Black Bird Group
@Black_BirdGroup · Finland · joined 14 Aug 2022
Security & Conflict Analysis NGO. Eyes on the Russian military and the war in Ukraine. contact(at)https://t.co/ieyvX2rlLn Map on our website
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According to our data, in August the net gains of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine were approximately 133km².
Russian gains are slowly increasing again, but their gains remain extremely limited. Russian gains are a far cry of those from last year.
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@Black_BirdGroup You should also post a version of that graph without the total occupied area beginning at 110k. Just to give a better perception of what we're actually talking about in the grand scheme of things. I get why one is needed starting at that point, but so is one from
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As in July: it's possible that the lack of results on the battlefield and the deepening economic costs of the war will bring Russia to the negotiation table.
However, currently there is no clear indication of renewed Russian interest in good faith negotiations. 8/8
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However, mobilization would incur a significant political cost to the Russian leadership, and thus would not materialise before the legislative elections in mid-September.
Signals from within Russia remain mixed and it's possible that a final decision has not yet been made.
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As in July, the Russian options for escalation remain limited.
Most likely option is a mobilization of forces to offset Russias struggling recruitment.
This could give Russia enough manpower to form new units and threathen new areas of the UA-RU border.
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In the big picture: Russia has largely ran out of options on the battlefield. Significant operational developments are currently extremely unlikely.
With their economy struggling due to Ukraine's long-range campaign, it's likely that Russia will attempt to escalate the war.
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Although July saw the fastest advance for the Russians since January, there still isn't any offensive momentum.
The data shows that over the year of 2026 Russia has lost much of its previous advantages, but Ukraine hasn't managed to turn this into reliable gains either.
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In the border areas, the Russians have expanded their infiltration operations into the Kharkiv and Sumy oblasts.
These operations take advantage of the spread out Ukrainian lines but are unlikely to create significant issues for Ukraine in the near term.
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Most of the Russian gains were made in Northern Donetsk West of Siversk, where the Russian 3CAA is pushing towards Kramatorsk.
Limited gains were also made east of Kostyantinivka, where nearly all of the city is now in the grey zone, and near Huliaipole.
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According to our data, in July the net gains of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine were approximately 106km².
This is the fastest Russian advance since January, but their gains remain extremely limited. In July of 2025 the Russians captured nearly 5 times as much territory.
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According to our data, in June the net gains of the Russian armed forces in Ukraine were approximately minus 9km².
This is the second net-negative month for the Russians in 2026. Before this, the previous net-negative months (within Ukraine) were in 2023.
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According to our data, in May the net gains of the Russian armed forces were approximately 82km².
Despite their advance in Kostyantinivka, the Russian forces are struggling to regain offensive momentum amidst instensifying Ukrainian mid-range strikes and local counterattacks.
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@Black_BirdGroup No idea what is the x-axis, it says “month” but what month? You can label x-axes also, just like y-axis, you know.
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And here is a fixed graph with months correctly labelled.
We encountered issues exporting the graph to PNG that we did not catch before publication.
Sorry for the inconvenience. https://t.co/AHT8btLHSN
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While the Russian gains are falling behind last years pace of advance, it's likely that they will intensify their operations over the summer months.
It's likely that the Russian goals remain largely unchanges, with main operational focus on the capture of Donetsk oblast.
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Significant part of the Russian gains were also made on the Kharkiv and Sumy borders where it made multiple over-the-border incursions and expanded existing ones.
However, the incursions are currently not likely to pose a large scale operational threat to Ukraine.
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Large scale expansion of operations in these areas would require the shifting of Russian forces away from the current main directions of attack.
Instead these cross-border operations are likely meant to fix UA forces and pursue Putin's promise of a border security zone.
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According to our data, in April the net gains of the Russian armed forces were approximately 94km².
Russian offensive attempts continue to struggle, while the frontline on the southern front has largely consolidated after the Hulijaipole offensive of February and March.
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Russian forces advanced piecemeal on the Slovyansk, Pokrovsk and Kostyantinivka sectors and regained some lost positions in the Huliaipole area.
Ukrainian counterattacks made tactical gains on Luhansk, Lyman and Zaporizhzhia sectors.
Grey zones are expanding on all sectors.
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