• silverlose@lemm.ee
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        2 days ago

        Russia? Not as far as I can tell. They seem to lose 1-1.5k people a day to lose ground. Ukraine has more tanks than the start of the war, and more of their own land back.

        I think the most critical thing is manpower. AFAIK we’re not sure how many Ukrainian soldiers are left (I couldn’t find anything if you do please link it).

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        2 days ago

        So far all the land they gained was in that territory that they were destabilizing since 2014. They spend thousands of people and all the money to level small towns to the ground, after which Ukranian forces fall back from the rubble, and Russians technically take it. Sometimes they do that several times, because holding a bunch of smoldering derbies is actually hard.
        On paper you can call it taking the land. I don’t know what portion of the land they grabbed in the beginning of the war they still hold, I think it less than before, especially if you take into account Kursk region, but it’s hardly anything substantial.