Speed of advance of russian troops in Ukraine increases – media

The russian army of occupation is rapidly advancing in the east of Ukraine. Since the beginning of October, they managed to capture more than 470 square kilometers of Ukrainian territories. These are the biggest gains in the area since March 2022.

It was reported by Welt.

So, according to the media, last week the aggressor rapidly advanced on the battlefield. In total, from October 20 to 27, the russian federation occupied 196 square kilometers. At the same time, the AFP agency, citing data from the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), found that since the beginning of October, the army of russian terrorists captured 478 square kilometers of the territory of Ukraine.

"By October 27, Russian troops captured more territory than in August and September, when the territorial gains amounted to 477 and 459 square kilometers, respectively. In two months, significant shifts have already taken place on the front line, in particular in the eastern Ukrainian Donetsk Region around the strategically important city of Pokrovsk," stated Welt journalists.

The journalists also noted that two-thirds of the aggressor's territorial gains in October fell on the Donetsk Region, where the invaders are approaching Pokrovsk from the south and east. At the same time, the Ukrainian army is experiencing difficulties on the Eastern Front in the face of numerically superior and better armed russian soldiers.

"The last time Russian troops succeeded in such an advance was in March 2022, when they advanced on Kyiv. In total, in 2023, they occupied 584 square meters of the territory of Ukraine, the area of ​​occupation as of January 1, 2024 is 2,660 square kilometers. Together with the Crimea annexed in 2014 and the areas of the Donbas, which were already under control before the full-scale Russian offensive, Moscow now controls about 18.2 percent of the territory of Ukraine," the journalists of the publication summarized.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, Ukrainian General Dmytro Marchenko stated that due to management errors, lack of ammunition, weapons and people, the situation at the front in the Donetsk Region has worsened. He called it a "collapse of the front".