https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian-occupied_territories_of_Ukraine

Amount of Ukrainian territory under Russian control during the conflict.
20 May 2024      18%  ~109,000 km2 (42,000 sq mi)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Russia
Russia (Russian: Россия) is the largest country in the world, covering over 17,125,191 km2 (6,612,073 sq mi), and encompassing more than one-eighth of Earth's inhabited land area.

42,000/6,612,073 sq mi x 100 = 0.64%

Results for November 1, 2024:

• The positions of the Russian Armed Forces in the area with Petrovpavlovka in the Kupyansk direction have been clarified,
• In the Liman direction, the Russian army is entering the settlement of Terny from the north
• The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the liberation of the village of Leonidovka - a suburb of Toretsk/Dzerzhinsk.
• The results of the change in the front line for October have been summed up. Record advances of the Russian army have been recorded.

AFU losses:

Personnel – 2415
Armored vehicles – 13, including:
BBM – 9
APC – 4 "M113"
Auto – 26
Art – 20
EW station and (or) KBB – 6
Field ammunition depot – 2
"ATASMS" (missile) – 5
HIMARS (RS) – 3
UAV – 174

Bobby. wrote on Nov 4^th, 2024 at 11:55am:


Without us would be better 

tallowood wrote on Nov 4^th, 2024 at 11:34am:

If things were that sad, then yes
1) Vlad
2) tallowood
would worry.  Tallowood has worked furiously to make Vlad happy.

tallowood wrote on Nov 4^th, 2024 at 12:18pm:


This was the overarching strategic animus in the opening year of the war (2022), which presupposed that Russia was anticipating a short war against an isolated Ukraine. This theory of victory relied on the assumption that Russia would be unwilling or unable to commit the resources necessary in the face of unexpected Ukrainian resistance and a blitz of military support and sanctions from the west. There was a kernel of truth underpinning this theory, in the sense that the resources mobilized on the Russian side were inadequate in the first year of the war (leading to significant Ukrainian successes on the ground in Kharkov, for example), however, this phase of the war ended in the winter of 2022 with Russian mobilization and the shift of the Russian economy to a war footing.

tallowood wrote on Nov 4^th, 2024 at 12:18pm:


This theory of victory took primacy in 2023, and identified Crimea as the strategic center of gravity for Russia. Kiev therefore supposed that Russia could be crippled or knocked out of the war by severing its connection to Crimea - a plan which required capturing a corridor in the land bridge on the Azov coast through a mechanized counteroffensive, bringing Crimea and its linkeages within easy range of Ukrainian strike systems. This plan collapsed with the decisive defeat of the Ukrainian ground operation on the Orokhiv-Robotyne axis.

tallowood wrote on Nov 4^th, 2024 at 12:18pm:


Finally, Ukraine has postulated that a multi-domain pressure campaign on Russia, including the seizure of Russian home territory in Kursk oblast, a campaign of strikes on Russian strategic assets, and the continued strain of western sanctions, would promote the collapse of Russia’s willingness to fight.