Bad news for Russia. The latest analysis of the situation published by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) indicates that the country presided over by has lost 120 square kilometers of territory during the month of April.
Although the figure is not large (it represents around 0.02% of the Ukrainian territory) it is a sign that Things on the battlefield are not developing the way Russian forces would like.
It should be noted that it is the first time that the Russian military suffers a monthly net loss of territory since August 2024 Ukrainian forces will carry out the incursion into the Russian Kursk region.
From the ISW they detail that Ukraine has made territorial gains in the three main eastern regions (Zaporijia, Kharkiv and Donetsk). Specifically, Ukrainian fighters managed to recover approximately 40 square kilometers in each of these areas. For its part, Russia has made progress around the large city of Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region.
Despite the aforementioned net loss of 120 square kilometers during the month of April, 19% of Ukrainian territory is under Russian rule (including the Crimean peninsula and areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions that were already controlled by Russia before the armed conflict began in February 2022).
The new milestone of Ukrainian drones
On the other hand, as reported by the German media he Colonel of the Austrian Armed Forces, Markus Reisnerhighlighted that Ukraine has been able to stop Russian advances in recent weeks thanks to drones.
In an interview on the television channel Reisner has assured that, with the massive use of droneskyiv can achieve detect and neutralize even small Russian assault units at an early stage.
According to the Austrian military expert, in this way Ukraine has achieved create a 50-kilometer-wide “death zone” on the front which has become one of the great defensive assets of the country led by Volodymyr Zelensky.
