According to DeepState, from 1 to 31 March, Russian troops took 133 sq mi of Ukrainian territory — the lowest score since June 2024.
According to experts, the offensive has begun to run out in the winter, and the situation we are seeing now consists of respective factors. Ukraine managed to slow down the attack of the Russian army thanks to innovative tactics.
"Kreml expects United States to turn a blind eye"
Since July last year, the pace of advancement of the Russian army in Ukraine has grown with all period and peaked in November. Russia then occupied 725 square kilometers.
In December, Russian armed forces occupied 401 sq mi of Ukrainian territory, 321 square km in January and 189 square km in February. In particular, it released the Russian offensive on the town of Pokrowsk in the Donetsk Oblast, which was 1 of the most visible in fresh months.
According to the BBC, but besides according to Ukrainian soldiers themselves, Ukraine manages to halt Russians thanks to skillfully combining the usage of drones and ground troops. This approach greatly increased the losses of the Russian army in armored vehicles.
According to DeepState, the low rate of Russian troops' attack in March does not mean that a truce with Ukraine will take place. Offensive actions proceed in respective directions simultaneously.
Russia has besides taken almost the full territory, which Ukraine occupied in the Kursk Oblast.
This does not change the fact that Russia cannot show crucial advancement in another sections of the front. Meanwhile, Putin, who confidently claims that Russian troops have a strategical initiative “all along the line of contact”, tries to hold talks with the US about the ceasefire in Ukraine. He said the Russian army occupied 99 percent of the Luhansk region, as well as more than 70% of the Donetsk, Zaporosian and Khersonian regions.
As Putin said on 28 March, Russia "progressively, not as rapidly as any would like to" aims to accomplish the targets of the military operation, and the Ukrainian people should realise this.
According to sources, The Moscow Times Kremlin expects the United States to either turn a blind eye to Russia's further offensive, or put force on the Kievs to completely retreat from Russia's occupied circuits.
Evgeniy Maletka/Associated Press/East News / East NewsUkrainian soldier from the Azov brigade on the front line (picture)
In late March, Putin himself made it clear to business representatives during the closed part of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs' legislature that a swift peaceful resolution of the conflict with Ukraine was not expected.
According to the Russian paper “Kommersant” Putin said that if Kiev did not consider Crimea and 4 “new regions” to be Russian, Russia will launch an offensive against Odessa and another Ukrainian territories.
Expert: respective factors influenced the slowdown of the Russian attack
Analyst of the defence Express Analyst Serhij Zgurec claims that weather conditions and crucial losses of Russians affected the slow down of the Russian attack.
— DeepState made a strategical analysis of enemy progress. Indeed, in March the enemy managed to occupy 133 sq km of Ukrainian territory. This is the lowest score since the summertime of 2024. There is another aspect — the failure of occupiers. That's over 40,000 people. If we calculate the ratio of territories occupied by the enemy to its losses, March can be considered as the period of the top enemy losses in over a year and a half of warfare," said an expert in a conversation with Espreso TV.
Analyst noted that a fresh phase of increased warfare is now beginning.
— The advancement of the enemy has slowed down and there are respective reasons for this. In particular, it is hard to conduct combat operations in winter. The enemy's advancement was besides affected by the crucial exhaustion of occupiers in many areas. Now a fresh intensification of war activities begins, after any regrouping of the enemy," added Zgurec.
