In December of this year, Russia halved the speed of its attack in Ukraine, writes the independent Russian portal Agientstwo, citing data from the Ukrainian DeepState project, which provides the latest reports from the front.
In the period from December 1 to 26, Russia occupied 345 square kilometers of the territory of Ukraine. This is twice less than in November of this year, when Russian forces controlled 700 square kilometers of the territory of the neighboring country, reports the independent Russian portal Agientstwo.
We read that over the past month, Russian forces have advanced more in the western part of the front, in the area of the cities of Pokrovsk and Kurakhov (Donetsk region).
The agency reminds that Pokrovsk is an important logistics center for the armed forces of Ukraine. In this city, there is also the country’s only coking coal mine, which is of great importance for the production of steel. Currently, the Russian army is only about five kilometers from this city.
Pokrovsky city of Donetsk region Reuters
Fighting in the Kursk region
The agency reports that Russian forces have increased the speed of their operations in another part of the front, in the Kursk region. Ukrainian forces started attacking this border region in early August.
In the Kursk region, Russia managed to regain control of 85.4 square kilometers of territory. Russian troops have approached the city of Malaya Loknya and are under control of a part of the border areas (with Ukraine – ed.) in the Sudjan region, – wrote the independent portal of Russia. He mentions that the rate of attack by Russian forces in the Kursk region was also higher in November. During this time, Russia regained control of 216 square kilometers of land.
Battle in Russia’s Kursk region Reuters
Moscow region
The agency reports that in one year Russia has taken over 3183 square kilometers of Ukraine. “If we exclude from this the territory occupied by the armed forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region (493.6 square kilometers), this number is 2689.4 square kilometers. This is equal to the area of Moscow,” he wrote. portal.
The independent Russian website reports that at the end of 2023, the area of Ukraine under Russian control decreased by 191 square kilometers compared to the end of 2022.
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Losses on both sides
The loss of Russian military equipment in the last year is 5,955 units, including 1,053 tanks, 711 armored vehicles, 2,041 infantry fighting vehicles, 193 armored vehicles and 35 aircraft. This is more than last year, when the Russian army lost 5,123 units of equipment – writes Agientstwo, referring to the conclusions of Dutch experts who run the Oryx military blog.
The losses of Ukraine during the year amounted to 2459 units of equipment (290 tanks, 76 armored vehicles, 308 infantry fighting vehicles, 301 armored vehicles, 25 aircraft). This is more than last year, when the country’s armed forces lost 2219 pieces of equipment.
According to the reports of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army, since the beginning of the armed attack in February 2022, the human losses of the Russian army amount to about 786 thousand soldiers (killed and wounded – editor).
Since the beginning of the aggression, the enemy forces have lost, according to the Ukrainian side, including 9,656 tanks, about 20,000 armored vehicles, and more than 20,000 artillery systems.
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Silence in Moscow and Kyiv
Radio Svoboda’s Ukrainian section previously noted that neither Russia nor Ukraine discloses almost any information about their losses in the war. The number of victims is reported by independent Russian media based on open sources. In mid-November, the Russian branch of the BBC and the Mediazona website identified the names of 78,329 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine.
On February 25, 2024, two years after the invasion, President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed during the war. Meanwhile, he said that he could not reveal how many of them were injured or missing.
In September, the Ukrainian media reported that the losses of the Ukrainian forces could reach 480,000 soldiers (killed and wounded), citing the Wall Street Journal, which pointed to the findings of Western intelligence.
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