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[Korrespondent] The Russian offensive has not stopped for the second year in a row.
The pace of the invaders' advance is accelerating. If the trend continues, Ukraine will lose more than 4,000 square kilometers by the end of this year, journalists claim.
Since the beginning of 2025, Russian troops have occupied a territory in Ukraine the size of Luxembourg. This was reported on Friday, July 18, by Bild , citing assessments by Ukrainian and Russian military bloggers.
The Russian army has occupied 2,395 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory since the beginning of the year. This is almost the size of Luxembourg (2,586 square kilometers). For comparison, in 2024, Russian troops captured 3,388 square kilometers. This means that their advance is accelerating. If the trend continues, Ukraine will lose more than 4 thousand square kilometers by the end of this year, the publication says.
It is claimed that in June alone the Ukrainian Armed Forces abandoned two dozen populated areas.
Due to the lack of personnel, the Ukrainian command allocates 5-10 people to defend small settlements, while Russian units of 20-50 soldiers attack them. Even if they lose half of the attackers killed and wounded, the rest reach their goal and capture the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, journalists write.
Let us recall that in June alone, the Russian army occupied 556 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory. This was reported by the analytical project DeepState. The greatest advances were in the Novopavlovsky and Pokrovsky directions.
The intelligence service also reported that by the beginning of July Russia had attracted more than 700 thousand servicemen to the war . This is a new record. In just two months, their number has grown by 60 thousand.
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