Ukrainian forces have liberated 745 square km of Russian-occupied land this year across a swathe of the southeastern front, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday, hailing an operation he said went “exactly as planned”.
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Zelenskiy said 26 settlements in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, and Zaporizhzhia regions had been brought back under Kyiv’s control. They are located along an approximately 60 km stretch of the front where the borders of the three regions meet.
According to a battlefield map by Ukrainian open-source group DeepState, much of the area remains in a grey zone that is not fully controlled by either side. Some is marked as still Russian-controlled.
Russia’s battlefield advances have slowed this year across much of the front, analysts say, though its forces are still closing in on key cities in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.
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