Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Russian military forces currently control around 20 percent of Ukraine’s territory but added that “Ukrainian defense forces have liberated 1,017 localities till now”.
“Russian troops invaded 3,620 populated localities of Ukraine. 1,017 of them have already been liberated, another 2,603 need to be liberated. As of today, about 20 percent of our territory is controlled by the occupiers, almost 125,000 square km. It is much more than the area of all Benelux countries combined,” Zelensky said in his address in the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg.
At the same time, Zelensky noted that Russia had launched the war against Ukraine eight years ago. From 2014 to February 24, 2022, Russia controlled almost 43,000 square kilometers of Ukraine’s territory – Crimea and a third of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Zelensky added that currently about 300,000 square kilometers of Ukraine’s territory are contaminated with mines and unexploded ordnance.
Moreover, 12 million Ukrainians have become internally displaced persons and more than 5 million, mostly women and children, have left the country.
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