March 31, 2025, at 1 131e The day of the Russian “special operation”, the situation in the Donbass seems to turn against Ukraine. Russia has slowly nibbled the front line, winning 4,200 square kilometers since December 2023. In the first quarter of 2025, around 950 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory went under Russian control.
Moscow controlled around 18.3 % of the Ukrainian territory at the end of March 2025, while in March 2022, it occupied a little more than a quarter, before retiring from the north of the country and losing part of the Donbass.
Source: Lemonde