Ukrainian: War on maps – how negotiations are affected

Developments are now rapid on both the diplomatic level and on the front of the battles in the Ukraineas everything shows that the negotiations launched by 90 -minute telephone communication between the US president Donald Trump and to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putinare expected to start immediately.

As it became known and confirmed by official lips, The American delegation is already going to Saudi Arabiawhere the first live negotiations with the Russian side will take place, which will concern the effective resolution of the crisis, which has brought the planet to the boundaries of a global conflict for the last three years.

At the same time, battles on the war front are raging, with Russian troops being promoted deeper into Ukrainian territory. The rearrangements on the battle front, compared to the same period a year ago, are large and are reflected on comparative maps.

Developments on the war front constitute one of his loud papers Kremlinas the logic that tends to prevail, is the Russia Maintain the territories it has conquered, or most of them, which Ukraine is not willing to accept.

However, the pressure of the war, which takes a long time and Donald Trump’s decision to get America off the cost of the security of the European continent, give a clear advantage to Vladimir Putin, who will seek to end the war with the war. Larger strong profits for Russia, at all levels.

Russia is promoted to the east

In eastern Ukraine, Moscow’s war machine moves to Donbas, incorporating villages and cities into its control.

See how the front changed from 12 February 2024 to 12 February 2025

Experts at the Institute for the Study of War are waiting, if the battles continue, that the Russian forces will focus on occupation of Ukraine first -line cities during the winter. They recently occupied the city of Kourahove and continued to go northeast, to the city of Pokovsk.

The Russian advance to Pokrovsk is the most remarkable change in first -line control close to Donetsk For several months. Ukrainians resistance, however, and their smart tactics, using drones and ground forces, have caused significant losses of troops and equipment in Russia and slowed down the attack.

It took a year for the Russian troops to proceed about 40 kilometers west, but Ukraine was forced to retire from Avdiivkanorth of Donetsk, in February 2024 after months of battles.

Almost all of the population of Avdiivka, with more than 30,000 people, is gone and the city itself has been destroyed almost completely.

Russian invasion north of Kharkov

In addition to her business on the Eastern Front, the Russia launched operations to the north of Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkovin May 2024. Several villages were occupied and thousands of citizens fled.

The Russian impulse when the US did not supply weapons to Ukraine due to a deadlock in the US Congress resolved last April.

The Ukrainian forces have finally remained stable, and although the city of Harcovo has repeatedly taken missile attacks launched by Russian warplanes, it remains beyond the range of Russian artillery.

Ukraine proposes soil exchange

Eastern Ukraine has been the subject of questioning since 2014, when Russia -backed fighters occupied large areas of the East areas Donetsk and his Luhansk. It’s the so -called Donbas. OR Russia She had already understood the southern Crimean peninsula in February 2014 before annexing it to its territory.

THE Trump said it is unlikely or Ukraine Returning to its pre -2014 border, but, in response to a BBC question, he said that “some of these territories will return”.

In an interview with the Guardian, published on February 11, the president of Ukraine Volodimir Zelenski He suggested that the territories controlled by Russia in Ukraine could be replaced with territories that had occupied in Kursk, Russia in recent months as part of a peacekeeping agreement.

Ukraine occupied part of part of the area in a surprise attack that exhausted beyond the Ukrainian troops in August, moving up to 18 miles (30 kilometers) in the Russian region.

Nearly 200,000 people were removed from areas along the border from the Russian government, and Putin condemned the Ukrainian attack as a “major challenge”.

After two weeks, the Ukrainian Supreme Commander claimed to control more than 1,200 square kilometers of Russian territory and 93 villages.

Part of this territory has been recovered from Russia, but Ukraine still has troops in its area Kursk.

Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov described Zelenski’s proposal to exchange territories as “impossible”.

Three years of battle – How did the situation in Ukraine evolved

Russia’s invasion began with dozens of missile attacks on cities across Ukraine before the early morning of February 24, 2022.

The Russian land troops moved quickly and within a few weeks had control of large areas of Ukraine and had advanced to the suburbs of Kiev.

The Russian forces bombed Kharkov and occupied territories to the east and south to the peninsula and surrounded the port of Mariupol.

However, they encountered a very strong Ukrainian resistance on almost all fronts and faced serious logistical problems, as Russian troops with inadequate motivation suffered from food, water and ammunition.

Ukrainian forces also rushed to develop weapons from the West, such as the NLAW anti -tank system, which proved to be extremely effective against Russian advance.

By October 2022, the image had changed dramatically and, having failed to occupy Kiev, Russia was completely withdrawn from the north. The following month, the Ukrainian forces recaptured the southern city of Hersona.

Since then, the battle has been fought mainly in eastern Ukraine with Russian forces gaining ground slowly for many months. As for the casualties, at least 70,000 Russian troops are estimated to have been killed, while the injured are estimated at least 300,000.

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