In August, the pace of occupation finally fell by 18, with the Russians occupying 464 square kilometers, as reported by Deep State.
Last month, the Russian forces reached 19% occupation of Ukraine’s total territory. The last time the Russian forces held this level was on October 3, 2022, before the Defense Forces’ offensive on Dudchany.
In other words, the increase in occupied territory over the past 2 years and 11 months has been practically zero. Similarly, it can be noted that in eastern Ukraine, the territory lost by us roughly equals the territory liberated on the right bank of Kherson during the same period.
This time, a correlation was again made between assault operations and the proportion of lost territory:
- Novopavlivka — 38% of total km² (16% of assault operations during the month)
- Lyman — 27% km² (17% of assault operations)
- Pokrovsk — 19% km² (33% of assault operations)
- Toretsk — 9% km² (6% of assault operations)
- Siversk — 3% km² (4% of assault operations)
- Kramatorsk — 3% km² (3% of assault operations)
- Zaporizhzhia — 1% km² (1% of assault operations)
- Kupiansk — 0.4% km² (5% of assault operations)
- Sumy — 0% km² (7% of assault operations)
The conclusions are similar to last month. In this correlation, the most effective directions are Pokrovsk and Sumy, as the Russian forces must attack more frequently to achieve success there.
Novopavlivka remains the most problematic area, where the Russian forces achieves greater success with fewer losses. Problems have also arisen in Lyman, as a large part of the Serebriansky Forest has been lost.
