Russia now controls only 17.5% of Ukrainian territory

This article, originally published in January 2023, has been updated with the latest available readings – those from June 2023.

Moreover, the count on which we base ourselves, that of War Mapperhas been revised since the previous update and its figures may differ from previous ones.

June 30, at 493e day of a Russian “special operation” which was supposed to last only a week or two, kyiv announced that the Ukrainian armed forces had liberated about 200 km2 since the beginning of their counter-offensive.

But at a time when the initiative is Ukrainian on an almost frozen front, the figures confirm what the maps have been saying for many long months already: in Ukraine, the area controlled by Moscow is stagnating, even after the capture of the devastated city of Bakhmout, in May 2023.

After making slow progress for several weeks, and despite the offensives announced by the Russian general staff in the spring, Moscow only controlled 17.5% of Ukrainian territory at the end of June. At the height of its advance, in March 2022, it occupied just over a quarter.

The slow decline of the territory occupied by Moscow

This graph represents, from January 2022 to Todaythe proportion of the 603,550 km² of Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia and that still controlled by kyiv.

Controlled by Kyiv

Occupied by Moscow

…before February 2022

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