UKRAINE, Feb. 2 — Over January, Russian forces occupied 245 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory, which is nearly twice less than area Russians occupied in December or November 2025, said the DeepState, an OSINT war monitoring group.

According to DeepState, Russians occupied 505 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory in November and 445 square kilometers in December.

The monitoring group said that the pace of assault activity on Russia’s side dropped by 4%. The Ukrainian soldiers noted that January was still a calmer month.

The Pokrovsk axis became the main target of Russian forces, 33% of all assaults took place there. The Huliaipole axis accounted for 21% of all Russian attacks, with the number of attacks increasing by 1.75 times.

Russians also attacked the Kostiantynivka (12% of attacks), Lyman (8%), and Oleksandrivka (8%) axes in January.

The DeepState noted that on the Sloviansk axis, 3% of assaults account for almost 20% of territorial losses.

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