The red line indicates the front line as of January 1, 2025.

From January 1, 2025 to December 13, 2025, Russia captured 5,400 km² of territory.

Posted by Levstr1

30 Comments

  1. At this rate… it will take them another 90 years to finish UA. UA should withdraw very gradually, while inflicting as much pain on RU as it can with a very high kill ratio. RU will break.

  2. AverageNPCRedditor on

    Honestly, at this point it looks like russia is gonna economically collapse before they even capture the Donetsk Oblast. The losses on the russian side for just these territories are insane.

  3. Does this include Ukraine’s successful counterattack at Kupiansk this week?

    Russia claims it captured the city in November but President Zelenskyy visited Kupiansk and took selfies which were geolocated just 2 km from Russian lines.

    [https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/hello-from-kupiansk-zelenskys-selfie-from-ukrainian-city-as-russia-claims-control-9802434](https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/hello-from-kupiansk-zelenskys-selfie-from-ukrainian-city-as-russia-claims-control-9802434)

    There are just 200 Russians left in Kupiansk and they are surrounded.

  4. People might poke fun at “low progress” but besides Ukrainian manpower and economic issues, a potentially big problem is that the terrain behind the Kramatorsk-Sloviansk fortified belt is a mostly empty field all the way to large cities like Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro and Kharkiv, and it would be harder to defend compared to heavy urban areas.

  5. Shot-Performance-494 on

    You can literally see and count the individual farmers fields they captured, what a pathetic rate of return for the Russians

  6. hdhsizndidbeidbfi on

    One thing I don’t see people talk about enough is Zaporozhia. Even if the front moves are the same pace as it has for the past few years Russia will be able to force mass evacuations from one of Ukraine’s largest cities in a year at the rate they’re going in Zaporozhia.

    This is why I really don’t think surrendering the rest of the Donbass is as bad of a deal as people say

  7. Gee I got downvoted HARD when this thing started saying this could last years

    Reddit experts all saying Russia have no hope and itll all be over soon

  8. Posts like these about slow Russian advance remind me of that German WW2 propaganda poster about slow advance of Allies in Italy.

  9. AgencyElectronic2455 on

    This map is inaccurate and minimizes the already minimal Russian advance. The entire area SE of Lyman has been taken by the Russians in 2025

  10. Russia looks like they’re actively surrounding Lyman and Kostiantynvika to try to capture them.

  11. People making fun of the progress seem to forget how war of attrition works. It tends to work at snail pace, until one moment where one side simply can’t push against any longer and collapses.

    Hopefully it doesn’t happen before peace is achieved, but people really need to look into past war of attrition. WW1 was a good example.