Russia’s advance into Ukraine slowed by almost half in September, according to the monitoring group DeepState, with Moscow capturing its smallest amount of territory since May.
“The Russians managed to capture 259 square kilometers (100 square miles)” in September, DeepState, a Ukrainian open-source mapping site that charts the war’s front lines, said in a report released Wednesday.
“Last month, the enemy occupied 44% less territory than in August,” it said. “Over the course of the month, the Russians managed to occupy 0.04% of the country’s total area, bringing the total figure to 19.04%.”
On Wednesday, the Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, said his troops had regained control over 2.2 square kilometers (around 0.85 square miles) of Ukrainian territory over the past day.
“Moreover, attack and search operations were conducted to destroy the enemy on a 3 square kilometer area in the Pokrovsk district of the Donetsk region. Our assault units advanced from 100 meters to 1,400 meters in certain directions,” he said.
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