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Since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, Ukraine has liberated a total of 74,443 square km of territory from Russian forces, according to data from the Institute for the Study of War think-tank.
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Ukrainian troops advanced on Kherson on November 11 after Russia said its troops had completed their withdrawal from the southern city, capping one of the biggest setbacks to President Vladimir Putin’s invasion.
Kyiv’s advance and Moscow’s chaotic retreat across the Dnipro river, which took place under Ukrainian artillery fire, meant that Russia had surrendered the only provincial capital captured in the war, as well as surrendering a strategic position.
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In late August, Ukraine launched its first major counteroffensive since Russia’s full-scale offensive in the country began in February, although Kyiv complained that its forces lacked heavy enough western weapons to mount a decisive strike.
The advance liberated 3,000 square km of territory in just six days – Ukraine’s biggest victory since it drove Russian troops from the capital in March.
Ukrainian forces continue to push east, taking the transportation hub Lyman, near the northeastern corner of Donetsk province, which wrestled from Russian control on October 1. The hard-fought victory came after almost three weeks of fighting and set the stage for the Ukrainian advance to Svatove, the logistics center for Russia after its forces lost the Kharkiv region in the lightning Ukrainian counter-offensive.
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The shift in the focus of the conflict to the Donbas region follows Russia’s failure to capture Kyiv during the first phase of the war. Before Ukraine’s swift counterattack, Russia’s small gains in the east suggested the war had entered a period of stalemate.
Russia was thwarted in Kyiv by a combination of factors, including geography, attackers’ blunders and modern weaponry – as well as Ukraine’s ingenuity with smartphones and pieces of foam.
The number of Ukrainians fleeing the conflict has made it one of the largest refugee crises in modern history.
In mid-March, an attack on a Ukrainian military base, which had been used by US forces to train Ukrainian soldiers, increased Russia’s immediate threat that NATO’s continued support for Ukraine risks turning it into an enemy combatant in the war. On March 24, NATO agreed to establish four new multinational battle groups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia to augment forces in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
Source: Institute of War StudiesRochan Consulting, FT research
Cartography and development by Steve Bernard, Chris Campbell, Caitlin Gilbert, Cleve Jones, Emma Lewis, Joanna S Kao, Sam Learner, Change Rininsland, Niko Kommenda, Alan Smith, Martin Stabe, Night of Rust and Liz Fawn. Based on a report by Roman Olarchyk and John Reed in Kiev, Guy Chazan in Lviv, Henry Foy in Brussels and Night of Rust in London.