""After seizing the initiative in 2024, Russian forces have advanced at an average rate of between 15 and 70 meters per day in their most prominent offensives, slower than almost any major offensive campaign in any war in the last century," the researchers wrote. They used their findings to dispute recent statements by Russian leaders, including the country's president, Vladimir Putin, that the Kremlin has been gaining significant momentum in recent months."
""But even in Pokrovsk, where Russia advanced the fastest, the Kremlin's troops took roughly 70 meters of territory per day, totaling 50 kilometers, or roughly 31 miles, over the last two years, Jones and McCabe wrote. The pair calculated the rate of advance based on the straight-line distance by which battle territory shifted, which doesn't account for the total area of territory seized.""
Russia's rate of advance over the last two years has been among the slowest in modern war, even during its fiercest campaigns. The most prominent offensives after the February 2024 seizure of Avdiivka focused on Kupiansk, Pokrovsk, and Chasiv Yar. Advance rates ranged between 15 and 70 meters per day, with Pokrovsk the fastest at about 70 meters daily, totaling roughly 50 kilometers over two years. Those figures are based on straight-line shifts in battlefield lines and do not measure total area seized. Russian claims of broad momentum contrast with continued Ukrainian pockets of resistance and pushback.
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