandr Syrskyi said his forces have retaken several strips of land across the 800-mile front in the first five months of 2026, with about one-sixth of the territorial gains resulting from last month’s offensive. May’s total gain of more than 38 square miles also marked Russia’s first net retreat since a major counter-offensive by Kyiv in 2023, according to DeepState, an independent ​Ukraine-based battlefield analyst group. In total, Ukrainian forces struck more than 88,000 Russian military targets in May, killing more than 30,000 soldiers and causing more than $1 billion in damage to Moscow’s military-industrial complex, Syrskyi added. Syrskyi added that the fighting remains most intense in the eastern Donetsk region, where Russia has struggled to make significant advances for nearly two years. |
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