In February, Russia occupied 50% less territories of Ukraine than over January, though conducted nearly as much assaults

UKRAINE, Mar. 2 — Russia occupied 126 km² (48.6 mi²) of Ukrainian territories in January, which is half as much as in February, reported DeepState, an OSINT monitoring group that maintains a war tracking map for the Russia-Ukraine war. 

DeepState noted that the number of Russian assaults didn’t lower: in February, they conducted 4% less assaults than in January. “Less people began to engage in (Russian) assault operations, though,” they added. 

Russian troops led the most assaults on Pokrovsk (31%), Huliai Pole (21%), Kostiantynivka (13%), and Lyman axis (7%), DeepState said. 

Analysts say the majority of Russian advances were recorded in the Pokrovsk direction (32%). 23% of Russian advances were recorded near Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, 21% near Kostiantynivka, and 7% in Sumy oblast. 

Over January, Russian forces occupied 245 km² of Ukrainian territory. 

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