{"id":454634,"date":"2026-05-25T12:07:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/05\/25\/in-calo-costante-da-novembre-2025-il-ritmo-dellavanzata-russa-su-tutto-il-fronte-ucraino\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T12:58:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:58:32","slug":"russian-advance-along-the-ukrainian-front-has-been-steadily-declining-since-november-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/05\/25\/russian-advance-along-the-ukrainian-front-has-been-steadily-declining-since-november-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian advance along the Ukrainian front has been steadily declining since November 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – In April 2026, the Russian army lost\u00a0116 km\u00b2 to Ukraine, the first negative monthly change recorded by the Institute for the Study of War<\/a> since the summer of 2023<\/strong>, when the territory controlled by Moscow hit its lowest point ever at 26,573 km\u00b2 following the Ukrainian counter-offensive. Since then, Russia has steadily regained ground, taking back control of around 19 per cent of Ukrainian territory \u2013 corresponding to over 36,000 km\u00b2 \u2013 with monthly gains exceeding 500 km\u00b2 between November and December 2025. The slowdown, however, was already visible in the preceding months: from 319 km\u00b2 captured in January 2026, the figure had fallen to 123 in February and just 23 in March, before the reversal in April.\u00a0Data analysis\u00a0by ISW reveals that the pace of Russia\u2019s advance across the entire front has been steadily declining since November 2025<\/strong>, due to continuous Ukrainian ground counter-offensives, Ukrainian medium-range missiles, the ban imposed in February 2026 on the use of Starlink terminals by Russian forces in Ukraine, and the Kremlin\u2019s crackdown on Telegram \u2013 factors that have exacerbated the existing critical issues within the Russian army.<\/p>\n

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ISW uses three categories to measure the territory under Russian control. The first is controlled territory<\/strong>: an area falls into this category only when Russian forces exercise a stable physical influence over it, sufficient to prevent its use by the enemy or to ensure the conditions for their own operations. This is a precise doctrinal definition borrowed from US military manuals and does not include areas merely traversed or contested. The second category is that of advances:<\/strong> areas where Russian forces have operated or launched attacks, but over which they have not yet established effective control. These correspond roughly to the zones lying within the line of contact \u2013 that is, the boundary between the opposing forces \u2013 but which have not yet been consolidated. There is a third category<\/strong> not included in the count: Russian infiltration<\/strong>. These are missions in which Russian units penetrate Ukrainian positions without establishing lasting control of the terrain. These areas are mapped separately because the level of control exercised is significantly lower than in the territory that has been conquered. If we take these situations into account, Russia does not show any net territorial losses \u2014 but it must be noted that these are operations designed to give the impression of territorial control, even though, in reality, they are missions carried out in \u201cgrey zones\u201d.<\/div>\n

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In April 2026, the Russian military lost 116 km\u00b2: this is the first monthly decline recorded by the Institute for the Study of War since the summer of 2023, when the territory controlled by Moscow had reached an all-time low of 26,573 km\u00b2 following Kyiv\u2019s counter-offensive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7912,"featured_media":454614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30809,25712],"tags":[34208,34209,34210,26319,31897,25803,34211,30548,30781],"class_list":["post-454634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-security","category-general-news","tag-avanzata","tag-fronte","tag-institute-for-the-study-of-war","tag-kiev-en-2","tag-mosca-en-2","tag-russia-in-2","tag-territorio","tag-ukraine-in-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454639,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454634\/revisions\/454639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}