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The Russian military has liberated around 40% of the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) occupied by Kiev over the past six months, leaving Ukrainian forces in control of roughly 15–17% of the region, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.
Kiev’s troops were forced to retreat from large swathes of the territory in the face of a Russian offensive throughout much of 2025. Russian forces took dozens of settlements in the DPR and the neighboring Zaporozhye Region, both of which joined Russia in 2022, and made advances in Ukraine’s Kharkov, Sumy, and Dnepropetrovsk Regions last year.
On Tuesday, speaking at a meeting with the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, Putin said that Russian officials had estimated six months ago that Kiev controlled around 25% of the DPR’s territory. Recent reports now place the figure at between 15% and 17%, he noted…
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