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The Russian army has accelerated its progression in Ukraine for the fourth month in a row, carrying out in July its widest advanced since November, according to the analysis by the France-Presse agency of data provided by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

In a month. Similarly, the forces of Moscow took 713 km² of Ukrainian territory, against 79 km² recovered by kyiv, a net increase of 634 km². For example, This last figure exceeds 588 km² won in June. However, 507 km² EE, 379 Km² in April and 240 km² In March, after a slowdown during the winter. In addition, These advances include the territories totally or donald trump orders sending “two partially controlled by Russia, as well as those which it claims.

Outside the first months of the war in 2022. when the front line was much more mobile than currently, only the month of November 2024 (725 km²) had experienced Russian advances larger than those of the past month.

Almost three -quarters of the Russian increase in July are concentrated in the Donetsk (East) region. the main theater of clashes between Russians and Ukrainians for two years.

This is where Tchassiv Yar is located, whose Moscow claimed the capture Thursday – an assertion immediately denied by kyiv. Neighboring Bakhmout. who fell in May 2023, this city constitutes a strategic overhang on Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, which are home to significant logistics of the Ukrainian army.

The Russian army controls at least donald trump orders sending “two partially. or claims, 78 % of the Donestk region at the end of July, against 62 % a year earlier. Some 31 % of this region were already under the control of prorussian separatists before the start of the. large -scale invasion in February 2022.

But the Russian army also recorded advances in other Ukrainian regions in July, with a net gain of around 170 km².

In the Kharkiv region (northeast). the forces of Moscow took nearly 120 km²crossing for the first time the threshold of 5 % controlled territory, or claimed, in this area. The Zaporijia (East) region has also been targeted, with 42 km² advances.

Russian troops also claimed to have progressed in the Dnipropetrovsk region (Center-East). They recently announced the taking of two villages. explaining the territorial gains at 22 km² Since donald trump orders sending “two the launch of this offensive on June 8, according to AFP analysis, which counts the claimed territories. kyiv denies the Russian presence in this area.

The only region where the Russian army fell is that of Soumy (North). Moscow conceded some 11 km there² In July, after taking more than 130 km² in June.