According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russia currently controls about 20 percent of Ukraine. The front line stretches over 1,000 kilometers, says Selenski in a video address in the Luxembourg Parliament.
“That’s much more than the entire Benelux area.” Benelux stands for Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The front line is more than 1000 kilometers long. “Imagine that!” Almost the entire Donbass, one of the largest industrial centers in Europe, was also destroyed in eastern Ukraine. Tens of thousands of people were killed in the Russian war of aggression.
Russian troops marched into a total of 3,620 towns in Ukraine, 1,017 of which were liberated, Zelensky said. “Another 2,603 will still be freed.” Twelve million Ukrainians are fleeing within the country; five million abroad, the president said before the 100th day of the war this Friday. Russia has already lost more than 30,000 soldiers, Zelenskyy claimed. Western experts doubt there are that many.
The head of state also noted that Ukraine has been at war with Russia since 2014. At that time, the country annexed the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea and has been supporting the pro-Russian separatists in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions ever since. Ukraine is struggling to prevent these contested regions from being completely wrested from its control. Russian troops are also occupying the southern Ukrainian region of Cherson and parts of the Zaporizhia region. Zelenskyy stressed that his country would not give up the fight against the invaders. “We have stopped and partially pushed back the invading army, which was once considered the second strongest in the world.”