After a forceful showing early in the war, Russia has lost a lot of the territory in Ukraine it once controlled.
However, Ukraine has also regained much of the territory Russia claimed during the early stages of theThe Institute for the Study of War think tank has thoroughly documented multiple stages of the conflict since its start and frequently updates a map of Ukraine that documents which territory is controlled by Russia.
ISW maps comparing Russian-controlled Ukrainian territory from March 2022 and July 2023. Russia still controls parts of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.Prior to Putin's invasion, Russia occupied approximately 16,000 square miles of Ukrainian territory, consisting of Crimea and parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. But in the early weeks of the war, Putin's forces made quick gains in the northeast and southern parts of Ukraine.
During these early days of the war, Russians even attempted to take over the country's capital, Kyiv but were ultimately thwarted in one of the first major signs of Ukraine's resistance.
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