UKRAINE, Sep 1 — In August, the pace of Russian offensive dropped by 18%, occupying another 454 square kilometers in Ukraine, reported DeepState, an OSINT war monitoring group. 

Over July, Russian troops seized 564 square kilometers of Ukrainian territories, with the entire occupied land amounting to 19% of the country.

“The last time when Russians got the same results was in October 2022, before the Ukrainian army’s offensive in Dudchany in Kherson Oblast,” said DeepState back then.

The monitoring group noted that the increase in Russian-occupied territories over 2 years and 11 months is practically zero. “But we also can say that we lost as much territory in eastern Ukraine as we liberated on the right bank of Kherson Oblast during the same period.”

In Aug, DeepState recorded the biggest advances on the Novopavlivka (38% from all occupied territories) axis in the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Pokrovsk (19%) and Lyman (27%) axes in the Donetsk region.

The most active Russians were in the Novopavlivka (16% of all assaults) axis in Dnipropetrovsk region, the Pokrovsk (33%) and Lyman (17%) axes in Donetsk region, and the Sumy (7%) axis.

The monitoring group noted that Russians occupied 0.4% of territories on the Kupiansk axis with 5% of all assault activities across the frontline.

On Sep 1, Russian forces attacked 10 times on Ukrainian positions north of Kharkiv and conducted 10 attacks on the Kupiansk axis.

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