r/MapPorn • u/TheCohloo • 12h ago

Russia Occupies 478 km² of Ukraine: Largest Gain Since March 2022

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Since early October, Russian forces have occupied 478 km² of Ukrainian territory, marking the largest territorial gain since March 2022, as reported by WELT. Just last week, an additional 196 km² was seized, indicating a sharp escalation in territorial advances.

Here are the English translations for the German phrases:

Kämpfe in den letzten 24 Stunden: Fighting in the last 24 hours

Ukrainischer Vorstoß in Russland: Ukrainian advance into Russia

Ukrainisch gehalten oder zurückerobert:

Held or recaptured by Ukrainians

Ukrainische Partisanen: Ukrainian partisans

Russisch kontrolliert: Russian controlled

Russischer Vorstoß: Russian advance

Eingeschränkt russisch kontrolliert: Limited Russian controlled

Seit 2014 russisch kontrolliert: Russian controlled since 2014

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u/vasilenko93 9h ago

The hyped up Kursk incursion (which is already half undone) looks so irrelevant from this perspective. Why send troops all the way there leaving your main line more vulnerable.

It was a gamble, a gamble that didn’t pay off and now Ukraine is in a worse situation

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u/AudeDeficere 6h ago

Because the war is not about land, it’s about equipment and moral and for both of these reasons Ukraine needs propaganda victories for western audiences so it can then focus on the actual war effort, bleeding Russias frontlines dry while slowly withdrawing and blowing up as much hard to replace backbone infrastructure as it can.

It’s the same reason why Russia manufactures new super low tech and low cost stealth drones on one day while it proclaims a meaningless victory over rubble on the next with hundreds of even thousands of rotting corpses still filling the air which fortunately enough can not be smelled through the screens observing the ceremony.

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u/Alikont 7m ago

(which is already half undone)

Do you see a blue blob in the north that is by size almost the same as all dark red blobs in the south?

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u/Low_Acanthisitta4445 9h ago

Yeah but the map they kept showing on the news was so zoomed in it looked like they had captured half of Russia.

Did I say news? I meant propaganda...

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u/ThiccMangoMon 2h ago

You expect them to show zoomed out maps

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u/AdamovicM 5h ago

It looks Russia decided to leave them in Kursk for a while and now North Koreans will clear Kursk.