An exceptional year.. What gains did Russia achieve in Ukraine during 2025?
You registered last year exceeded what it achieved in any year except 2022, an AFP analysis showed on Friday.
Russia’s gains in Ukraine during 2025
This includes areas that Kiev and military analysts say are under Russia’s control, in addition to those that the Russian army announced. Control.
These areas are larger than those controlled by the Russian army in the previous two years combined, although they are much less than the 60,000 square kilometers it controlled in the first year of the invasion.
Russia achieved its largest advance in 2025 in November (701 square kilometers), while the 244 square kilometers it controlled in December was the smallest since March, according to the data.
Great pressure in Ukraine
Ukraine was subjected to great pressure in 2025 due to Russian bombing and on the ground, as it steadily abandoned territory to the Russian army.
US President Donald Trump held talks with both sides in an effort to put an end to the fighting.
But he has failed so far to extract concessions from the Kremlin, which occupies nearly a fifth of Ukraine’s area, and has demanded Kiev’s withdrawal from the eastern Donbas region in exchange for peace.
/>Kiev accuses Russia of not wanting to achieve peace, saying it is deliberately sabotaging diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the war in the hope of seizing more Ukrainian territory.
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