Russia's navy marketing campaign in Ukraine stalls for first time in additional than two years

[ad_1] Russia's military recorded no territorial positive factors on the entrance line in Ukraine in March for the primary time in two and half years, AFP evaluation of knowledge from the Institute for the Examine of Battle (ISW) confirmed.

Ukrainian forces managed to recapture 9 sq. kilometres in March as Moscow's forces slowed down throughout your entire entrance line, in line with the evaluation. This determine excludes infiltration operations carried out by Russian forces past the entrance line, in addition to advances claimed by the Russian aspect however neither confirmed nor denied by the ISW.

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© FRANCE 24 The ISW labored with the Essential Threats Challenge (a part of the American Enterprise Institute, or AEI), one other US think-tank specialising in battle. The Russian military has been slowing its advance since late 2025 because of counter-offensives within the southeast of the nation, with 319 sq. kilometres of positive factors in January and 123 sq. kilometres in February, the smallest advances since April 2024.

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The ISW attributed the slowdown of the Russian military in current months to Ukrainian counter-offensives, but in addition to "Russia's ban on utilizing Starlink terminals in Ukraine" and "the Kremlin's efforts to limit entry to Telegram".

The messaging app, very fashionable amongst Russians together with these preventing on the entrance line, has been barely usable in current months because of blocks imposed by the authorities.

As in February, Russia has misplaced floor on the southern part of the entrance line, between the Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk areas, the place it occupied greater than 400 sq. kilometres on the finish of January. This space shrank to 200 sq. kilometres in February and to 144 sq. kilometres in March. The state of affairs was, nevertheless, unfavourable for Kyiv additional north within the Donetsk area, in direction of the 2 main regional cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.

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In 2025, the Russian military made extra progress in Ukraine than within the previous 24 months. However within the first three months of 2026, Russian territorial positive factors had been half these of the identical interval in 2025.

4 years after the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Moscow occupies simply over 19 p.c of the nation, nearly all of which was seized in the course of the first weeks of the battle.

Roughly seven p.c, together with Crimea and areas within the Donbas area, was already below Russian or pro-Russian separatist management earlier than the invasion.