In March 2025, Russian Forces Gained Less Ground in Ukraine than in Any Month Since June 2024, the Agentstvo News Agency Says

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Mar. 31 – Moscow’s claims that Russian forces are advancing in Ukraine and that Ukrainian ones are retreating have been so widely broadcast that many fail to recognize the reality that Russia’s invasion gained only 130 square kilometers in the last month, down from a high of 725 last November and the least since June 2024 when Russia seized 114.
    Those figures, originally gathered by the Deep State analysts, are presented in a charge published by the Agentstvo news agency, a group of independent journalists in the Russian Federation (agents.media/v-marte-rossiya-zahvatila-v-ukraine-samuyu-malenkuyu-territoriyu-s-iyunya-proshlogo-goda-vopreki-zayavleniyam-putina/).
    The numbers from the past month parallel those from March 2024 and suggest that Ukraine is holding its own despite Russian claims and despite a reduction in the amount of arms transferred to Kyiv by Western powers. If this seasonal pattern holds, so should Ukraine’s front lines until at least August.  
    Moreover, at the current rate, it would take Russian forces many years before occupying all of its neighbor